Popular regions for Melbourne's British community. The City of Banyule is located between 7 and 21 km north east of Melbourne. 21 suburbs make up Banyule including Bundoora, Heidelberg and Ivanhoe.
Sydney – New South Wales
Being a popular area for immigration it is very cosmopolitan with a diverse culture, but laid back atmosphere. The weather is favourable, with the sea breeze making it a very comfortable temperature on the coasts. With an accessibility to jobs, Sydney is a choice destination for expats.
When it comes to deciding where to live, Melbourne's expats generally prefer the leafier outlying suburbs with their quiet streets and proximity to schools. Government schools in Melbourne are free for residents and citizens, and education is generally of excellent quality throughout Australia.
Toorak has long been king of the hill, home to Melbourne's priciest, exclusive properties - and this is still true today. Why is Toorak so expensive? The inner city suburb has a combination of luxury lifestyle properties that are within a 6km radius of the CBD.
1. Toorak – $5.18m. Toorak, one of Melbourne's most exclusive and affluent suburbs, is a long-standing front runner for property prices so it's no surprise to see this suburb at the top of the list yet again. Toorak is located about 5km south-east of the CBD and has a range of luxury properties on offer.
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The most expensive suburb close to the Melbourne CBD is the leafy suburb of Toorak. Arguably the suburb people most Australians consider to be the most expensive in Melbourne, Toorak has a median house price of $3,043,600 and is located just five kilometres from the city centre.
1. Braybrook — St Albans (77,300 people)
In Melbourne, high homelessness rates are found in Dandenong about 25km from the city, as well as in Maribyrnong, Brimbank, Moreland, Darebin and Whitehorse councils.
The United Nations has declared 2022-2032 as the International Decade of Indigenous Languages! 59% of Melbourne suburb names are English. 18% are Indigenous which is the next largest language origin source. Bulleke-bek is the Woi-wurrung name of the area we now know as Brunswick.
Often described as the most 'European' of Australian cities, Melbourne has large concentrations of Irish communities in and around the suburbs of St Kilda and Elwood, east of the city.
Adelaide with its graceful buildings and abundant parkland is sometimes described as the most British, even English, of Australian cities.
As far back as the 1850s, slums existed in inner city Melbourne. Slum dwellers lived a squalid existence. Often, they had no bathrooms, or sewerage. They lived in ramshackle housing, with leaky roofs and holes in the walls.
The Mornington Peninsula has become a hot spot for the rich and famous, with its multimillion-dollar clifftop mansions attracting celebrities, business titans and sporting greats – who seldom ever part with their pricey pads.