Top tips to help you find your ideal suburb
Whether you flourish within the hustle and bustle of life in an inner-city suburb, or if you like nothing more than to be surrounded by leafy streets and plenty of green space for the kids to run around in, taking the time to find the perfect suburb for you and your family is well worth it.
Health Benefits
When choosing a location to live in, have you ever considered the potential health benefits it could have? Typically, suburban areas with greater access to parks, swimming pools and sports ovals have been considered to encourage a ‘healthier’ lifestyle. However, inner-city suburbs can offer this too. If you lead a busy lifestyle and often don’t have the time to exercise, consider living in a suburb with bike tracks and within close proximity to shops, work and other amenities so that you can accrue your ’30 minutes a day’ incidentally.
Family-Friendly Facilities
If you have some little ones in tow, choosing a suburb to live in should be determined by its proximity to family-friendly facilities. Depending on the age of your children, choosing a suburb that has access to primary schools, high schools, sports programs other extra-curricular activities can be highly beneficial. If your children are of school age, as trivial as it sounds, you should also consider the bus routes. Unless you wish to commit to ferrying your little ones back and forth to school every day, putting this into consideration will be a lifesaver. When choosing a family friendly suburb, it is also important to consider its physical location as opposed to its proximity to facilities. Take the time to think about whether you would you want your children hemmed into an apartment by a six-lane highway or whether you would want them to have the joy of playing on quiet streets and expansive parks and ovals with their friends.
Lifestyle
When choosing your next home, it is important to consider the type of lifestyle you wish to lead. If you enjoy the fast-paced hum of the city, then choose and inner city suburb. Or, if you prefer the more subdued lifestyle of suburbia, consider buying your next home there. You really can’t be told which location suits you the best, this decision is down to your own gut feeling. If you have children, however, consider the community in which you wish them to be raised. As they say, it takes a village to raise a child.
Proximity to Work
When choosing a property, it is easy to get lost in the beauty of a white picket fence or the idealistic notion of acreage on the outskirts of the city. However, for the sake of your own sanity, it is vital to consider how living in your desired location will impact your work-life balance. Is your desired location close to a train station? Will you have to drive to work every day? Is there often congestion due to poor road design? Or is your ideal suburb simply too far away from your work? If you wish to spend quality time with your family and not be stuck in traffic every minute of the day, these are important questions for you to ask yourself before buying your next home, after all, you want to be able to enjoy your new property to the max.
No matter which of these considerations appeals to you the most, it is important to take the time to contemplate the lifestyle that you wish to create for you and your family and to keep this in mind when searching for your dream home, because choosing a location to suit your needs will have numerous positive benefits down the track.
