I didn’t realise this was a 10 year old thread, but i have lived in Norlane since early 2010, and am very happy here. Specifically the ‘better’ area is probably the Norlane West area, but in the time since this thread was started there’s been a huge amount of new development in Norlane, in all areas, with new houses and units rapidly filling up the old 50’s style weatherboard places built when the suburb was first populated.

Bunnings opened a brand new hardware store right on the corner opposite the Norlane Hotel a few years ago, and this has helped a bit too attracting people at least to the suburb, if only to merely shop there. But the key aspect is it’s accessibility. Very easy to get to major shopping areas, like Corio Village, Bell Post, Separation St, and it’s only 10 minutes to Geelong anyway. If you want to go to Melbourne it’s a 50 minute drive. Even now, in Dunloe Ave a 4 bedroom 50’s house on 670m2 sold at auction for $225K yesterday. Where else can houses on big blocks be bought this close to major cities at those prices? But in contrast to that there are new bigger houses in Norlane West that have been going for amounts in the high $300K’s as well. Much cheaper than Melbourne, and indeed in an article in the Herald Sun yesterday too, titled ‘Victoria’s most affordable places to buy a home’ Norlane was listed in 8th place, with a median of $220K. Of the 10 towns listed, only Norlane is within cooee of major cities like Melbourne and Geelong. Like i said, been here since 2010 and am very happy here.

• This reply was modified 9 years ago by  Laneman.