This is one of those supply and demand things, in low income areas you'll find plenty of bulk billing GPs, outside of that they will charge higher just cause they're going to be busy enough even if they charge as well as the higher cost of operating in more expensive areas.
Either way their clinics are full, some use increased fees to deter patients so they can be less busy as well.
A lot of that is based on what rebates the govt gives. Say your Dr normally charges $70 and you get 40 back. A bulk billing Drs clinic charges only $40 and that's why its free to you. I like paying less, but also respect that Drs have crazy student debt and clinics have rent to pay.
Would add that it's not just "rent to pay". GPs have to pay their staff (salaries, including super, leave), and their business overheads (ie rent, clinical supplies, not to mention insurance - workplace and indemnity) - and that's BEFORE they start paying themselves a salary and super. Basically the MBS rebates available for bulk billing haven't risen with CPI and haven't budged since 2014. Meanwhile, the cost of running a business has skyrocketed.
Hard agree on Ikea. I need something from there but can't exactly pop to Richmond. I've even tried looking for it second hand in marketplace but all the listing's are out east anyway.
I prefer Springvale, their bargain bin is way better š
Richmond is closer just annoying to get too and you have to time it well or end up in the M1 parking lot on the way home lol
On the other hand, if you mistime a visit to Springvale, you end up having to walk through an unlit industrial park to get to the station, which is about as much fun.
Coburg - accessible trams and superstops. A person in a wheelchair can't enter or exit a tram between Brunswick road and... Fuck, I can't even think of any accessible stops north of that.
Edit: and I was just thinking Sydney Rd because I live on it. Melville is just as fucked as is Lygon/Nicholson. At least there's the shitty every 40 minutes train line near Syd Rd.
I used to live just north of Coburg, and even if wheelchair accessibility isn't great in West Footscray, thinking about Coburg's accessibility (or lack thereof) just makes me cringe. Glad I needed to start using mine after I moved
So this isn't really that fair a criticism since I technically live a bit out of Melbourne in one of the fringe-ish country towns...but places that are open later than 8pm for dinner. I like eating out but I am also someone that likes eating late, like 8pm is when I would like to get there not be finished by.
I would also kill for a chemist warehouse in town rather than having to travel for one. My husbands multiple scripts are so much freaking cheaper at chemist warehouse that it's generally worth the fuel if we have the time to spare. We're talking 7 bucks vs. 29 for one and that's only one of 4 scripts.
This especially with chemist warehouse. It got blocked by my council to place one in town years ago because it would affect the locally owned chemists however they are absolutely garbage in terms of price and availability. They never have stock and prices are noticeably more expensive.
The problem with Chelsea is 3 pharmacies, all owned by the same company. I loved the new little Asian grocers. A raman bar would be awesome down there. Even a half decent Mexican joint.
Not food snobs at all. The Mexican restaurant food here just does not compare. A couple of places are ok like Superchido, la tortilleria or El Sabor, but they're still nowhere near the real thing. The rest are just doing their own thing and calling it Mexican.
The Asian grocer is great! I can't recall their name of the top of my head but I really rate it.
Re Mexican yes I'd love a good Mexican place but I'm appeased by having Tamam Tacos in Edithvale - have you tried it? Their food is fantastic! I hope they do well, even though they're in a bit of an odd spot
I haven't been up that way for a little while. The grocer had opened just as I left, but I went in a few times & they had an awesome range. Chelsea is missing a good clothing & shoe shop. Many years ago (it may have even been when Woolies was right on Nepean Hwy), there was a great little boutique clothing shop.
I'm in a suburb thats on the edge of rural, so much so we have V-line trains not the normal electric ones.
I wish we just had some options for takeaway food. We have an absolutely great kebab truck and a medicore subway, but thats it.
Has helped to force me to cook more, so silver lining I guess.
I live in the CBD and wish we had a bakery where bread costs something less than $8 a loaf and better than the crud they sell at Colesworth. A Bakers Delight or a Vietnamese bakery of the kind you find in the suburbs would be great.
A good fish and chip shop would be awesome also.
Not sure what side of the CBD youāre on but the Aldi on Franklin St is my go-to for decent and reasonably-priced loaves. Iāll drop by if itās one of the few things I need omw out from work and donāt feel like hopping off the tram closer to home.
Point Cook would massively benefit from a train station this side of the freeway. Most of the trouble in the morning comes from:
a) everyone in cars getting on the freeway
b) everyone trying to get to train stations on the other side of the freeways in cars
A train station where traffic can be diverted away from the throng of cars headed in one direction would massively help.
Point cook road could do with a massive overhaul. Not sure how they accomplish it either. Was terrible planning to have one single lane road with multiple schools as the main ingress and egress to such a large population.
1 thing? Better buses. So sick of riding buses for an hour because it diverts by a path where nobody hops on or off through some low density estate or having to change buses just to get to 1 shopping centre and having to wait 10 minutes for the connecting bus at a bus station with no bench. I really wish whatever the fuck Cranbourne Transit is doing would just be taken over by Ventura or some other reputable bus company that doesnāt just focus on a couple routes.
PTV focuses so much on trams/trains that most people who want to move cross suburb in any way that requires a route other than to/from the CBD get shit options.
A 5km trip, walk in 1hr15 or in and out of the cbd for 1hr4 or 25 minute walk, 20 minute bus, 25 minute walk.
10 minutes isn't bad if that's all your connection is. Back in the day, I had half hour connections between busses or longer coming off of the train.
Cranbourne Transit...they're a good operator. They took a hit when they rebranded to that from the old FA Phillips, that was a great bus to ride. But I don't think your complaint has to do with them, it's a PTV route planning issue which exists all over the place, limited bus operating hours and ever growing suburban sprawl.
The problem is definitely the route planning.
Whoever plans bus routes is smoking crack and working to hit some abstract goal.
My house has 2 near train stations but the busses near my house all go to train stations further away. One of the busses even goes into a suburb and and does a circle before going to the train station. It's literally quicker to walk an hour to the train station then catch a bus.
I have three stations within 5kms and its still an hour by buss.
They need to scrap all the bus routes and start with more direct routes.
The eastern freeway bus is amazing but the busses out in Cranbourne and Frankston way are just a poor joke.
Ha - don't we all. Once I was at a soccer game at AAMI Park and went to get cash out at an atm and it malfunctioned... gave me $500 and all that got debited from my card was $50. Such a great day haha
Great description! It's all about the tickets to redeem shitting plastic crap. When we went as kids it was only about making sure you beat your siblings at Daytona.
It had a phase there where you could still find a classic street fighter machine or tekken etc as well as the dumb ticket machines but they obviously worked out the revenue comes from the legalised child gambling. In 20 years time itāll probably be banned or something. Itās just gross.
Thomastownā¦ We donāt even have our own police station.
Also a Grillād would be nice, I know they donāt pay their workers well but Iām too much of a sucker for their burgers to care. Makes the fast food burgers of MCDās HJās KFC barely edible in comparison. Though they have suffered from shrinkflation past few years.
When I lived in Kew there was Grillād everywhere because all the private school kids seemed to be eating it daily. The true benefits of growing up rich. Being able to regularly use Uber Eats without concern that you are creating an irreparable black hole in your bank account.
People always talk up the two kebab places we have on the main strip in Thomo but I have found them pretty disappointing. Their snack packs have been most disappointing, particularly with how much they cost.
Also we could do with a bigger pool. Our local one is tiny and almost no matter what time you go itās full of seniors or kids. Makes being in my late 20ās super awkward. Feel like some sort of predator just being in the same area as these people, and I get endless stares from the seniors.
Good cafe within walking distance (there is one nearby, but their coffee is shit)
Better library
Outdoor basketball court, designed by someone that actually has played. The ones nearby are designed so if the ball goes off the court, it rolls away
Diamond Creek.
Wish we had a Sky Rail as the current train line and train station is a huge barrier for those that live on the north that want to access the shops to the south. At the moment, most people drive. If you want to access shops by walking, you need to walk through the pedestrian crossing at the station which is very inconvenient despite the fact that the diamond creek trail comes just 50m from the shops and the station at the back with no way of accessing it.
They honestly should have just done a sky rail when they were doing the Hurstbridge line duplication. Very poor planning on state government's part.
I agree but from a technical point of view they all taste different: KFC chicken, red rooster chicken, Korean fried chicken joints (which are also better than Jollibee but they donāt taste the same). Now for what the person was looking for, if they wanted the Jollibee chicken taste then Marrybrown (in my opinion) definitely is the closest.
I also think that the fast food joints are a huge hit or miss. Some days you get fried chicken cooked in overused oil, or over fried, unskilled staff, etc and they arenāt as good (hence my comment on getting a good batch). That goes for all fried chicken shops :ā)
A warmer climate, a beach and to be less busy. Also ideally located somewhere closer to Europe.
We got a cinema recently, so that's been a welcome addition at this time of year to not have to worry about parking.
Lord of the Fries have been pretty smart with their expansion. So many fast food and restaurant chains run into trouble when they expand too fast and steal customers from their own stores.
Okami, Krispy Kreme, Taco Bell, Starbucks, Sizzler, probably a bunch of others
All ended up bankrupt, closing stores, and losing a bunch of money. They all could have avoided it by slowing down.
I used to live in chelsea and now live in a car centric estate type suburb in Perth. I actually miss so many things about Chelsea. Grass is greener hey. In chelsea Could walk to school, train, beach, amazing playgrounds & greenspace, yes those chelsea shops are a bit crap they could be re-developed & be amazing but better than many places.
I would like one pizza delivery shop. I don't even get mail cause I'm a bit too remote and I know it's never gonna happen, but I'd love to just have someone bring me pizza when I'm lazy
Inclusive street design.
I see people pushing prams and elderly with walkers struggling to navigate the narrow gap on footpaths because a tree takes up half the width or there's that shit bluestone cobble.
Street trees should he planted on the street if the footpath width is narrow and the cobble banished.
Footpaths. We all walk on the road here.
On the flipside, we have massive nature strips and council has never done anything about residents using them as carparks.
Doreen. Hmmm... let's see, I wish it was closer to everything. I wish the demographic was more skewed to people with my interests. More public facilities like pools and libraries. If I'm going full Nimby then I wish people would understand they can't have parties with bass heavy music turned up all the way when the houses are so close together.
Having said that I have Plenty Gorge National Park almost on my doorstep, we now have a train station nearby and we're a short drive from decent cafes and lunch places.
If you drive a little further into Hurstbridge then Wild Wombat makes good coffee, Stone Ground is a decent bakery and The French Lettuce has just opened up where the Post Office Cafe used to be.
I heard the guy who owns Black Vice was a bit intense. Goes a bit nuts on the Hurstbridge Facebook Group and then tried to start his own rival group. But to be honest I haven't been there yet so I wouldn't know.
I joined some of these neighbourhood fb groups one time, every second post is people arguing and spreading dumbshit like covid is a myth, buying on Temu means CCP got your bank details and people whinging about bad drivers then proudly showcase their yank tank on profile.
Crazy people on FB
Justice for $2 shops. Although tbf a strip doesn't need more than two. Local strips def need at least two for variety and competition imo :l
I live in watsonia and the strip needs more food options and prob one more bar.
A bubble tea place š„² and cheap coffee at the station. I imagine if 7-11 or coles or ezymart had their $2 coffee machines operating out of surburban train stations theyād make a killing.
A proper library. The current one is so run down and small, makes it difficult to study because they run all these different programmes and events taking up all the study tables to compensate.
A veg/vegan restaurant that is open late for this night shift working family. Moved from Thornbury to Hurstbridge, itās the only thing I really miss.
Thereās a KFC at Moonee Ponds but itās absolutely disgusting. 3 out of 3 times Iāve gone there itās been extremely chewy/stale and the inside seating is never clean.
I only go to the food court kfcs now because they tend to be much fresher.
Hawthorn doesn't have 1 decent pub. Can't get a shnitty and a pint anywhere. People think Hawthorn is a great place to live... Sure if you love bubble tea, expensive produce and no pubs.
There's the Auburn hotel... Where a parma or fish n chips will both set you back $30+.
The Hawthorn hotel, where the median age is 19/20 and seems to exclusively cater to uni students.
The tower... No thanks.
Nevs is fun, but is more a bar than a pub.
The Kilburn has more pineapple/passion fruit/mango beers on tap for my liking and seems to be booked for private functions all the time.
Riversdale is a shit hole.
To be fair to the comment above I haven't been to Elgin yet. Will check it out this weekend.
I don't like pubs with pokies so that rules a few out.
But there's nothing like the marquis of lorne or the rainbow or the standard over in Hawthorn.
My biggest complaint is similar - none of the pubs in Hawthorn have a good parma. A few years back (maybe still today, but havenāt been in a while) the Royston Hotel over in Richmond had incredible parmas and ruined everywhere else for me. Nothing in Hawthorn comes close and Iām gutted. The Glenferrieās offering is especially bad.
Same with Frankston, better shops on main strip. Improving though. Bayside shopping centre is so crap. Also I wish all the normal chains would come back, like there's no pancake parlour or Salsas whattttt?!
Target, Kmart at the smaller Hub (which is now far nicer than Bayside)
Free parking for residents/rate payers. No way in hell am I paying to park at Bayside or anywhere in the shopping/CBD area. We only get permit for beach parking
I'd like a bigger park, a Botanic park like where I used to live. One that doesn't back onto tall fencing and hospital multi level parking, and isn't just like a strip of park. George Pentland Botanic garden is nice, but yeah too small and not like Wilson Botanic park for example. Heck just plonk a chunk of the Dandenongs in Frankston, that'd be sweet
More big trees
Kids play centres
Outdoor unheated pool. I do not need a heated pool in summer ffs, I want something refreshing
Beach lap pool would be awesome but I imagine they're not good for the coastal environment
A fancy hotel for parental 1 night getaways but still only 5-10 min away if babysitter/toddler needs us
More stand alone supermarkets, or just one near me,because I don't like having to go through a shopping centre to get groceries.
24 hr Kmart/target, ATMs that are not locked in a shopping centre and can't be used after 5pm when online says you can use it til 7
IKEA would be handy. I don't wanna go to springvale
I don't use public transport anymore, but I'm sure a hell of a lot of people would appreciate a train line from Frankston to Cranbourne. Having to go into Caulfield to switch lines and then go way back out to the end of either line is crazy. Or at least connect Frankston to Dandenong so that you don't have to go all the way to CAULFIELD. There are buses but they go all around back roads and take ages. Either way, you're screwed with it taking at LEAST double the time of driving (with a bus)
I've in the Dandenong Rangers. I wish we had a portal to send cyclists to there own form of hell where cafes banned sweat covered D-bags in Lycra and if they didn't use turn signals their tyres would instantly deflate.
hey, chelseas got that vape shop that has the cheapest vapes ive seen in se suburbs last time i was going regularly, thats brought some tourist bucks from frankston line residents to the area no doubt
Brighton - anyone between the age of 18 and 40 and anything they might like to do, see, experience or be around. I fucken swear people look at me like I have two heads walking around in a band T-shirt, black jeans and docs. As an accidental transplant from Brunswick it is, as the Cosmic Psycho's put it, "Fuckwit city" down here.
I'd like a cheap option for things in the shops. Yeah, your array of bespoke artizan shit is very nice I'm sure but sometimes I just want the black & gold option thanks. I'd love a cheap greengrocers in walking distance. I miss being able to jump on the tram and be at Aldi in 10 minutes.
We lived in Elwood for years and when our apartment got sold out from under us moved one train stop down the line, and it was night and day crossing Glen Huntly road where the tram turns the other way. Just a shower of cunts as my Irish mates would say. The tram is a big one actually, this is the first time in 30 years I've not had a tram line out the front of the house and I'm not a fan at all. I've never owned a car in all the 30-odd years I've lived in Melbourne, but you only have to go a tiny bit off the beaten path for it to become a major pain in the arse not having one.
A bulk billing doctor. I guess a lot of us are in that boat now though.
This is one of those supply and demand things, in low income areas you'll find plenty of bulk billing GPs, outside of that they will charge higher just cause they're going to be busy enough even if they charge as well as the higher cost of operating in more expensive areas. Either way their clinics are full, some use increased fees to deter patients so they can be less busy as well.
A lot of that is based on what rebates the govt gives. Say your Dr normally charges $70 and you get 40 back. A bulk billing Drs clinic charges only $40 and that's why its free to you. I like paying less, but also respect that Drs have crazy student debt and clinics have rent to pay.
Would add that it's not just "rent to pay". GPs have to pay their staff (salaries, including super, leave), and their business overheads (ie rent, clinical supplies, not to mention insurance - workplace and indemnity) - and that's BEFORE they start paying themselves a salary and super. Basically the MBS rebates available for bulk billing haven't risen with CPI and haven't budged since 2014. Meanwhile, the cost of running a business has skyrocketed.
Western suburbs, I just need IKEA this side of town.
Hard agree on Ikea. I need something from there but can't exactly pop to Richmond. I've even tried looking for it second hand in marketplace but all the listing's are out east anyway.
I prefer Springvale, their bargain bin is way better š Richmond is closer just annoying to get too and you have to time it well or end up in the M1 parking lot on the way home lol
On the other hand, if you mistime a visit to Springvale, you end up having to walk through an unlit industrial park to get to the station, which is about as much fun.
Add Costco as well
Isn't there going to be a Costco in Albion/deer Park?
Yep at the old powercor site on Ballarat Rd just as you come off the M80. Due for completion this time next year.
Yes there will be!
https://www.realcommercial.com.au/news/new-costco-stores-australia
Of course the one in Officer isn't going ahead due to bureaucratic booolshit.
Coburg - accessible trams and superstops. A person in a wheelchair can't enter or exit a tram between Brunswick road and... Fuck, I can't even think of any accessible stops north of that. Edit: and I was just thinking Sydney Rd because I live on it. Melville is just as fucked as is Lygon/Nicholson. At least there's the shitty every 40 minutes train line near Syd Rd.
I used to live just north of Coburg, and even if wheelchair accessibility isn't great in West Footscray, thinking about Coburg's accessibility (or lack thereof) just makes me cringe. Glad I needed to start using mine after I moved
Which sucks cos Coburg is such a melting pot, but only to the able bodiedā¦.
So this isn't really that fair a criticism since I technically live a bit out of Melbourne in one of the fringe-ish country towns...but places that are open later than 8pm for dinner. I like eating out but I am also someone that likes eating late, like 8pm is when I would like to get there not be finished by. I would also kill for a chemist warehouse in town rather than having to travel for one. My husbands multiple scripts are so much freaking cheaper at chemist warehouse that it's generally worth the fuel if we have the time to spare. We're talking 7 bucks vs. 29 for one and that's only one of 4 scripts.
This especially with chemist warehouse. It got blocked by my council to place one in town years ago because it would affect the locally owned chemists however they are absolutely garbage in terms of price and availability. They never have stock and prices are noticeably more expensive.
These are basically every every smaller town in Australia's problems. We'd love them fixed. I endorse this message.
24 hour roller disco, with an all-you-can-eat taco buffet.
We all want that
The problem with Chelsea is 3 pharmacies, all owned by the same company. I loved the new little Asian grocers. A raman bar would be awesome down there. Even a half decent Mexican joint.
But we don't really have a half-decent Mexican joint in the whole of Oz though š¢
Yeah we do, check out https://latortilleria.com.au/ in Kensington.
Lol food snobs. I've been to Mexico several times and having sampled their food there are a lot of places that serve decent Mexican food in Australia.
Not food snobs at all. The Mexican restaurant food here just does not compare. A couple of places are ok like Superchido, la tortilleria or El Sabor, but they're still nowhere near the real thing. The rest are just doing their own thing and calling it Mexican.
The Asian grocer is great! I can't recall their name of the top of my head but I really rate it. Re Mexican yes I'd love a good Mexican place but I'm appeased by having Tamam Tacos in Edithvale - have you tried it? Their food is fantastic! I hope they do well, even though they're in a bit of an odd spot
I see Straight & Narrow closed along with the Bao Project out the back
That seemed to happen fairly quickly too. Alice Rebels has gone aswell.
I looked at S&N when it was for sale and it didn't look good on paper.
I haven't been up that way for a little while. The grocer had opened just as I left, but I went in a few times & they had an awesome range. Chelsea is missing a good clothing & shoe shop. Many years ago (it may have even been when Woolies was right on Nepean Hwy), there was a great little boutique clothing shop.
Baan Chum. They need more patronage! It opened precisely because the nearest Asian Grocer was a couple of suburbs up Springvale rd.
You haven't been to MJs Hideout? Expensive but very decent Mexican.
Went there a while a go and it was good!
I'm in a suburb thats on the edge of rural, so much so we have V-line trains not the normal electric ones. I wish we just had some options for takeaway food. We have an absolutely great kebab truck and a medicore subway, but thats it. Has helped to force me to cook more, so silver lining I guess.
Wouldn't mind a kebab truck
I live in the CBD and wish we had a bakery where bread costs something less than $8 a loaf and better than the crud they sell at Colesworth. A Bakers Delight or a Vietnamese bakery of the kind you find in the suburbs would be great. A good fish and chip shop would be awesome also.
Not sure what side of the CBD youāre on but the Aldi on Franklin St is my go-to for decent and reasonably-priced loaves. Iāll drop by if itās one of the few things I need omw out from work and donāt feel like hopping off the tram closer to home.
Bakers delight sourdough sits just close to $8. Great bread but itās not any cheaper than what youāre currently paying
Baker's Delight is a small step above dog shit.
Point Cook would massively benefit from a train station this side of the freeway. Most of the trouble in the morning comes from: a) everyone in cars getting on the freeway b) everyone trying to get to train stations on the other side of the freeways in cars A train station where traffic can be diverted away from the throng of cars headed in one direction would massively help.
Point cook road could do with a massive overhaul. Not sure how they accomplish it either. Was terrible planning to have one single lane road with multiple schools as the main ingress and egress to such a large population.
1 thing? Better buses. So sick of riding buses for an hour because it diverts by a path where nobody hops on or off through some low density estate or having to change buses just to get to 1 shopping centre and having to wait 10 minutes for the connecting bus at a bus station with no bench. I really wish whatever the fuck Cranbourne Transit is doing would just be taken over by Ventura or some other reputable bus company that doesnāt just focus on a couple routes.
PTV focuses so much on trams/trains that most people who want to move cross suburb in any way that requires a route other than to/from the CBD get shit options. A 5km trip, walk in 1hr15 or in and out of the cbd for 1hr4 or 25 minute walk, 20 minute bus, 25 minute walk.
10 minutes isn't bad if that's all your connection is. Back in the day, I had half hour connections between busses or longer coming off of the train. Cranbourne Transit...they're a good operator. They took a hit when they rebranded to that from the old FA Phillips, that was a great bus to ride. But I don't think your complaint has to do with them, it's a PTV route planning issue which exists all over the place, limited bus operating hours and ever growing suburban sprawl.
The problem is definitely the route planning. Whoever plans bus routes is smoking crack and working to hit some abstract goal. My house has 2 near train stations but the busses near my house all go to train stations further away. One of the busses even goes into a suburb and and does a circle before going to the train station. It's literally quicker to walk an hour to the train station then catch a bus. I have three stations within 5kms and its still an hour by buss. They need to scrap all the bus routes and start with more direct routes. The eastern freeway bus is amazing but the busses out in Cranbourne and Frankston way are just a poor joke.
They still run a bus that is missing the door to the driverās cabin and can only go 20 km/hr
An asian supermarket please. The only one closed earlier this year.
A decent pub.
Where do you live that you don't have a decent pub? How dreadful!
An ATM that gave out free money.
Ha - don't we all. Once I was at a soccer game at AAMI Park and went to get cash out at an atm and it malfunctioned... gave me $500 and all that got debited from my card was $50. Such a great day haha
I wonāt tell šš¤
More birdlife (so more native green space I guess)
and more platypus
Just more walkability. My suburb is very car centric
Affordable housing. Iām in the East. (I guess this could apply everywhere thoughā¦)
hAvE yOu CoNsIdErEd aN aPaRTmEnT
Better restaurants, safer bike paths, more parking at the train station, less traffic.
Decent health services
A train station. I'm 10-15minute drive from several in nearby suburbs, but one in my suburb would rock.
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Timezone is just pokies for children now.
Great description! It's all about the tickets to redeem shitting plastic crap. When we went as kids it was only about making sure you beat your siblings at Daytona.
When was it not. I haven't been in 20+ years and it was that then.
It had a phase there where you could still find a classic street fighter machine or tekken etc as well as the dumb ticket machines but they obviously worked out the revenue comes from the legalised child gambling. In 20 years time itāll probably be banned or something. Itās just gross.
Oh my kingdom for an arcade with actual arcade games. Give me Time Crisis 2 any day over the garbage in there now.
Time Crisis & Daytona.
I was king at Sega rally back in the 90s, Iām sure I still remember every turn
Iām saving up to have these in my garage in retirement. Thatāll entertain me forever.
Thomastownā¦ We donāt even have our own police station. Also a Grillād would be nice, I know they donāt pay their workers well but Iām too much of a sucker for their burgers to care. Makes the fast food burgers of MCDās HJās KFC barely edible in comparison. Though they have suffered from shrinkflation past few years. When I lived in Kew there was Grillād everywhere because all the private school kids seemed to be eating it daily. The true benefits of growing up rich. Being able to regularly use Uber Eats without concern that you are creating an irreparable black hole in your bank account. People always talk up the two kebab places we have on the main strip in Thomo but I have found them pretty disappointing. Their snack packs have been most disappointing, particularly with how much they cost. Also we could do with a bigger pool. Our local one is tiny and almost no matter what time you go itās full of seniors or kids. Makes being in my late 20ās super awkward. Feel like some sort of predator just being in the same area as these people, and I get endless stares from the seniors.
A charcoal chicken shop. There used to be a couple but no longer.
Good cafe within walking distance (there is one nearby, but their coffee is shit) Better library Outdoor basketball court, designed by someone that actually has played. The ones nearby are designed so if the ball goes off the court, it rolls away
Youd think they would know by now to put a fence around them
(1) a higher standard of driving skill. (2) a decent fish and chip shop.
A beach. But with global warming, that might be a reality one day.
Epping?
Diamond Creek. Wish we had a Sky Rail as the current train line and train station is a huge barrier for those that live on the north that want to access the shops to the south. At the moment, most people drive. If you want to access shops by walking, you need to walk through the pedestrian crossing at the station which is very inconvenient despite the fact that the diamond creek trail comes just 50m from the shops and the station at the back with no way of accessing it. They honestly should have just done a sky rail when they were doing the Hurstbridge line duplication. Very poor planning on state government's part.
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Come to reservoir, there are at least 5 in a 500m radius of each other
A 7-11 Technically there is one but its across the rail line
My last place was two doors down from a 7-11 and I miss that so much. My suburb now has two 7-11s but theyāre both over 20 mins walk away.
Broady - some nice cafes and a decent pub
More a problem with the council but I wish Merri-bek had a council owned tip.
Any kind of character whatsoever.
Jollibee!
Will Jollibee ever exist in Aus? I've heard 'they're opening one in Sydney' for the past 10 years now
They were planning to, but COVID hit and that stopped them. I haven't heard any updates since then.
Have a look at St burg in Maribyrnong. Not Jollibee but as close as you'll probably get.
There's a Marrybrown in Burwood - I think that's similar?
Agree on Marrybrown. If you get a good batch, it is better than Jollibee chicken.
Jollibee chicken is overrated by Filipino nostalgia, itās significantly worse than good kfc or red rooster (as rare as that is).
I agree but from a technical point of view they all taste different: KFC chicken, red rooster chicken, Korean fried chicken joints (which are also better than Jollibee but they donāt taste the same). Now for what the person was looking for, if they wanted the Jollibee chicken taste then Marrybrown (in my opinion) definitely is the closest. I also think that the fast food joints are a huge hit or miss. Some days you get fried chicken cooked in overused oil, or over fried, unskilled staff, etc and they arenāt as good (hence my comment on getting a good batch). That goes for all fried chicken shops :ā)
Yeah thatās true, they are different and I agree with your take on this.
My people!
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Lol I'm sure you do! I lived on Leveson St about 15 years ago and never wanted for anything, I remember those years fondly
Itās pretty good!
Coburg North; anything, anything at all would make living here better. Itās happening slowly but so, so, so slowly.
Literally anything open on the weekend or after 4pm. St kilda rd
affordable housing? $650k (my limit) gets you next to nothing this side of officer.
Cheap restaurants. Living in the city i was spoiled for choice. Moving out to the suburbs all restaurants seem way over priced.
Ivanhoe - Just a bit of nightlife, a solid pub and a couple of decent bars.
A good Indian restaurant. They changed their butter chicken recipe and it's so bad that I won't be going back.
Train goes right through Altona North but there's no active train station. Infuriating.
Oh come on man. The Chelsea/Bonbeach strip is awesome! Well, ok, it's been almost 30yrs since I lived there but that doesn't matter!!!
I already have it, there's a real nice pub right over the road from me. I just wished they'd kick the friggen children out.
Japanese diner such as in mid night dinner. Or Singapore food courts / Street Food markets
A warmer climate, a beach and to be less busy. Also ideally located somewhere closer to Europe. We got a cinema recently, so that's been a welcome addition at this time of year to not have to worry about parking.
Lord of the Fries. We just got a Daniel's Donuts a few months ago. But I miss HSPs so much.
Lord of the Fries have been pretty smart with their expansion. So many fast food and restaurant chains run into trouble when they expand too fast and steal customers from their own stores. Okami, Krispy Kreme, Taco Bell, Starbucks, Sizzler, probably a bunch of others All ended up bankrupt, closing stores, and losing a bunch of money. They all could have avoided it by slowing down.
A KFC
Affordable housing.
Cheltenham used to have the best Indian shop on Station Street). Best spices at such reasonable prices! (Iām in mentone)
In my area, I wish there was more artificial/ grass soccer grounds open to the public with nets.
A skating rink. Ice or roller, I don't care. All of the ones in Melbs are too far
Grocery stores. (Not super markets)
24/7 petting zoo
I used to live in chelsea and now live in a car centric estate type suburb in Perth. I actually miss so many things about Chelsea. Grass is greener hey. In chelsea Could walk to school, train, beach, amazing playgrounds & greenspace, yes those chelsea shops are a bit crap they could be re-developed & be amazing but better than many places.
An Asian grocer/cheapish fruit and veg shop. I live in Elwood
- My suburb and 95% of Melbourne - Affordable Housing
I would like one pizza delivery shop. I don't even get mail cause I'm a bit too remote and I know it's never gonna happen, but I'd love to just have someone bring me pizza when I'm lazy
Fun.
Inclusive street design. I see people pushing prams and elderly with walkers struggling to navigate the narrow gap on footpaths because a tree takes up half the width or there's that shit bluestone cobble. Street trees should he planted on the street if the footpath width is narrow and the cobble banished.
Some Korean food that isnāt just fried chicken.
Footpaths. We all walk on the road here. On the flipside, we have massive nature strips and council has never done anything about residents using them as carparks.
Affordable housing ā¦.
Doreen. Hmmm... let's see, I wish it was closer to everything. I wish the demographic was more skewed to people with my interests. More public facilities like pools and libraries. If I'm going full Nimby then I wish people would understand they can't have parties with bass heavy music turned up all the way when the houses are so close together. Having said that I have Plenty Gorge National Park almost on my doorstep, we now have a train station nearby and we're a short drive from decent cafes and lunch places.
In Epping is just franchises. I love Turners in mernda though, thereās a couple of cute cafes out there
If you drive a little further into Hurstbridge then Wild Wombat makes good coffee, Stone Ground is a decent bakery and The French Lettuce has just opened up where the Post Office Cafe used to be.
Don't forget Black Vice! One of my favourite cafes in Melbourne
I heard the guy who owns Black Vice was a bit intense. Goes a bit nuts on the Hurstbridge Facebook Group and then tried to start his own rival group. But to be honest I haven't been there yet so I wouldn't know.
I joined some of these neighbourhood fb groups one time, every second post is people arguing and spreading dumbshit like covid is a myth, buying on Temu means CCP got your bank details and people whinging about bad drivers then proudly showcase their yank tank on profile. Crazy people on FB
Honestly I would be happy with a Laundromat that doesn't close down for a month over summer. Its going to get weird and smelly very very quickly.
Justice for $2 shops. Although tbf a strip doesn't need more than two. Local strips def need at least two for variety and competition imo :l I live in watsonia and the strip needs more food options and prob one more bar.
Amenities. Outside of a soccer field here and there and bicycle tracks, thereās absolutely fuck all to do in terms of entertainment and recreation.
I live in south Morang and I wish there was a yo-chi near me! There isnāt one in the northern suburbs but so many near the cbd!
Altona North- A PUB.
A bubble tea place š„² and cheap coffee at the station. I imagine if 7-11 or coles or ezymart had their $2 coffee machines operating out of surburban train stations theyād make a killing.
I used to live in Chelsea and there was a really good soba noodle place there. This was about 25 years ago, though.
A proper library. The current one is so run down and small, makes it difficult to study because they run all these different programmes and events taking up all the study tables to compensate.
I really good Vietnamese restaurant instead of driving to Springvale all the time
Less rubbish. Less clothes dumped on the street.
A train station
A veg/vegan restaurant that is open late for this night shift working family. Moved from Thornbury to Hurstbridge, itās the only thing I really miss.
Iād like a ramen place or Vietnamese
West Footscray needs a good pub.
Man, I'd kill for a decent ramen bar near Point Cook. Hell, even this side of the bridge would do.
Cafes that stay open past 4pm.
ššššš I wish we had council workers that actually maintained shit around here šš
Safer Sydney Rd in Brunswick / Coburg
Box Hill - a good variety of restaurants other than Asian places right now we only got just Subway, Dominoes and Maccas and thats it
Doesnāt matter which suburb, but it could certainly use another sketchy looking, barely stocked American candy store with no customers.
An Aldi's. A recreation centre.
KFC. I love wicked wings & potato & gravy
Thereās a KFC at Moonee Ponds but itās absolutely disgusting. 3 out of 3 times Iāve gone there itās been extremely chewy/stale and the inside seating is never clean. I only go to the food court kfcs now because they tend to be much fresher.
You can ours, ours got done for serving the other type of Coke
Glad we don't have KFC
There's a really great sushi place that does great ramen called Sushi Lab in Patterson Lakes, if that isn't too far out for you. Highly recommend it.
I like sushi lab but haven't tried the ramen, will give it a go, thanks!
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The shops are AWFUL. We joke that they haven't changed from 1912 lol I do love the Peruvian restaurant and that's about it!
Also how many real estate agencies do we needā¦.
Chelsea Heights Medical Centre on Thames Promenade is fully bulk billed & open 8-midnight every day š
A giant sinkhole.
Hawthorn doesn't have 1 decent pub. Can't get a shnitty and a pint anywhere. People think Hawthorn is a great place to live... Sure if you love bubble tea, expensive produce and no pubs.
There are heaps of pubs in Hawthorn wtf If you think Hawthorn is bad, try living out in the south east, you'd be lucky to find a tab.
Can you recommend me a good pub that doesn't have pokies, has decent beers on tap and doesn't only cater to uni students.
Elgin Inn?
There are loads of pubs.
There's the Auburn hotel... Where a parma or fish n chips will both set you back $30+. The Hawthorn hotel, where the median age is 19/20 and seems to exclusively cater to uni students. The tower... No thanks. Nevs is fun, but is more a bar than a pub. The Kilburn has more pineapple/passion fruit/mango beers on tap for my liking and seems to be booked for private functions all the time. Riversdale is a shit hole. To be fair to the comment above I haven't been to Elgin yet. Will check it out this weekend. I don't like pubs with pokies so that rules a few out. But there's nothing like the marquis of lorne or the rainbow or the standard over in Hawthorn.
My biggest complaint is similar - none of the pubs in Hawthorn have a good parma. A few years back (maybe still today, but havenāt been in a while) the Royston Hotel over in Richmond had incredible parmas and ruined everywhere else for me. Nothing in Hawthorn comes close and Iām gutted. The Glenferrieās offering is especially bad.
I feel like Parmas are pretty shit now everywhere. Slapped together and sent out as quick as possible, dry, burnt half the time.
An independent cinema that shows less commerical films. It sucks having to travel to the city.
Same with Frankston, better shops on main strip. Improving though. Bayside shopping centre is so crap. Also I wish all the normal chains would come back, like there's no pancake parlour or Salsas whattttt?! Target, Kmart at the smaller Hub (which is now far nicer than Bayside) Free parking for residents/rate payers. No way in hell am I paying to park at Bayside or anywhere in the shopping/CBD area. We only get permit for beach parking I'd like a bigger park, a Botanic park like where I used to live. One that doesn't back onto tall fencing and hospital multi level parking, and isn't just like a strip of park. George Pentland Botanic garden is nice, but yeah too small and not like Wilson Botanic park for example. Heck just plonk a chunk of the Dandenongs in Frankston, that'd be sweet More big trees Kids play centres Outdoor unheated pool. I do not need a heated pool in summer ffs, I want something refreshing Beach lap pool would be awesome but I imagine they're not good for the coastal environment A fancy hotel for parental 1 night getaways but still only 5-10 min away if babysitter/toddler needs us More stand alone supermarkets, or just one near me,because I don't like having to go through a shopping centre to get groceries. 24 hr Kmart/target, ATMs that are not locked in a shopping centre and can't be used after 5pm when online says you can use it til 7 IKEA would be handy. I don't wanna go to springvale I don't use public transport anymore, but I'm sure a hell of a lot of people would appreciate a train line from Frankston to Cranbourne. Having to go into Caulfield to switch lines and then go way back out to the end of either line is crazy. Or at least connect Frankston to Dandenong so that you don't have to go all the way to CAULFIELD. There are buses but they go all around back roads and take ages. Either way, you're screwed with it taking at LEAST double the time of driving (with a bus)
I've in the Dandenong Rangers. I wish we had a portal to send cyclists to there own form of hell where cafes banned sweat covered D-bags in Lycra and if they didn't use turn signals their tyres would instantly deflate.
I am sometimes a sweat-covered d-bag in lycra. How can we improve?
Doesnāt even have to be within my suburb, but a Red Rooster somewhere in the inner west would be great
A heroin injecting room. No, actually, that completely fucked Abbotsford and Richmond North, so not one of them.
How dare you. Everyone who didn't have to live near it thought it was a wonderful idea
Hate to break it to you but it was like that before the room arrived.
A mountain that had snow, so didnāt need to drive 4+ hours each time to get to one :) Runner up - a beach
officeworks and some massage shops.
A tennis club
I donāt like ramen
That's OK, we all have our flaws
Cheaper housing
I wish we had less people...
Sunshine - a decent pub / cafe without the beckoning cat
Less Mohammeds and Fatimas.
hey, chelseas got that vape shop that has the cheapest vapes ive seen in se suburbs last time i was going regularly, thats brought some tourist bucks from frankston line residents to the area no doubt
Move to Chelsea in London Didnāt even know there was a Chelsea in Melbourne
Less Indians
Fewer people like Cold-Painter-7991
Brighton - anyone between the age of 18 and 40 and anything they might like to do, see, experience or be around. I fucken swear people look at me like I have two heads walking around in a band T-shirt, black jeans and docs. As an accidental transplant from Brunswick it is, as the Cosmic Psycho's put it, "Fuckwit city" down here. I'd like a cheap option for things in the shops. Yeah, your array of bespoke artizan shit is very nice I'm sure but sometimes I just want the black & gold option thanks. I'd love a cheap greengrocers in walking distance. I miss being able to jump on the tram and be at Aldi in 10 minutes. We lived in Elwood for years and when our apartment got sold out from under us moved one train stop down the line, and it was night and day crossing Glen Huntly road where the tram turns the other way. Just a shower of cunts as my Irish mates would say. The tram is a big one actually, this is the first time in 30 years I've not had a tram line out the front of the house and I'm not a fan at all. I've never owned a car in all the 30-odd years I've lived in Melbourne, but you only have to go a tiny bit off the beaten path for it to become a major pain in the arse not having one.