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Sounds like you don't even live in Melville. I disagree with most of what you say. It is such a clean quiet suburb. Too expensive you say. Well that's because it's a lovely place to live , central to everything and lovely tree lined streets. Very safe also. Its worth the extra money.

Sounds like you haven't been to Melville. The only way you could say it's polluted is if you moved here from the Alaskan wilderness. What a ridiculous comment.

Gotta agree. The streets are getting old. The prices are through the roof for what you get. The drive along canning highway is a nightmare.

I wouldn't move back to this suburb if you paid me.

Better than most but generally speaking the only people. Who can afford this area are the kids of the well off who have their parents help a little. Blocks are big but subdivision is ruining the area and it's fast turning into a high rental area.

Fremantle has been going downhill for a while now and the mayor is trying to stop the joining with Melville. Maybe once they are out of the picture fremantle can develop and become a proper city instead of the nightmare it is today. Then it would be worth living in Melville.

But WA in general develops so slowly that once you buy that's it. Don't expect anything to happen for 30 years.

Theres a lot of validity to what was said. I have lived in Melville since 1991 and watched it go from the ideal white picket fence suburb to a continual construction site. This is due to the age of the suburb and the cost of houses there, the people that can afford to buy there will not live in one of the old houses they buy on the gigantic block, but demolish it immediately and build which makes sense but is extremely annoying and an inconvenience to all around. On top of that, everyone has a yapping dog and the traffic situation is very true. A trip down Canning hwy after 2:30pm on any given week day will confirm, if you need further proof, go to Garden city or even any of the shopping centres on a saturday. However, we have not been broken into once in well over 20 years.

Want something modern . Have you seen the changes ? Lots of modern new houses built where old ones were. Lots of new building going on. In my street there are 3 houses being built right now. Yes expensive houses. But the area is getting better and better. Nice quiet safe place to live. As a woman on my won couldn't choose a better suburb to live.

Everyone has a right to comment. However, once you have lived in Melville or the closer surrounding suburbs you can't live anywhere else. We have trees and lovely old homes amongst new builds. What do people expect...building go up everywhere. Some dumb replies too

Noisy? Which street did you live on? Main Street? or backing onto Wanneroo Rd? Most parts of Joondanna are quiet.

I used to go for works all over Joondanna, and would not have missed much street, and what I found is I was always thinking to myself that I would not want to live there as very noisy and I'm not talking about Main Street of Wanneroo Road, but the little back street which echoed the roar from the fore mentioned back streets. On top of that, there were only the odd house I liked there and priced well out of the reach of 95% of the general population. Location is good if working in the city, as just a short stroll to the train station meaning no parking problems, but you need to like where you are living and I did not like to live there for those prices.