I have lived in Perth for 40 years, originally from the UK. Why don't you simply tell viewers that living anywhere in Western Australia is far better than living anywhere in the UK.

I have lived in Perth my whole life. Something worth mentioning is that the further from the coast you go you will see a significant change in the temperature. I was living on the coast in scarborough and ocean reef for the last 4 years and now live in Guildford. We are coming into summer at the moment and it is between 5-10c hotter in the eastern suburbs than it is on the coast.. even if you drive from Guildford to the ocean in the afternoon youll see the digital temperature notification in your car dropping as you get closer to the ocean. When its hot along the coast the sea breeze brings some respite in the afternoons, when you're living east its just stinking hot all the time so if anyones moving here and doesnt like the heat, stay close to the ocean if you can. Edit: right now at 5pm it is 33.9C in guildford and 25.7C in scarborough at the same time of the day almost 8c temp difference

Live in Perth and have been here for decades. Pretty accurate description! Well done.

Just as I hunt down for a youtuber to watch, I see your notif! I’m gonna grab a green tea and watch this on my laptop instead! Haha 💙

The median house price in Perth is around $600,000. The industrial areas are Welshpool and Kwinana. If your working in the city then pick an area that has a train station close by don’t drive as the congestion on the freeways is as bad as the Uk at peek times. Most people go the Margaret river area for vacation. You omitted areas that are further south that have excellent infrastructure Waikiki, Safety bay, Baldivis, Mandurah. Travel cost on public transport is very reasonable e.g I can get to the Airport using a bus/Train for $4 or travel from Rockingham to Joondalup for the same amount. The Rockingham area has some of the best beaches in Perth and I can travel to them by car in 5 mins. Pick an area that suits your lifestyle and finances but be aware that rentals can be hard to get and are not cheap.

Thanks for the info, super helpful and your knowledge having only lived there 2 years is great. Thank you!

Great video! Thanks for making it! Would definitely love to see your spotlight ideas (mainly NOR 😉) Another one I’d love to watch would be your Top 10 brunch/lunch/dinner restaurants etc!

The public transport is very good for a city of its size. Don’t stress about getting close to the city if your work is in the CBD. Driving might do your head in with the highway infrastructure a bit behind other cities in peek times. Just choose a superb on the train line. Very affordable in the outer suburbs, lots of shopping and bars in the suburbs everywhere. Iv lived all over Australia and have been very happy living/raising a family in Baldivis the last 10 years. So many wonderful playgrounds for children. Better than many other cities in Australia.

Very helpful, useful and informative, indeed. Thanks, Cat!

Lived in Perth most of my life and know all the suburbs well. The motto is live close to the coast and out of the inner city hub unless your an apartment dweller used to noise or your into nature in the hills Where you live if buying is driven by your budget/price range. The golden triangle you mention is some of the most expensive land in Perth and a magnet for the wealthy. Have owned a few homes in different suburbs over the years but gravited back to South Duncraig where we love it. Our land as 1,350m2 so very large but very little lawn out the front only so it is low maintenance with Bali style backyard. Many schools nearby & major shopping centres close including Karrinyup, Whitlfords, Warwick & Joondalup. Out local pub is Carine Tavern & Hillarys Marina is close by. Tons of restaraunt choices nearby In reality anywhere up and down the coastal strip is great. My wife is English from Cornwell and very well travelled globally but just idolises Perth and adores our climate. She hates the cold now and could not ever live back in the UK. We are outdoors/beach people and our go to places are lancelin & Dunsborough and anywhere in between - 4WD & camping but we like all the WA coast scene and have travelled it extensively including living in Broome for 3yrs

Hi Cat, enjoying your videos. I’m having an interview in 2 weeks for deployment to Perth after 6 months training in Switzerland first. Currently live in Manchester. Your videos are insightful and helping me imagine life in Perth!

I might be moving to Perth with my boyfriend next year and I really enjoy your videos, so informative and side note I think you’re so gorgeous !!!!

I thought you've done a really good job describing the northern suburbs, over 60 years living here I thought you nailed it 👍😉 There are 4 zones for Perth, the Northern (tradies and English), Western (multimillionaires), Eastern (working class) and Southern (a mixed bag of demographics). The river suburbs are all uniquely placed demanding higher prices along it's length. Perth is sandwiched between the ocean to the west and the hills to the east and I believe we are now Mandurah to the south to Two Rocks in the north making Perth the longest city in the world. Be prepared for very congested travel north and south on the Freeways but if you work in the CBD the rail network is tailored to you.

Thank you ever so much for sharing. It is so encouraging to hear such a wealth off knowledge from someone quite new to our wonderful city. So glad you have chosen Perth as you new home. Isn't Fremantle just awesome? Our family is fortunate enough to only about 5km from the Perth CBD. We can get to the City within minutes on a bus. In our neck of the woods [ mount Lawley, Inglewood , Dianella and Bedford] we don't don't have freeways and motor ways cutting the neighbourhood in half. We are so lucky. For those who don't like driving or live a car free lifestyle this neighbourhood is ideal as it is so close to everything however the properties are pricey so units, appartments or town houses could be a more affordable option.

Swan Valley, new suburbs like Dayton and the Vines are so lucky to have some worlds best wines at their doorstep, even just Perth as a whole are lucky to have the swan valley so close. Still only 25 minutes to the city and Scarborough beach and with a large majority of West Australians working in the Mines it’s close to the airport. Perth has very minimal rough spots.

Any where near Warwick, Hamersley, Duncraig, Carine etc(north of the river) 14 - 20kms from the city centre are pretty cool. Lots of shopping areas, cinemas,restaurants and cafes and heaps of train stations to take you directly into the City centre for work or entertainment.

Scarborough used to be a very working class area not too long ago with a transient population so it was a good place to own a rental property. It’s profile and tbh scruffy sea front (that was always about to be upgraded) kept it very affordable. It’s improved a lot over the last fifteen years though.

Very useful info thanks

I live in Yanchep, moved from Nollamara last year. Yanchep is a beautiful coastal place to live but has always been considered too far from Perth especially if you work in the city which is quite common. The train station will be up and running in 2023 in Yanchep (last stop up north from Perth) and also closer suburbs such as Ellington and Alkimo will have their own train station open in 2023! So I recommend coming up further north. So many new builds under construction!

Great video, me and my partner are thinking of moving in the next 5 years

Good effort !!!

Perth is a very big city space wise and it's very difficult to cover every part of it in a short video with so many new areas popping up. Generally Perth is affordable and you get what you pay for. Like other cities the cheaper place comes with higher crime rate and the houses aren't as nice etc... You did a good job covering the key areas and the Yuppies do live close to night-life and beach-life and families live further away from yuppies. Asian migrants first like to live in apartments as that is what they are use to at their home country and it's perceived as better security until they become custom to Australia way of life and choose to live in the suburbs with more space to grow their own food south of the river.

I live in south Perth (mill point road) I moved here from the UK in November and absolutely love my location..although Perth in general is a great place

Thank you!

Just be aware we have a massive rental property shortage inPerth that is unlikely to ease in the short term. Try to make sure you have somewhere for the first few weeks at least, especially if on a budget.

I've lived in Forrestfield ( Perth Hills) for over 20 years and I love it ... 20 mins from the city, 30 mins to the beach, but right on the front door to hiking trails/ waterfalls, sporting clubs and close to the Swan Valley wine area.

thanks for the fair dinkum review :)

It is important to mention that atm not easy to find accommodation in Perth.. but South Perth is defo the best place to live.

Lots of folk want to live near to the coast and this is where Perth has experienced the most urban sprawl (coastal belt). You get the sea breeze in summer which has a cooling effect aside from just wanting to live close to the beach. It gets very hot here in summer! House prices have gone bonkers here recently with a lack of new stock and the pressure from an uptick in immigration. Expect to make an offer on the day over the asking price although most property on the market just invites offers as the market is moving so fast. You need a 20% deposit to avoid Lenders Mortgage Insurance (LMI) or a minimum of 5% with LMI. LMI can add thousands to your total cost of purchase (fees). Perth is an amazing place with arguably the best climate in Australia. Buy into the best suburb you can afford even if it feels a stretch. Perth is still comparatively cheap to the rest of Australia’s cities so house prices will continue to rise as more investors eye up Perth.

When you say “ex-pat” areas, are you referring to British people specifically or More generally? I’m 63 and have lived inPerth since moving there as an eight year old as ten pound poms. We lived in an immigrant area specifically built for the influx. However I’ve also lived for many years in Asia as an “ex-pat” on job contracts but I always felt the difference was that an immigrant is making a permanent move to a country as a life change and ex-pats were moving through their work on a more flexible basis an without officially emigrating. I’m an immigrant but do you consider yourself an immigrant or ex-pat? so I’m just curious to know what your viewers feel the difference is.

Perth's rental market is absolutely bonkers at the moment, in some areas,up to 17% rises,insane!.

Jfyi Swan valley is booming with houses from caversham to Bullsbrook with the wine region close by 😊

I gonna move to Perth next month can you recommend which suburb that I should live in case that I work in the CBD, Now I am looking at leederville, west leederville..subiaco Not sure west perth is quite a good area where it closes to CBD, safe, and easy to find meals, grocery??

I am thinking of moving to Western Australia with my family. We would like to live coastal near the beach with affordable housing. What is Golden Bay like? Or Rockingham? Thanks for the help in advance

Hi there , i think an update would be great on the same topic at this time...

How you can miss Victoria Park..Kensington..East Vic.Park...???5 km from the city???700 -thousands $$$ give you great living!!

I would be grateful of a few videos on areas within the Golden Triangle. I am 40 this month and still single so looking for areas with some life and things to do but defo not clubbing haha those days are long long gone.

i just come and stay perth 2 years, great and beatutiful place indeed. will be great if you can do the similar for brisbance.

Thanks for this Cat, I have accepted a job offer in Perth from the UK so going for another 482 visa. This video will help me decide where to live. Aiming for an October 2023 landing as I have to do 3 months notice for my UK job and dare not resign before getting the 482 work visa approved.

Just remember if you are renting the market is mental so you may not get the suburb you actually want

Since you guys are a young couple and may be with a couple of children later, the best places for you would be Leederville or West Leederville or may be Mt Hawthorn or North Perth. I recommend you check them out.

Ooh inner city like Mt Lawley, Leederville, Subiaco, Mt Hawthorn not bad, Sth Perth, Freo for grungy cool, if money was no object Cottesloe, Nedlands for a nice mid century family home.... so many cool burbs...that I probably couldn't afford if I chose to live in WA and not just visit family. 🤣

Churchlands the best suburb in perth. 1.5M - 3M should get a decent home very close to cbd, good schools, restaurants,zero chrimes etc.

Best place south of the river is Applecross. Beautiful, but SUPER expensive.

Cat mentions Perth hills area far from the city and ocean....... driving a car you can get from the east side of Kalamunda or Darlington to the beach (Cotts or Scarbs) in 30 -45 minutes or less depending on where you are in the hills area......The city in 30 mins and the airport in 15 minutes or less......thats not bad considering ....lots of other cities around Australia and the world that are much longer trips to get to the beach or city.....so big land, less congestion and great schools....the Perth hills area isn't just for people to retire, its great for families with kids where there is plenty of land as mentioned, less crime, massive homes that makes much more sense than living in boxes built on a postage stamp that has you 15 minutes to the beach. Also easy to go to the north side or south of Perth and beyond from the hills area.

Also the crime map link you put up is from 2011 date which is 12 years ago. Perth's population has increased almost 700,000 since then. I'd wager that Northern suburbs are going up in crime as the population increases.

You really need to do some geography and history. Willeton, Booragoon and Palmyra (pronounced as it is spelled) are many, many kilometres from the Canning, Canning Vale, Gosnells and Cockburn areas. Fremantle is the anchor suburb, and roads going to most places spoke off and radiate out from Fremantle as a hub, and you can easily walk from both Willeton and Palmyra into Fremantle. Booragoon is a huge suburb overlooking the Swan River and has one of the largest shopping centres in the state. Fiona Stanley Hospital is located adjacent to Murdoch University of South Street and an easy walk from Winthrop (over Leach Highway from Booragoon). Fremantle is shaped by its history. Palmyra is shaped by the influence of the Swan River. Willeton is shaped by its history as a Housing Commission suburb. Most of the suburbs around Perth have a definite cultural feel to them. The river is a phantom divide. A more tangible mental map is the spoke and hub one where Fremantle is the hub and the spokes are the main road and rail networks that feed from it.

I lived in a lot of areas in Perth, I loved living in South Perth and Warnbro.

Good luck finding something "affordable" in a decent area anywhere in Perth. Prices have risen insanely in the last few years. We're in Iluka 35km from the cbd. Even the most modest of family homes are now well over $1 million. Finding a rental is almost impossible.

The best place to live in Perth is Albany. Perth's best asset is the Airport so you can see the place at 10,000 feet as you migrate to somewhere worth living in. Make sure you avoid a decentralised sprawl of cloned boxes with no street trees and massive air con bills. A place of shopping malls built as tax dodges by monopolistic developers. Perth is hot, polluted, conforming , harassed by Bogans, on road off road dirt bikes, 4wd bullies, both FIFO males and Moms, , and high meth addiction.

Scarborough is heavily built out with Apartments

Sorry, just realised this a year old. Hope all went well for you.

Spearwood,Coogee,Kardinya,Fremantle, Lancelin

I’ve been looking at moving to Perth. I’m an Aussie citizen living in Sydney. Is it hard to move? I have good work experience and currently work as a senior analyst for a large organisation

The problem with the Northern suburbs is that there is nothing there. Very few facilities compared to the South.

we are thinking about secret harbour or golden bay. hope those areas are fine )

Does anybody know if Bus drivers are in demand over there?

Perth seems the N1 city in australia: perfect climate, beach near and swimmable (?) during the summer, strong economy, cost of living non that much high compared to 21 ausd / h... Whats the scam so? Seems too perfect to be true (im italian, just chilling and looking for oz in the future after getting Msc in economics)... In my zone houses are 3000 euros / mq2 / 500 to a singole room with 1500 of income LOL

Is Cockburn where the nudist’s beach is?

South of river > North of river

Innaloo , double view and sorrento all been vreat plaves to live . Mived to wa in 05 and lived in variuos olaces . Eaxh has their own charms . As one above said , its much better than the uk anywhwre . Just £££££

Shes got ASMR qualities. I think it is how she says Perth.

I just want to give you some feedback and tips for your channel. Take it with a grain of salt. First, if you’re trying to attract a new audience, your intro is too long and the pause after your intro is too long. Try and cut each sentence down to around 10 seconds. (So 10 seconds for each ‘cut’) There’s heaps more, but just start with those and I think you’ll find your 30 second fall off (retention) will benefit. (I have another youtube channel, I do the same thing) Again, take it or leave it, it’s up to you.

Lived in joondalup .. little Britain lol

Would love to retire there due to me being over 55 love kings park just need to win euromillions lottery

The south west is the best place to be in WA far away from the Perth rat race thanks very much 😊

I've lived & rented (until 2013) in various Perth suburbs- Leederville, Wembley, Innaloo, Balga, Sorrento, Hillarys, & now Jindalee. I'm NOT moving again! When I first moved to Perth (1988) there weren't many people here, & finding a rental was similar to going to the supermarket to get something, & there wasn't much crime. And NOW? Just the opposite.

No one in there right minds lives south of the river except along the river to Fremantle.

I lived in Perth for 20 years (always NOR)..I’ve now been in Melbourne 16 years. The way u talk about things u love sounds like u should be in Melbourne too!

Just warm hello to pet lover from cat lovers channel!

Do you think Perth is a suitable city for illegal immigrant looking for cash job?

The south has a different vibe to it. The north is very characterless once you get about 4 or 5Kms north of the city. Joondalup and places around are like Milton Keynes on steroids. And the distances are huge. Joondalup to the city is 30kms. And it is expensive. Saying Leeming in the south is affordable is comparatively. A family house in Leeming is still $850k to $1.2m. But you do get a house and garden and likely a pool too.

Perth is not smack bang in the middle of the west coast

guildford is NOT as it sounds. it has a silent D

Carrying on to much

Perthetic.

East coast place to be nothing on the West coast , those that disagree have never left that state to see what's on the other side oooh the dark side lol.

5 minutes of yap before the actual video😂

melville and cockburn area are the best, near freo the beach/river and not to far from the city. ps north of the river is for losers ;)

Places to avoid 😬 Midland & surrounds Armadale & surrounds (the worst) Rockingham Kwinana Lockridge Balga Mirrabooka Coolbellup These are the worst areas in my opinion. Everything else is okay. West is nice, eastern suburbs are bad. Until you get to the hills it gets nice again, it’s weird. I live in Bassendean and it’s a good spot.

I like your beard

Perth is situated in a seismic active zone. It is prone to earthquakes. Don't forget the snakes in Australia.

oh no with videos like this there will be even more than the current (nearly) 2m poms here...yes we need immigrants but not such a massive proportion from a single mid sized country on the other side of the planet, even regardless of those white-anglo colonial ties.

That was the worst video about Perth suburbs I have ever watched You only spoke about 5 suburb's south of the river You should hope in your car and come for a look there are some gems along the coast that don't cost a fortune

Mandurah horrible, crime crime crime

23 mins in and you still haven’t got to the point of the video. Terrible! Switched off.

I lived at east perth high-rise apartment with whole swan river view is super convenient and enjoy cycling or jogging all the way to nice casino guys !!! 👍🍺👍

Hi, Cat! Hope you're well! Really enjoy your videos by the way! I wondered if you could advise me on the state of the rental market in Perth's surrounding areas currently? Areas such as Joondalup. I am in process of obtaining a visa for myself and my family and we are looking to be on the outskirts of Perth, happy to live 45 mins to an hour away but have heard negative stuff about the availability of rentals but our agents assures me if we are happy to be on outskirts, we will be fine. Hope you don't mind me asking Thanks

Scarborough pool is a joke. It's right on the beach and idiots prefer to pay to swim in chemicals instead of the ocean.