Sarah D

Lived in the area for 14 years. It was great to start with, early 2000's but then the new subdivisions started. We built and moved out to one of the subdivisions and it was terrible. Our neighbours reported our dog for barking which was strange as he didn't when I was at home. We then went away on holiday and the house sitter found the grumpy old git stirring him up with a torch at midnight so the dog would bark. We were reported to the ranger. Thankfully the ranger saw what a twit the neighbours were and didn't do anything. On another occasion a neighbour tried to jump our fence, yelling at one of the kids. Dont quite know what he was going to do when he got in the backyard. Had to squirt him with the hose to get him off the fence. In the end, the excessive chin wagging got to us (our kids couldn't even play at the park without adults asking what they are up to). We are so much happier living away from the area now and have no intention of driving through the place ever again. It was horrible. We are lucky that our kids received an academic scholarship to a school in Perth and our neighbours up here are lovely. Funnily enough, they say there is a great sense of community in the country but we didn't find it at all, just bitchiness.