sara70

We relocated from Sydney to Melbourne last year and had no idea about any of the Melb suburbs. My husband had been transferred to La Trobe University for work so we looked at suburbs in the surrounding areas and found a lovely home at Watsonia....what a little gem of a suburb!
We are within walking distance of the train station and bus stops, there is a wondeful strip of shops opposite the station which have everything :a petrol station, IGA store, 3 chemists, cafes, bakeries, florist, pet store, pizza joints, chinese restaurant, newsagent, greengrocer, butcher, charcoal chicken shop, fish and chip shops, post office and the local library is next to the station....you name it Watsonia has it.
The streets are wide, quiet and leafy and in our street there is a wonderful mix of families and retirees, there is only one rental property in the whole street. When we moved in we had neighbours from five houses turn up on or doorstep with a welcome gift or an invite to their house.
There are great local public, Catholic and private schools and of course La Trobe Uni and RMIT at Bundoora ( a few minutes drive away).
We are so pleased we found this quiet little suburb tucked between the larger ,busier suburbs of Greensborough and Bundoora...it's almost like a little village complete with friendly locals.

We lived in Underwood Rd for 10 years, before, during and after the 2000 Olympic Games.
The local govt has spent lots of money on beautifying the street and surrounding area which is wonderful but they can't do anything about the thousands of trucks and cars which rumble down the street all day and night. The trucks would start flying down our street at about 4.30 each morning and not stop until about 9.30 each night. The weekends were a little better but then we had all the people driving to the Olympic Park and Bicentennial park for picnics etc. It was not uncommen for us to have trucks parked across our driveway at any hour of the day or night as the truckies stopped to buy a burger or to have a nap, it drove me crazy when I would go to take the kids to school and there was a huge big rig parked across the driveway with no sign of the driver. It is perhaps not a bad street if you lived in a townhouse at the back of the block otherwise a very noisy place to live.

Greg Norman Crescent is generally thought of as the best street in the Parkwood International Estate.We bought our home about 6 years ago and love it. The street is quiet, friendly, clean and the homes are all beautifully looked after, there would only be a handfull of rental properties in the whole street. The street is so safe that I have no problems allowing my kids to play on the street as there are usually several kids riding their bikes or playing on the street on weekends or after school and there is virtually no drive through traffic as there is no need to drive through the street unless you live here.The homes in the street are all quite large, beautifully maintained and built on very large blocks of land. Our home overlooks the golf course which is one of the best public courses on the coast.The view over the golf course is beautiful and we have lots of wildlife living on the course.
I would highly recommend Greg Norman Cres to anyone looking at living in the Parkwood area.