Mel has been busy house hunting and exploring new areas. We saw one together on Monday and put in an application to rent it. It's in an area called Malvern East.
It's a big 5 bedroom/2 bathroom with a huge backyard. It's a nice area:
- 10 minute walk to the train
- the train ride in from there will be under 30 minutes
- there is a park at the end of the street.
- groceries, restaurants, and small shops are within 10 minute walk
- there is a big mall in walking distance.
Mel found a town house that was near new and perfect inside, but has no yard, in an area called Bentleigh. However, it is:
- very very close to shops, basically the main street is 2 minutes away
- train is also 2 minutes away
- train ride in from there will be around 40 minutes
- 40 minute walk to the beach.
- House is stunning inside and we would have a big basement for kids to play.
Friday we went out with our relocation specialist and saw another 5 or 6 properties. There was one we saw that is a good middle ground between the two mentioned above. Its in a place called Camberwell.
- Interior is fairly new and nice
- Medium sized front and back yards.
- In a very suburbar area where kids can play on the street
- 5 minute walk to train and park
- 30 minute train ride to city
- 15 - 20 minute walk to groceries, restaurants, and shops
Only issue with this one is the area. Its a bit further to shopping and stuff then the
other two. Lots of parks though. We are going to go there tomorrow and walk around a bit more to get a better feel for the area before submitting an application on this one as well.
I think we will likely end up with one of these three. I think we would be happy in any one of the three, but it's a tough call between the three of them as they all offer different perks. The beach and shops vrs a yard vrs the perfect house.
It will be great to get this settled so we can move on the getting moved in and start spending our free time seeing the sights instead of houses. After checking out all three links give us your opinion in the poll or just leave a comment.
3 comments:
Hey guys, looks like most people are liking the 3rd option!
Here's our quick synopsis of the three:
1 - you spend more time in the bathroom than you think and you'll get sick of them really quick. What's an extra 10 minute walk the few times a week you go to the shops to have nice bathrooms every day? I spent a week in you bathroom here because it needed some freshening up - why go back?
2 - Let me wipe the drool off of the keyboard...o.k. As much as I love the work done in this place, we think that no matter how big your house is, both you and the kids are gonna want to go outside and play at some point. Again, 10 extra minutes for a back yard...well worth it.
3 - go ahead and move in. :0)
In our opinion...no offence taken if you guys feel different.:)
Good luck guys!
Andre and Julie
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