Advantages

Some of the advantages to living in Docklands:

I can walk across the Stadium concourse to Southern Cross Station and meet Freyja for coffee on a Sunday morning when she is on her way to visit Ballarat.

I can then catch a train to Alphington and meet Simon at the Alphington Sunday market and buy my vegetables for the week. It is true that there are purveyors of vegetables closer to where I live and I was only at the market for 20 minutes. But I like the Alphington Sunday market and public transport in Zone One is free at the weekends for people with Seniors' Myki cards.  I have a Seniors' Myki card. I was travelling in Zone One.

I can decide on Sunday afternoon that I want another air fryer and I can walk across the concourse with my trolley to the Spencer Street Outlet Centre and buy a new air fryer from Harris Scarfe and then trundle it back to my place.

I can take a couple of trams out to Richmond and return the chair covers I bought from Ikea which didn't fit. I can then buy a few bits and pieces that I had been looking out for and come back on the trams.

I have several standard and Asian supermarkets an easy walk from here. There are also Japanese and East Asian supermarkets a short tram ride away.

I do not, really, need a car for regular use.

I can finally use the "Too Good to Go" app on my phone and order a mystery box from a soup and skewer shop at the station. I don't know what's in it yet. I have to pick it up at 6:30. I've had the Too Good to Go app for some time but wasn't able to use it in Ballarat and had more or less forgotten about it until this morning. There are quite a few places around here that use it. I must keep an eye on it.

I can sit at my dining table on a very windy afternoon, drink tea and watch the view:

Disadvantages?  I haven't really found any yet, although the presence of so many shops within walking distance may not prove to be an undiluted advantage.

My veggie haul from the market was comparatively small this week:

This is what it looks like now: