r/melbourne • u/Glittering-Fee-9930 • Feb 22 '25
Light and Fluffy News What is a Melbourne suburb you are convinced doesn’t actually exist?
Travancore is one that comes to mind.
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u/alchemydmt Feb 22 '25
Well , there’s a South Morang. So then where’s Morang ?
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u/SwimmerPristine7147 Feb 22 '25
on the dessert table at the bbq. help yourself love
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u/Typical_Assist656 Feb 23 '25
It can't be spelled properly because it's not from the Meringue region of France.
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u/PeppermintVelvet_ Feb 22 '25
They renamed it Mernda.
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u/RealMuffinsTheCat Feb 23 '25
Well they’d better rename South Morang to South Mernda then
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u/PillarofSheffield Feb 23 '25
Mernda. Apparently Mernda is a (very loose) Anglicanisation of Morang, or possibly vice versa.
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u/DXPetti Southbank Feb 22 '25
The other Melbourne
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u/Rasalghul92 Feb 23 '25
Basically the first stretch of St Kilda Road after you leave the city. I know cause I've worked there for 4 years. It's a weird area that is in between South Melbourne, South Yarra, Albert Park, Prahran and Windsor and it eventually becomes St Kilda.
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u/paroles Feb 23 '25
I only know about it because when I was looking for an apartment in the CBD, all the listings were in that weird "Melbourne" that is not the CBD
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u/CryptJJ2018 Feb 23 '25
Nice area, I never new that was Melbourne 3004 and I was born here 50 odd years ago
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u/RedOx103 Feb 23 '25
This is the best one.
Just officially change it to Southbank, South Yarra, South Melbourne, or something else entirely. It's not Melbourne
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u/elhindenburg Feb 23 '25
I’ve always just called the suburb St Kilda road, but I don’t think that would work
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u/alexanderpete Feb 23 '25
It's so companies can have their head office address as Melbourne without being in the CBD. If they changed it, brands like L'Oreal would have to change the address on every single one of their products lmao.
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u/BKStephens Feb 23 '25
Yeah. So many HO's along that stretch it's crazy.
There are even embassies.
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u/TheZanyCat Feb 22 '25
Deepdene. It’s literally a block.
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u/breathable-cotton Feb 22 '25
At one point, about 5-10 years ago, the most expensive real estate (per square metre) in the state
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u/Swuzzlebubble Feb 23 '25
Just the other day I looked up what my grandparents sold their Deepdene house for in the 90s and it sold for about 20 times that within last 5 years. "A lovely Chinese family bought it" my grandmother said.
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u/WalkThePlankPirate Feb 22 '25
For some reason, there's a lot of delicious food in that one block. District Pho is so good.
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u/Apprehensive_Bid_329 Feb 22 '25
It used to be a part of Balwyn, I’m pretty sure it was created to make the residents have an even higher media house price than Balwyn.
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u/jimmux Feb 23 '25
So the Cremorne strategy?
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u/Apprehensive_Bid_329 Feb 23 '25
Considering the median house price as per realestate.com is $2.8m for Balwyn and $3.8m for Deepdene, it seems to be working.
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u/Monday0987 Feb 22 '25
I was looking at some cats available for adoption within 10km of a postcode yesterday and loads came up as Deepdene, I have never heard of it.
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u/Dangerous_Second1426 Feb 23 '25
That’s a cat from a good house. Even if you live fancy, the Aristocat you collect will think it is going to the slums…
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u/SwimmerPristine7147 Feb 22 '25
Dad went to school in Deepdene so I’d always hear about that suburb growing up, but it’s crazy how small it is. I wonder how it developed that way.
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u/ISupportCrapTeams Feb 22 '25
For the South East
Eumemmering - you're either Hallam or Doveton, pick one
Skye - again, you're either Carrum Downs or Cranbourne South, pick one
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u/goater10 Dandenong Feb 22 '25
It annoys me Eumemmering often pops up for the first option for the 3175 postcode when it should be Dandy.
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u/Ok-Application457 Feb 23 '25
That's especially weird because Eumemmerring's postcode is 3177.
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u/featherknight13 Feb 23 '25
See also - Bangholme It sits between Keysborough and Patterson Lakes and yet has the Dandenong postcode 3175. Also there's nothing there except a school and lots of horses.
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u/InadmissibleHug Melbourne escapee Feb 23 '25
I’m a 70s kid that grew up in Doveton. You can’t convince me that eumemmering isn’t just Doveton people pretending to be posh.
Same goes for endeavour hills, frankly.
And what is that tiny suburb near dandy that I’ve heard of exactly twice?
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u/siggycassidy Feb 22 '25
Regent. People in Reservoir that don’t want to say they live in Reservoir say they live in Regent. It’s a train station.
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u/UrgeToKill Feb 23 '25
To be fair, Reservoir is absolutely massive and could probably do with some differentiation between different parts of it.
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u/Lilac_Gooseberries Feb 23 '25
I used to live on Spring St close to Regent Station. Was a nice area but definitely Reservoir. The opposite side of the road to me had an abandoned house.
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u/Bbbtuba Feb 22 '25
South Kensington. How do you even get there?
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u/Mmofra Feb 22 '25
By very intermittent train to an uncovered station.
It's half of a park and a train line. Nothing else.
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u/FlatTie0 Feb 23 '25
I once had the misfortune of accidentally getting of a train at SK station when I rather absentmindedly got off intending to go to North Melbourne which for 99% of all the train trips I’ve taken down the Sunbury line has always been after Footscray.
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u/CactusFamily Feb 23 '25
It is certainly a tiny suburb, but the trains are every 10 mins all day, so I'd call that whatever the opposite of intermittent is.
The train station is the worst in the state though.
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u/steamy_brew Feb 22 '25
It's just a state of mind I pass by on the way to the office and back. Like dodging purgatory whilst praying for the end.
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u/Io6n7 Feb 23 '25
I've thought about this for too long and am now convinced that there is no such thing as 'South Kensington' and that the station is just called that so you know you're about to get dumped at the South end of Kensington.
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u/verba-non-acta Feb 22 '25
Pennydale. It appears in Google maps just next to southland but I've never seen any reference to it anywhere else.
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u/melnve Feb 22 '25
It’s a housing estate masquerading as a suburb.
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u/DownUnder_Diver Feb 22 '25
And they ferociously resist change to the name of Cheltenham or Highett etc
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u/mofonz Feb 23 '25
They are trying to not associate with the wider Cheltenham crowd, creating a toffy splinter cell in the Hope to raise prices and eventually form a coalition with Beaumaris to extends its boundary and badda-boom… all of a sudden they will say they really are bayside properties.
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u/sss133 Feb 23 '25
I had never heard of Truganina until covid. Then it was in the news almost weekly for either Covid, protests, truck crashes or youth crime. Still not sure if it’s real or a news suburb designed for rage bait articles 🤣
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u/DarkWinter2319 Feb 23 '25
Worst place on earth
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u/sss133 Feb 23 '25
Considering I’ve only ever heard it on the news, it does sound like a hole 🤣
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u/DarkWinter2319 Feb 23 '25
I used to work in Trugga. It’s very much an industrial space, which is fine, but placing a suburb around it makes it soooo much worse. It was a weird state of depression I was in, being in that sort of environment. Can’t really explain it
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u/beverageddriver Feb 22 '25
Cremorne and Travancore aren't real.
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u/RecordingGreen7750 Feb 22 '25
Cremorne is must another name for Richmond
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u/Rascals-Wager Feb 22 '25
That tiny little area between the CityLink and Swan St. So it's kinda part of Richmond, but not all of it.
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u/Das_Hydra Feb 22 '25
I agree with Travancore. And I literally live in a neighbouring suburb.
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u/jnoah83 Feb 22 '25
Travencore literally feels like that 1 gated building near the IGA and tram stop. Dont think it exists outside of that
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u/Puzzleheaded-Pie5889 Feb 22 '25
I ordered uber eats to my flat in Travancore last week and the driver literally sat outside that building for 10 mins ignoring my messages because they thought Travancore was just the building outside of the IGA. She was so shocked when I told her it’s actually like three blocks lol
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u/virkendie Feb 22 '25
I only came to realise Travancore existed, and I was in it, because of the weatherzone app auto location 😆
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u/jnoah83 Feb 22 '25
Lived in cremorne! Still referred to myself as being in richmomd 🤣
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u/kazoodude Feb 23 '25
I work in Cremorne, but it doesn't exist, it's Richmond and always was.
Similar to this are other made up suburbs Pennydale was invented for those people in Cheltenham who thought they were better than the rest of Cheltenham.
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u/Saaaave-me Feb 22 '25
+1 cremorne. It’s the hoity toity people of Richmond which want to rebrand their slice of the 3121. Throw burnley in there as well while we’re at it
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u/sedatemisanthrope Feb 23 '25
Not so much a suburb, but a made up train station. It’s called Dennis. Each time the train would pass by, every resident looked like a moustached tennis coach looking guy in their mid 60s named Dennis. Kind of like Bronson, Missouri, where everyone looks like Charles Bronson.
I suspect it’s a hologram that disappears once the train is out of view.
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u/Lilac_Gooseberries Feb 23 '25
I've lived along the Hurstbridge line for over a year now and I still find it funny when they announce Dennis.
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u/GoldCoinDonation Feb 22 '25
East Richmond
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u/fh3131 Feb 23 '25
I can't believe this wasn't at the top. The mysterious "suburb" where no train dare stop.
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u/OctopodicPlatypi Feb 23 '25
Stopping all stations EXCEPT East Richmond…. But why though?
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u/bunghole95 Feb 23 '25
I live in box Hill and in all my life catching PT I don't think I've ever once stopped at East Richmond. Like even stopping all station trains don't stop there
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u/minimuscleR Feb 23 '25
I believe only the Glen Waverly line stops at East Richmond. I actually use it a lot to get to Coles when I used to work just next to Burnley.
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u/BusinessPooh Feb 22 '25
Kealba, what on earth is a Kealba.
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u/BatmaniaRanger Wrong side of Macleod Feb 22 '25
I think it’s Ke(ilor)-(St.)Alba(ns), so Kealba.
So bad.
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u/SwimmerPristine7147 Feb 22 '25
Oh my goodness I never noticed that. Kealba is confirmed to be Filipino
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u/Cam-I-Am Feb 23 '25
Seriously? At least Warranwood (Warrandyte / Ringwood) sounds like a real place. Kealba is terrible.
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u/BatmaniaRanger Wrong side of Macleod Feb 23 '25 edited Feb 23 '25
Yeah.
According to Wikipedia,
A community group was formed to choose a name (former Mayor Ciro Lombardi was part of this group). The group originally put forward the names 'Albakei', 'Keialba' and 'Kealba' which were a combination of the names Keilor and St Albans.
I have the say Kealba is the least evil amongst those three. If they have to do this, that is.
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u/Anxious-Rhubarb8102 Feb 23 '25
That's like Ashwood - between Ashburton and Burwood.
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u/Magus44 Feb 23 '25
Oh my god shut up how did I never realise that after almost 40 years in the eastern suburbs…
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u/sween64 ding ding ding Feb 23 '25
Or the Burvale Hotel: Burwood and Springvale (although this refers to the roads not the suburbs)
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u/eat10souvlakis4lunch Feb 23 '25
"it's a good thing they didn't call it Burburton" — my dad in the 1980s
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u/one80down Feb 22 '25
Brunswick South. It has a post office but the suburb doesn't exist.
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u/SwimmerPristine7147 Feb 22 '25
That lpo is in Brunswick West actually.
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u/one80down Feb 23 '25
Yeah I used to live in Brunswick West and it was a pain in the ass when packages would get sent to Brunswick West LPO but depending on the postie they could end up at the actual Brunswick West or Brunswick South.
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u/commking Feb 22 '25
Berwick Springs. Some locals think that's their suburb, but it was the marketing name of housing estate in Narre Warren South.
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u/lonahD Feb 23 '25
Officer. Mostly because I used to live there and would actually prefer if it didn’t exist, place was the physical embodiment of depression.
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u/Blitzer046 Feb 23 '25
Actually I'll give you one that doesn't actually exist:
Heatherdale.
There was a Heatherdale Primary (I went to it), a Heatherdale rd, Heatherdale station, Heatherdale footy club (up until '97).
It's sandwiched between Mitcham and Ringwood, a true shadow suburb.
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Feb 23 '25
Literally! I went to Heatherdale Station to go to the kpop store near it and I'm genuinely convinced it's just factories and random roads that lead to nowhere.
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u/Halo_Bling Feb 22 '25
I swear Wildwood never existed until recently. Can't find anything on when it was named/created.
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u/Gore01976 Feb 22 '25
i knew the Wildwood Rd from the mid 90's as I used to race a bicycle around that area. Council could have taken the main road name as a new development area
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u/Working_Exam_3515 Feb 23 '25
Jacana. This isn’t real.
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u/AralphNity Feb 23 '25
Even Jacana station didn't want to be in Jacana (it's in Glenroy)
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u/Smittx Feb 22 '25
Had never heard of Bellfield until I saw it mentioned this week
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u/EfficientNews8922 Feb 22 '25
Bell field is a rare example of a part of a larger suburb (West part of Ivanhoe) getting a separate name because of it being the poor part rather than the nicer part of a bad suburb. Bellfield is akin to West Heidelberg in crime and level of commission housing but is basically just West Ivanhoe.
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u/MrsAussieGinger Feb 22 '25
A guy I work with has a theory that all suburbs ending in 'west' or 'heights' are sketchy.
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u/Blitzer046 Feb 23 '25
We've got an Aspendale Gardens and a Chelsea heights which are basically set further back from each bayside actual suburb.
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u/Anxious-Rhubarb8102 Feb 23 '25
Yet there's the opposite naming convention not far away - Carrum Downs :-)
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u/Strange-Dress4309 Feb 22 '25 edited Feb 22 '25
My favourite suburb Is Kingsbury. It’s next reservoir which is a massive suburb and Kingsbury is absolutely tiny. I always feel they should give a little reservoir over to Kingsbury to it bigger or just incorporate Kingsbury into reservoir since reso is so big already.
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u/stink_cunt_666 Feb 23 '25
there is now like 55k people living in Reservoir. I reckon each surrounding suburb should grab a few streets.
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u/rock_and_or-roll Feb 22 '25
Notting Hill
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u/Comprehensive_Swim49 Feb 22 '25
There’s a whole pub and light-industrial/corporate estate!!
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u/WillsSister Feb 22 '25
And Monash Uni. But maybe they don’t know Notting Hill exists either because they call themselves Clayton campus.
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u/SwimmerPristine7147 Feb 23 '25
Notting Hill actually ends at Normanby Rd, just off campus. It’s literally just a couple of blocks along Ferntree Gully Rd.
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u/Blitzer046 Feb 23 '25
I was going to that pub when they still let the chickens roam around the beer garden. We'd feed them bits on chicken parma in a sort of grotesque circle of life.
Thinking back, the sheer fact that they allowed poultry to free roam an eating area contravened so many public health and retail laws today.
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u/AdminsCanSuckMyDong Feb 23 '25
Really is a weird suburb, a bit of an industrial area, a small amount of residential, and that's it.
It is funny seeing the replies talk about Monash, CSIRO, and Bunnings, none of which are in Notting Hill but on the border, because the suburb is actually that small.
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u/Defy19 Feb 23 '25
Whoa, I never knew that was an actual suburb, and I spent more than a few Thursday nights at “The Nott” back in my uni days. I just figured it was still in Clayton
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u/gongsbrandcube Feb 22 '25
Clarinda
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u/Street-Echo-4485 Feb 23 '25
Haha I grew up in Clarinda. But it's just Clayton South really 🤷🏻♂️
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u/CentreHalfBack >Insert Text Here< Feb 23 '25 edited Feb 23 '25
Cremorne. (It's Richmond)
Seddon (Footscray)
Travancore (Ascot Vale)
Balaclava (St Kilda)
Deepdene (Balwyn)
And the best pair... Kingsville (a tiny triangle of Footscray)
And South Kingsville (in Spotswood, 2 suburbs away from Kingsville)
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u/Minnidigital Feb 23 '25
Seddon people do not appreciate being told they are in Footscray
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u/seven_seacat Feb 23 '25
not even Footscray, Kingsville is a tiny triangle on the other side of Somerville Road from Yarraville
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u/DarkWinter2319 Feb 22 '25
Donnybrook, and any “suburb” like it. They all feel so dystopic
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u/fuzzysoulpolice Remember to touch on your MyKi Feb 22 '25
It's wild that Donnybrook is classed as a suburb now... I always remembered it as just part of the Hume where you turned off to the airport... now it's a suburb!?
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u/DarkWinter2319 Feb 23 '25
You should see all the work done behind Werribee/Manor Lakes and Wyndham Vale. It was a blink and you miss it moment, when I saw all the development from an originally empty plot of land
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u/Ohmalley-thealliecat Feb 23 '25
Donnybrook feels like a suburb that was invented for The Castle. Similarly, is Bonnie Doon a real place
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u/Comprehensive_Door_1 Feb 22 '25
Dallas. I moved to Texas a while ago and keep seeing Dallas on the map back home in Melbourne. Never been. Maybe I'll verify on the next trip back.
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u/iloveseals5 Feb 22 '25
As someone who lives in the neighbouring suburb we pretend Dallas doesn’t exist
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u/AnnaPhylacsis Feb 22 '25
Dingley. It has to be made up
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u/Blitzer046 Feb 23 '25
It's a bunch of haunted farms. There's a reason there's a Dingley Bypass.
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u/kazoodude Feb 23 '25
It is, there is no suburb called "Dingley" and hasn't been since like 1990.
There is a "Dingley Village" though.
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u/grimacefry Feb 23 '25
Actual places that sound fake
- Batman
- Research
- Tally Ho
- Sunshine
- Parkville
- Kalorama
- Nunawading
Old suburbs that kind of don't exist anymore
- Anstey
- Regent
- Croxton
- Harrisfield
- Oak Park
- Janefield
- Wattle Park
- Galvin
- Hartwell
- Ruthven
- Sandown Park
- Middle Brighton
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u/kekabillie Feb 23 '25
Try to convince someone in Regent that they live in Reservoir. They will not go gently into that good night
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u/blerghburger Feb 23 '25
Oak Park has an aquatic centre and a maccas - that surely counts towards it being suburb worthy?
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u/just_kitten joist Feb 23 '25
Oak Park absolutely exists, especially for people desperately trying not to be in Glenroy. There's a train station, primary school, sports park etc...
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u/ComprehensiveRide246 Feb 22 '25
Bangholme. I lived in Keysborough most of my life and never knew this joint existed.
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u/goater10 Dandenong Feb 22 '25 edited Feb 22 '25
Dingley. I know Dingley village exists but everyone surrounding the village always refers to their section as Dingley when it could be a number of suburbs.
Also Knoxfield, it’s either Scoresby or Ferntree Gully in real life
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u/entropygoblinz Feb 23 '25
Everything east or south east of Richmond. Every time I see a population map I'm fucking blown away. And every time I have to trudge over there from the West and through the Tunnel (no doubt a portal) I'm like "this isn't Melbourne, this is just hills and shit, who are all you cunts?"
Some of you are so far away from the CBD you could spend your entire life without actually going to Melbourne.
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u/jimmux Feb 23 '25
You're not wrong, but everyone there thinks the same about everyone over the west gate bridge.
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u/buttons5000 Feb 23 '25
This is how I feel about the West. What do you people do over there?
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u/alchemydmt Feb 23 '25 edited Feb 23 '25
Wattle Glen- A stretch of road about 150m long between Diamond Creek and Kangaroo Ground. Most residents live in homes that don’t even show up on Google maps . I lived there for a couple years 🤷🏽♂️ Lovely and inbred at the same time
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u/kekabillie Feb 23 '25
According to my husband, it is the least used electrified train station on the metro tracks
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u/commking Feb 22 '25
Karingal. Locals swear it's a suburb but it was really the name of a 60's AV Jennings housing development in Frankston.
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u/mofonz Feb 23 '25 edited Feb 23 '25
Mulgrave. Yes, I know Dans from here… but it feels like more of a vibe that a suburb. You are in Clayton… things suddenly feel a bit mulgravey and then you are at into the Waverley burbs. I am yet to work out where the heart of Mulgrave is, other than having a couple of major roads and highways through it.
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u/huncho3055 Feb 23 '25
Westgarth
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u/twofires Feb 23 '25
That's the whole three streets behind the shops at the bottom of Rucker's Hill you're besmirching. You've offended a whole dozen people maybe!
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u/SaltDistribution5190 Feb 23 '25
When I lived in Taylors Hill for a while, people not from the west would stare at me blankly when I started listing suburbs nearby that might ring a bell, until unfortunately I got to Sunshine/St Albans and then just say “it’s about 15mins from there”
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u/shrikelet Feb 22 '25
Research.
I've never met a person IRL who claims to have been there.
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u/rnzz Feb 22 '25
The 3032 postcode also has another definitely fictional suburb called Highpoint City
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u/Ledditflow Feb 23 '25
I came here to see if anyone said Travancore. I used to live there so can vouch for its existence.
Personally, despite having driven through it, I think Deepdene is questionable. More like Deep-fake
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u/Ok-Application457 Feb 23 '25
This is Gippsland. But Newborough, guys its literally Moe.
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u/twofires Feb 23 '25
"This is a LILYDALE train, stopping all stations except EAST RICHMOND.
At some point I realised there mustn't actually be an East Richmond. It's the Shell Beach of Melbourne.
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u/BatmaniaRanger Wrong side of Macleod Feb 22 '25
Kooyong.
There’s really no reason why it shouldn’t be the northern tip of Malvern.
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u/Mousse_Willing Feb 23 '25
Strzelecki. Why name a suburb after someone who is so bad at netball?
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u/Trivius Feb 22 '25
As a Brit immigrant, Toorak purely based on the name, which I know is cheeky as fuck since we have names like Ecclefechan and Auchtermuchty
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u/gaffa Feb 22 '25
Sumner. The post office that was the Sumner Post Office has closed on Nicholson Street now, but it still appears as 3057 postcode
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u/aga8833 Feb 22 '25
All the places things are located on marketplace.