Thanks a ton NicF and John Browning! I'll be using public transport at least until I'm pretty much cornered into buying a car, and that would depend on the location of the temp / full time job I land, whenever that happens. Both places are exactly equidistant from the CBD, but I'm most probably gonna go with the Fitzroy one. Just one more thing: I've been trying through flatmates and gumtree for a while, but the best deals I got were frankly at Airbnb. If I'm not mistaken Airbnb doesn't count towards rental history right? So in case I go through them will I have substantial problems while looking for a long term rental later on? Should I just stick to Flatmates? (Not a lot of responses for short term rental there, understandably.)