perth-guide

thornlie often gets a bad rap, because of the east side of spencer road, but as long as you are buying west of spencer road closer to forest lakes it's actually really nice. close to schools, shopping centres and it's own train line to the city thornlie is one of the few places in perth you can buy a 600sqrm+ block with a 3x1 for $350k without the surrounding street looking like a ghetto.
avoid buying along yale road or spencer road. simply don't do it if you want to live there it's not worth it. there's also a fair amount of homes west around but from experience you can usually pick the bad ones - lots of homes west out there are just grandma and grandpa. i lived in thornlie for 4 years and never had a problem. you do get a little aircraft noise but it never bothered me and i'm a light sleeper, buying back further to forest lakes will almost eliminate the aircraft noise.