Best and worst areas of Melbourne

Johnson#26 · Joined: 18 Dec 2003

What, to your mind, are the best and worst areas of Melbourne?

I hear Kananook (North Frankston) ain't too great.

magpiesgirl · Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 9:32 pm

Kananook/"The Pines" is getting better as alot of young just married couples are buying houses there and doing them up cause it's a cheap market.

Joel · Joined: 23 Mar 1999 Location: Mornington Peninsula

I'm from the Peninsula, though currently live in Melbourne.

Kananook is a hole. I wouldn't move there if you paid me. I walked from Kananook station to Frankston last year and it's not the nicest place.

Bucks5 · Nicky D - Parting the red sea Joined: 23 Mar 2002

It's really a matter of what you like.

I like the Beach so I say the best areas are the Brighton, Hampton, Sandringham. I chose to buy in Eltham because I like the rustic feel of the place, the leafyness and the wildlife (and the Bayside suburbs are totally unaffordable).

The worst, are probably the less affluent suburbs like St Albans, Footscray, Broadmeadows, Frankston etc.

Joel · Joined: 23 Mar 1999 Location: Mornington Peninsula

There is a thread on Whirlpool (another messageboard) along these lines:

http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=764499

magpiesgirl · Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 10:35 pm

Brighton has a very snobby,aristocratic vibe to it.It's like if you don't have a gold american express card,you don't belong.Walking down Church St is like walking around the Toorak end of Chadstone,it's just stinks of money.

Dave The Man · Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 11:42 pm

Dandenong is Bloody Rough.

Somerville is the Best Place in Victoria!

David · I dare you to try Joined: 27 Jul 2003 Location: Andromeda

Berwick (where my Grandma currently lives) is a pretty nice little place, only drawback is it's ages from the city.

Where she used to live, Clayton, had a nice suburban feel to it but was kind of rough in hindsight.

Joel · Joined: 23 Mar 1999 Location: Mornington Peninsula

I wouldn't live in St Albans:

Eight stabbed at teen party

http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/eight-stabbed-at-teen-party/2007/07/07/1183351495569.html

July 7, 2007 - 10:14AM

fan4collingwood · Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2007 4:12 pm

Proud Pies · Joined: 22 Feb 2003 Location: Knox-ish

i was born in the Adelaide Hills, nothing wrong with SA.

punkologist · Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2007 5:19 pm

Gee Frankston always gets a bad wrap. It's not entirely fair though. I grew up in Tyabb on the Mornington Peninsula so spent a fair bit of time in Frankston.

Frankston is a big area, there are bad areas, like Kananook, the pines, karingal etc, but there are also very nice (and expensive!) areas, mainly in the south of Frankston and Olivers hill area, the next suburb to the south is Mt Eliza and that is basically the Toorak of the Peninsula.

There are quite a lot of nice decent and freindly people living in Frankston, they are not all just bogans as people like Sam Newman would have you believe. Most of them even have a full mouth of teeth!

The used to be a bit of a gang and drug problem, mainly around the station and surrounding areas, but that is all but gone now. It seems to have moved onto to Dandenong (now there's a hole if there ever was one).

punkologist · Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2007 5:26 pm

Smith street Fitzroy is not too crash hot at night time.

I went to a birthday drinks at the Panama Dining room on Smith street on Friday night, and I was quite concerned for my safety for a while. The street was full of deros (some underage and one girl was pregnant) drinking, smoking and shooting up on the street and swearing and arguing with each other, myself and my wife felt a bit uncomfortable. I was glad when we got inside. When we came out, a police car was there and there was barely anyone in sight.

eddiesmith · Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2007 5:49 pm

Dave The Man · Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2007 6:24 pm