Places of Fancy

Scott (Jason Donovan) and Charlene (Kylie Minogue) reunite in a 2022 'Neighbours' episode You should be so lucky, lucky, lucky, lucky that it’s easy to pinpoint where the real-life Ramsay Street on the long-running soap opera “Neighbours” is. It’s in Australia, the Lucky Country, of course, but where, mate? Ramsay Street is supposed to be in a Melburnian suburb called Erinsborough, but that's pure fiction.  The filming location is a real cul-de-sac called Pin Oak Court in Vermont South, around 24 kilometers from central Melbourne. "Neighbours" fans have turned the beloved dead-end street into a bona fide pilgrimage site. But the inspo for Ramsay Street is actually in faraway Brisbane, hometown of series creator Reg Watson.  Watson, who went on to live in the UK, realized how life in the Queensland city was so different to that in London or even Birmingham.  "Over there, and also in Sydney, it was possible to live in the same street for years and never meet yo...