ClaireBear
Reviews
"Started great but going down hill"
We were so excited to move to Mernda and had high expectations. We built a lovely home. However, whilst our immediate surrounds were nice and our neighbours, the rest of the area is becoming spoilt by scum bag bogans. Hoons are everywhere and seems everyone is fat and smokes and can't wear anything but tracksuits. The parks and wetlands are so beautiful but not appreciated by those living close by. Lots of commission housing now and investment properties which can encourage the tramps of society in. Call me a snob - I don't care - I don't want Toorak but I want decent people who have manners and pride in their surrounds and community.
The traffic is terrible and causes everyone to be grumpy and to be rude on the road. Constantly see people with road rage. Primary school is actually really nice - but there are no high schools.
I have been 'told' Doreen is better - don't think so. It has been scoped and planned the same as Mernda and the house and land deals/sizes are the same. Besides all the suburbs roll into each other anyway with the sprawl of development. Oh and the new South Morang station is a joke. Expect to park 10 minutes walk from the station. If you work in the city (which lets face it most people do) its gonna take you 3 hours of commuting a day. Glad we sold and got away from a place I was starting to really hate.
Great for
- Country feel
- Parks
- Street layout
- Views
Not great for
- Resale value
- Bogans with commondores
- Traffic and no decent transport
- Trucks
The impending transport chaos in the Whittlesea area was analysed very well over two years ago - not, of course, by anyone in the state government. I thought this article was particularly good:
http://griffithreview.com/monday-morning-in-mernda
Where have you moved to now?
Good to hear someone being honest and not air-headed about Mernda living. I moved there 2007 and it was lovely - quiet, clean, new estate. Then the idiots and ratbags and hoons moved in from areas such as Reservoir. Everything went downhill from there. People today have no respect for others, their environment or anything else. They will ruin this new area just as they do every other place where decent people live.
I'm pretty curious as to where all of these commission houses are as I work in property development and can guarantee that there are no commission houses in Mernda Villages. There are apartments and townhouses, but these are not to be confused with commission houses. People should do their research properly before condemning a suburb for commission houses that do not actually exist.
No disrespect is meant, but Im a former resident of a commission home in mernda, just off everard/coppice and Dunedin. If you look hard enough theyre there. Mernda is fairly safe by day but you definitely want to get inside by 8pm. Especially if you live on a bad block
What does someone's weight have to do with anything? Other than that remark I agree with you. The driving is deplorable, people have actually tried to run me off the road and kill me, there are commission houses in the Mernda villages estate (north of bridge inn road) the houses are ridiculously small, I hear the land owners who own the farm are only being offered 80,000 an acre and then they greedy bastards put 8 houses on that acre, apparently according to some builders I know the area has been intentionally designed this way to encourage people to get out and meet their neighbours but it is quickly turning into a ghetto. I am renting but only because I wanted to see if I wanted to buy here, it seems there are two kinds of people that live in the area, rude snobs, and rude scum-bags, so thanks but no thanks!