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Brunswick/Brunswick East is great. I loved living in the area. I got gentrified out, though. You can absolutely live there without a car. The trams down Nicholson and Lygon are so frequent that I never bothered with timetables.
Almost everything is $500+ per week now though, which is crazy.
I lived in Brunswick East from 1982 to 2019. Loved it. Just near the Lomond/3RRR. Then moved to Thornbury which is different but still suits me.
I live in Brunswick and highly recommend. There's some nice apartments below $500pw but that's becoming rarer. My place (2bed) is still below that threshold, even though they raised the rent by $10pw.
But it is definitely one of those suburbs that doesn't require a car; I walk for groceries and the GP, and everything else can be accessed via tram or train. I've lived all across Melbourne and this is, by far, my favourite abode.