It's got a freeway, a shopping centre, a station, some buses, some trees, a hospital and some schools. That's about it I think?
The Y-man
Berwick has a far better and more direct freeway, more highways/bypasses/links, a better trainline, 2 train stations (beacy station is a1), fair few buses, Fountain Gate, more and bigger trees with an unmolested main street (historical preservation), Casey Hospital, numerous superclinics and specialists, Chisolm tafe, Monash University, St Maggots Girls College, Hailbury College and Nossal High School (top 3 school in the state... hello Chinese?), Wilsons Botanic Park, 2-3 prestige gold courses 5min up the road, proximity to Dandenong, beach, Brighton region, Phillip island.
I admit there's an extra 10min on the commute opposed to Ringwood station however there are express trains, and the trains run every 10 minutes opposed to every 30 minutes.
The land South of Clyde rd turns a lot of people off the area as it's become a bit of an Indian sprawl. If you go to Eden rise or Casey central you'll see it straight away, BUSY and significantally poorer demographic with traffic congestion and chaos. It's as though you've traveled to a new suburb once you go down Clyde rd. 8/10 people there are Indian can't drive and expect everyone to wait for them standing in traffic. Very very split demopgraphics there's a good 3-4km between O'shea Rd and the Princes hwy and the closer you go from Casey central Cranbourne the more uncivilized it becomes. From living here for over 17 years there appears to be 2 corridors one being Cranbourne the other Pakenham, the freeway and trainline on Clyde Rd separate them with commercial zoning inbetween.
I couldn't live in Ringwood for those exact reasons, reminds me of Berwick South/Cranbourne North except probably even more crime and noise pollution. But it's median is far above Berwicks.
All that downgrading into smaller homes to spare 10 minutes on the train everyday? Obviously more to it than that because I'll take the longer commute anyday! The median is 250k more than Berwick it has always been a renowned dump we find this hysterical. And for the record Doncaster is even more hysterical I wouldn't have lived there 10 years ago if you paid me to!!!
Hopefully when the Chinese have lived here for 20yrs and get a bearing of what constitutes a nice and desirable suburb, dumps such as Doncaster won't be desired more than actual nice areas to live. What's next??? Boradmeadows and Colac to reach 1 million dollar medians? I would've never picked a dump such as Doncaster to ever be in such high demand.