Anyone here from Sale or its environs?

[TheSnakeman]

That's what my mum says and she knows best!

[johnc]

Sale has a good hospital, likes to think it is the gateway to the Gippsland lakes system, and there is a train service to Melbourne. There are no specialty timber stores, and tools are all in the trade range, anything from rubbish to Makita/Metabo and the likes in power and hand tools in Stanley etc price range. It has a stable economy with the two biggest employers being the RAAF and Esso/BHP, it was unlucky that the oil came in the late 1960's before we discovered heritage and had a council stacked with developers, much of what was interesting was demolished. However it does have reasonable amenities, sports facilities including a heated swimming pool, and of course those useless pokies. The shopping is OK but you wouldn't travel for it, and there is the odd eatery.

It is nice and flat (to damn flat) but great for those with their motorised scooters, three nursing homes, two aged care hostels and one independant living development for the aged. There is also a whopping great prison, but that is a different story.

The surrounding area is irrigated and dry farming with a strong dairy sector and it is not far from lakes, rivers and the slopes that lead to the great dividing range. We are better off than much of northern Victoria's farmers thank goodness.

[Woodwould]

Sale has a good hospital, likes to think it is the gateway to the Gippsland lakes system, and there is a train service to Melbourne. There are no specialty timber stores, and tools are all in the trade range, anything from rubbish to Makita/Metabo and the likes in power and hand tools in Stanley etc price range. It has a stable economy with the two biggest employers being the RAAF and Esso/BHP, it was unlucky that the oil came in the late 1960's before we discovered heritage and had a council stacked with developers, much of what was interesting was demolished. However it does have reasonable amenities, sports facilities including a heated swimming pool, and of course those useless pokies. The shopping is OK but you wouldn't travel for it, and there is the odd eatery.

It is nice and flat (to damn flat) but great for those with their motorised scooters, three nusing homes, two aged care hostels and one independant living development for the aged. There is also a whopping great prison, but that is a different story.

The surrounding area is irrigated and dry farming with a strong dairy sector and it is not far from lakes, rivers and the slopes that lead to the great dividing range. We are better off than much of northern Victoria's farmers thank goodness.

Thanks John. The prison sounds handy. I'll probably end up there before the hospital.

[Woodwould]

I'm now concentrating on the Maffra area. Does anyone on the forum live in or close to Maffra or have any knowledge of the place? I'm particularly interested in areas prone to flooding, or should I say, green-ish areas that aren't prone to flooding.

[johnc]

I'm now concentrating on the Maffra area. Does anyone on the forum live in or close to Maffra or have any knowledge of the place? I'm particularly interested in areas prone to flooding, or should I say, green-ish areas that aren't prone to flooding.

you can PM me if you like and exchange numbers, much of the area is fairly flat and there are places such as Tinamba and Newry that tend to flood, Maffra has mainly high ground and Sale also, every town has houses on low ground that floods and we are no exception but you would be talking about only a small number.