’’Good" suburbs in Dunners

Hi

I am orginally from Dunedin but haven't lived there for a while now. We are considering moving down there, depending on job availability for Hubby.

What are good suburbs down there now ?

TIA

ETA awful spelling

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I would say nice family areas are Andersons Bay, Waverley, Belleknowes, Maori Hill, Roslyn and parts of St Clair.

We're in Andy Bay and we're looking at moving in the next year or two. I'm looking here and Waverley.

Basicaly the ones to aviod are: Brockville, Caversham, Corstophine, north east valley (can be quite cold) some areas of south dunedin.

Dam i knew as soon as i hit post someone would live in one of those suburbs! lol
Its more just some of the streets that i have come accross for ambulance work.

ahaha i live in Corstorphine too. but 'up top'. huge view of the harbour - right by corstorphine house. our street is a cul-de-sac and very child friendly. our neighbours are all lovely and our next door neighbour brings us firewood most weeks lol.


NEV can get very cold. corstorphine up the top is great because you can get wonderful harbour views and we have full lounge room sun from sunrise to sunset.

brockville, some of south dunedin tend to be associated with the 'riff raff' - gang related etc. but there are nice places in every suburb.


if money is not a problem - maori hill and roslyn are great.


our house is 3 bdrm, HUGE open plan lounge room and kitchen, seperate toilet, interior laundry, bigish backyard, harbour views, driveway/parking for 5 cars, all day sun and without giving away the price - it was under 250K.



james - are you up top by kew/concord? im on Traquair st if you close by for a cuppa?

I live in Andy Bay (there seem to be a few of us here!) and we are looking at selling up soon but moving to a house in the same area coz it's great for kids. House prices are reasonable and the schools in the area are all good. Plus you're close to the beach and the peninsula and town is about 5-10 mins drive (depending on the time of day).

I would say avoid Caversham... I used to live and work there, and houses are dirt cheap, but there's usually a reason. But as people have said there are good and bad things about each suburb.

I actually think NEV isn't a bad area for families. Yeah, it's a student area, but if you go a little further down the valley, and make sure you buy/rent a house on the hill side, there are some lovely houses with big sections for not too much. Gardens/supermarket/town is close. Just check to see if the neighbours are student rentals or not.

Mucky - Haha, Out our windows we can see st clair and I could also walk across the golf course and jump off the cliff.
I'm guessing you live on Gresham St??




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Mmm, I don't know where that is lol.

did i break it?
this isnt showing up in the list on the general page...