phoebebuffet

Have lived here for past 2+ years with our young growing family and have really enjoyed the proximity to amenities and services - there’s so much on our doorstep within a 20 min drive. We hardly need to venture out of the region. Nice local parks with modern playgrounds all within walking distance of one another, including Keeley Park, playground in the Jackson Green estate and the First Street Reserve. Walking/Bike trail along the sky rail line is nice and well used by people in the region. We often walk up to Clayton (centre road) shops and back from our house in Clayton South along this path with the kiddos on a nice day. Takes us 40 mins or so round trip (based on a leisurely walk including browsing / food purchasing time spent at the shops!).

When purchasing a place we centred our focus on the housing pockets north of the train line / south of centre road, and also west of main road (south of the train line). We felt the inner residential streets in these pockets in particular had a nicer feel to them than some other parts of Clayton South which have a fair amount of older style multi unit development (less likely to be redeveloped anytime soon). Never had any safety/crime issues in our pocket where we live, and we have established a little community of friendly neighbours (all with young professional families too) who we now call our friends.

With M-city now complete, early plans for a new suburban rail loop super hub station at Clayton, and Clayton shopping strip slowly gentrifying we expect the area to only improve in the coming years.