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Canning Vale

"Left for greener pastures"

Lived in Brookland Green for 3 years and couldn't wait to sell up and move out. Too many yobs with high powered cars, houses too close together, too many colorbond fences & patios to bounce the sound around, too many air-conditioners going 24/7. Too much traffic. Unless you work south of Canning Vale (don't have to cross the railway) you are destined to be stuck in traffic every workday, do not do it.

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Luton

Gosh Helen, I'm sorry you didn't like it here. I wonder where you moved to get away from yobs, high powered cars, colourbond fences, patios & airconditioners? I believe all suburbs have their fair share of these. We have as much land around our extensive house as houses in all neighbouring suburbs outside of Canning Vale. We've been living in this suburb for many years & have great neighbours & find it a very positive place to live but maybe we are positive people & look for the best in things instead of looking for greener pastures. I do agree with you on traffic around the railway line on Nicholson Road but hopefully it will be upgraded in the not too distant future. I only hope you don't have to travel on Leach Highway! I guess we have to learn to share the roads with more & more cars nowadays as Perth grows & our planners fail to plan adequately.

helen700
helen700

Glad to hear you enjoy C/V so much. We moved to Willetton & live in a lovely cul-de-sac opposite a park. Son goes to Willetton High School & is able to ride. This location is less than 15 minutes to the city (20 during peak) and has quick access to Freo, Roe Hwy & Freeway....the roads don't seem to get congested in the same way the roads leading out of Canning Vale do. Sea Breeze arrives earlier too! We have no problems with high powered cars & as the homes are older, the fencing is noise friendly super six and as people have more trees in their gardens, the noise transfer is almost nil. Sounds like your spot in C/V is ideal for you and yours & that is all we can ask for isn't it?

Luton

I am very familiar with Willetton. We lived there for 18 years before moving to Canning Vale when it was semi rural. Apart from Willetton looking very tired & drab our main incentive for moving was when our son's car was completely trashed (& I mean was a write off) in the carpark at Southlands. The culprits - a gang of children in the age group of 10-12year olds who roamed the streets at night & caused havoc. I could post a very negative score (as opposed to just comments) on Willetton & drop the rating because quite frankly it's still tired & drab & often looks like a rubbish tip) but we have a property there so it would be to our disadvantage. As a suburb to live Canning Vale, especially the older estates like Brookland Greens, The Avenues, Sanctuary Waters etc is tops with lots of lakes everywhere, green,green parks & all the facilities within walking distance.

NigelS

Helen couldn't be more correct. Poor town planning results in two roads to get to the C'Vale 'mega-suburb' which is chaos in peak hour Mon - Sun. Upgraded in the near future? Pfft I don't think so.
P-plater's, cashed-up-bogans, regular bogans and regular muppets dropping a burnout; enjoying the sounds of their loud exhausts and/or stereos; or just driving with reckless abandon is commonplace.
Heavy Jandakot airport air traffic and is also in line with a Perth Airport runway with a constant stream of heavy airliners depending on the time and day.
I've had property here since 1999 and seen this suburb grow and socially depreciate. Look elsewhere for a better buy at the same price.

jayb2

I agree with Luton fully. Willetton is an old suburb with fragile old construction (1980s) and very high prices. Canning vale on other hand is a new suburb with more bustling young professional residents. Living in canning vale makes me feel like living in a city, its more alive certainly more active than Willetton.

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jetjetty

Interestingly, it is between these two suburbs. I am checking out these because of plans to move out of Willetton. One would have thought it is a safe suburb but one never knows what could happen. One would have thought it is a good safe suburb with pricey houses and reputable schools. By the end of the first year we moved in, I was gradually realising that I was being watched, stalked and as it unfolded, my garden was vandalised, door keyhole was tampered with, pots moved, side gate broken in, plants were vandalised, sewerage lid was tampered with in a few occasions; just to name a few antics that appear intimidating. Gut feelings about the culprit family across the street became a journey of painful denial because of the so called goodwill relation we thought we had with those people. It was a series of organised bad schemes after schemes of disturbances, rumour mongering , introducing their friends to us only to check on our in and outs and so on. The long and short of it is that the truth was revealed with CCTV I had eventually yielded to , the many other puzzle pieces from various sources and all in all, left a really sick in the stomach feeling with those realisations. I am on an alert since. I had also since realised the dodgy night movement of these people that add on to the shadiness. To confront or report them would be awkard with children in the same school. A family that looked innocent and normal but what was captured on our CCTV and shady discovery from other sources remain distasteful to me. We are still being watched till this day but they know we have survellience now so deterrence is in place. When toxic mindsets and dreadful hunger for competition prevail in people of proximity, we risk being like them. Of course, this is nothing compared to real crimes in other suburbs but it is mentally debilitating and peace of one's own home has already been compromised. I would not stay here for long.Thanks for all your insights here. They are helpful.

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