Dover Bay
The Dover Bay area is about as far north as you can get in Nanaimo without being in Lantzville. Dover Bay Road heads east from the Woodgrove Mall area, staying high above the ocean and passing through upper-middle class and more upscale residential neighbourhoods.
There is every kind of retail opportunity at nearby Woodgrove Mall and the many open malls in the area, as well as a large plant nursery and a Home Depot, and a Cosco. Most Dover Bay properties are a five minute drive from the shopping centers.
Homes in the Dover Bay area tend to be more "cookie-cutter" than in the older Hammond Bay / Rutherford area to the southwest. However, many of the home designs are amazing, efficient homes with spectacular ocean views, and the neighbourhoods couldn't be safer.
Along bus routes? Yes.
Bad part of town? No.
Nearby parks: Pipers Lagoon, Neck Point, Eagle Point, Lantzville Foothills, Linley Valley, Long Lake, Rutherford Ridge
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