manoflettuce

Clarinda is located south of Centre Road, below Oakleigh South. At first sight this is a quiet peaceful area with quite a number of lovely streets and properties in and of themselves. HOWEVER... a few problems soon become apparent. The area is not well served by public transport. In fact there's just a bus that runs along Bourke Road and is of limited usefulness. Second, the suburb lies in the path of a huge overhead power line corridor, meaning lots of huge and very ugly electric towers dotting the suburb. Odds are that you will probably have a view of these from your house should you live here. And third - and this is the BIG one that drove us out in the end - the suburb is completely surrounded by garbage tips. This has become a huge problem with foul smells invading the whole suburb in the last couple of years and it does get to the point that you dread opening the doors/windows because of the rotting gabage smell that would hit you and penertate into your home. They say there has been a improvement recently that its not so much of a problem any more but in the end its a question of how much you trust burocrats to keep the landfill operators in line and accountable.