south eastern suburbs for the win!! more east though, suburbs like vermont, glenwaverly, vermont south, blackburn, nunawading, burwood, box hill, ringwood north, wantirna, warranwood, wheelers hill, endevour hills, mitcham, donvale, templestowe, surry hills etc etc are really good places, not much trouble, close to EVERYTHING, 30-45mins public transport to the city. great bunch of people, great selection of food, multicultural. and im pretty sure a whole bunch of SAU members are from these or around these suburbs, that would/should agree with me.
not to mention, Vermont South in the top 10 suburbs of melbourne from an unknown source :D lol