Rooms for rent in Carlton North

Carlton North is Carlton with the volume turned down. Rathdowne Village is the heart — a strip of cafés, a bookshop and wine bars that feel more neighbourhood than destination — and Princes Park is the backyard, looping with runners every morning. The terraces are wider and leafier than their southern neighbours, which means bigger share houses: four- and five-bedroom Victorians with proper backyards. It attracts people a few years past their undergrad — nurses from the Royal Melbourne, postgrads, young professionals who still want housemates. Curtain Square hosts half the suburb's dogs by 5pm.