wope
Reviews
"Terrible suburb cant wait to leave!"
We have lived her for just over 3 years and whilst we have a beautiful house & property in a nice quiet court, once you leave this court it all goes downhill! Half the people living in Mooroolbark don't seem to care about their properties at all, many are run down, lawns never mowed, gardens never touched, old cars dumped, rubbish etc. The council areas are just as bad and are never maintained. As for the shopping, the Coles would have to be the worst I have ever been too. Have had to make several complaints to head office due to "off" meat they are selling! Mobile phone reception is terrible with 3 or Vodaphone. Mooroolbark was rated to have the most takeaways shops in the eastern suburbs which I find disgusting, proves my point that many people in this suburb are lazy! The only good thing is the house prices have increased in the last 3 years so we will soon be able to sell and move to a nicer area.
Who lives here?
- Singles
I agree with wope. I lived in Mooroolbark ( on Manchester rd ) for 5 years. 5 years to long as I could not wait to leave. surfer - you take a nice push bike ride and go through the local park and see young teenages with needles up their arm's and they don't care about anything going on around them, Sad. The graffiti, and people smashing open you're car at night to get a few dollars out of the console. Sad. Mooroolbark was a wonderful suburb 15 years ago - just like Croydon where I grew up. Now - they are drug ridden, feral & dangerous.
Im pleased to say we are getting out of this shit hole! Just sold our house! 90 more sleeps! Mooroolbark has deteriorated even more since my original review! Lazy council too, nothing is maintained anymore just take a look at the 5 ways round abouts! Can't even put my washing outside anymore due to the dope smoking bogans next door!
I really think it depends on what part of Mooroolbark you're talking about and Mooroolbark is big. I believe near the station is bad, but if you look at the northern side near Maroondah Highway & Chirnside Park it's just beautiful. I haven't lived here personally but I know people who have and having looked for a new house myself, that has been my observation.
Funny! People on the Brice Ave side think that the other side of Mooroolbark isn't the place to be. Too hilly, and unlike the 1960's estate have the smaller blocks. With more bike tracks on the Brice Ave side and another 7.4 Million injected with newer pedestrian lights on Cambridge Road it's all perspective. Nock down and rebuild is the ticket.
Oh Please!!! Are you sure you are living in Mooroolbark? Your description sounds more like a lot of Western Suburbs areas, such as Broadmeadows, Sunshine,Deer Park,Cambellfield and suburbs like that. I live in Croydon and my daughter lives in Mooroolbark. We both own our own homes, so understand the disgust one can encounter when traveling through this kind of area you have described. But this description you have spoken about is DEFINITELY NOT Mooroolbark. I have never come across a home in Mooroolbark that looks the way you describe. I'm with Vodaphone and so is my daughter and all of her friends. We have never once experienced bad mobile phone reception.
You whole spiel about Mooroolbark is complete and utter nonsense.