We’ve all seen those areas of Melbourne which are appearing with miles and miles of McMansions that seem far too big for any reasonably sized household. Your average McMansion floor plans seem more like a castle than a house.
Experts bicker about their place in managing intelligent growth of neighbourhoods. It’s better to have a humble home, they proclaim – especially in the housing market we’re confronted with. However there’s a great deal of areas out there crowded with these types of homes.
Perhaps they’re on their way out of style – a brief glance at resources such as Domain shows many McMansions for sale right now.
So where is the crummiest area in Melbourne filled with Mc Mansions and why?
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Melbourne Caulfield victoria 3162. inner city mcmansion suburb
drive around the side streets you see mcmansions in every streetscape
the new estate in bundoora. i don’t know why. millpark/bundoora is also a great place to be harassed by racist hoons, or so my friend from bundoora tells me.
The reason i chose caulfield to be the worst mcmansions suburb.
Caulfield is the suburb for housing affordability crsis.
Exspensive land unaffordable.
Mcmansions in caulfield cost over $1.5million
Caulfield is a nice area low crime no hooners.
Toorak
I reckon all of Caulfield (City of Glen Eira), has been ruined by ugly and monotonous McMansions, thankgod Glen Eira still has some heritage laws that has saved Bentleigh & Elsternwick from this ugly intrusion.
Also nearby Beaumaris has some ugly McMansions, but unlike Caulfield, Beaumaris is a more modern bayside suburb and the McMansions don’t look so obvious.
i think Point Cook is McMansion Central. It is FULL of them, spilling out into trendy new suburbs called “Truganina”, “Captains’ Landing” and Tarneit. Its feral. I used to live in one that was in long row of exactly the same design McMansion, and on occasion Id almost go into the wrong one! :(