Sam and Myra Borg moved to a six-hectare plot at Diggers Rest 28 years ago when Sam built the family home. The couple raised two children there.

Last week, Mrs Borg was one of hundreds of landowners in the Melbourne's outer-west and outer-north who received a letter with the news that their properties were in the path of the proposed Outer Metropolitan Ring Road.

According to VicRoads maps, the Borgs' entire property will make way for the road.

"It's no bloody good at all," Mrs Borg said. "I like my house. We're in the middle of renovating and we've just finished the pergola. Now, everything has to go."

Mrs Borg said she could not bear the thought of moving.

The 70-kilometre outer ring road will run from just south of Werribee in an arc around the western suburbs to Beveridge, north of Craigieburn.

Details of the proposed road were released recently and while the State Government says it is not needed for at least 20 years, it will begin reserving land - including compulsory acquisitions - in the near future.

"We don't know where to go. It's like living in a communist country," Mrs Borg said. Grant Reynolds