Kensington is one of the best places to live in Melbourne. With a great community and village feel, there is a collection of great cafes and bars that come without the attitude found in other inner city suburbs. Once a working class suburb that was all but ignored, Kensington has well and truly become one of the “in” suburbs. And, it is only 3 train stops from the city centre. Kensington has plenty of professionals, young families, and people with a social conscience. There are still some old time working class folk, people on welfare, and migrants who live in public housing flats. The artsy set have organised an Annual Short Film Festival. There is an Annual Run for local residents and an Annual Women in Kensington Dinner. The suburb has tree-lined streets and plenty of renovated Victorian cottages. A large number of new townhouses have been built, in what were once Victoria’s largest cattle saleyards. That development is called Kensington Banks.