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Located in suburban Melbourne, Erinsborough, a diverse district, was founded on the Erinsfield River (Erinsfield being the original name of the area), where nowadays, leafy residential bliss and Australia's corporate elite mingle seamlessly. At the heart of the suburb is Ramsay Street, built on the site of the Ramsay Orchards, once owned by the notorious "Black" Jack Ramsay, from whom the street name derives. Both the Ramsay and Robinson families have an ancestral presence in the street, marked with many feuds over the years. But Erinsborough is just one of several suburbs that have been frequented by the people of Ramsay Street.

One of the wealthier suburbs in the area is Eden Hills, home to a girls' school, Eden Hills Grammar, and Eden Hills University (where local radio station UniFM is based), providing the education needs for many of the district's school leavers and older residents. The Lim and Bishop families were both having houses built in this affluent area when they first arrived, while mansions belonging to Chloe Lambert and Dame Margaret Woolstead are also located here. The Carole Harvey Memorial Nursing Home, where Tom Kennedy is a resident, is also situated here.

Also nearby are Waratah, West Waratah and Waratah Park. Warratah was the scene of a council battle over property development, which proposed draining the Warratah Creek, a fragile ecosystem which housed many rare species, while West Waratah has housed two schools, West Waratah Tech and West Waratah High, both of which were merged with Erinsborough High, in 1994 and 2005 respectively. West Waratah also has its own newspaper, the West Waratah Star, a rival to the Erinsborough News, a caravan park where Lou Carpenter and the Timmins family have lived, and the suburb was the home of the rowdy Rebecchi clan before they moved to Ramsay Street in 1995.

Local district Warrinor is possibly the least affluent, housing a men's prison, amongst other things, while the often-mentioned Anson's Corner was briefly the home of the Parker family in 2007, Sindi and Penny Watts' mother lived there, and in 1993, the Gottlieb family moved there to open their own record store. Anson's Corner is also where Libby and Susan regularly visit their favourite patisserie, is home to Anson's Corner Motors, and a children's playground where Mary Casey lured Pepper Steiger in 2007.

Other nearby suburbs include Goodwood, where the local women's prison is located, Elliot Park, where, amongst other things, Charlene Robinson worked at Grainger's Garage, Eden Vale West, where young Anne Baxter claimed to live, and West Caro, home to Rebecca and Declan Napier before their move to Ramsay Street.

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