[2kidsonecat]

Hi There, I'm not suprised about the train station, a woman was stabbed there a few months ago by her husband, she lived but her husband also stabbed himself and died, some kind of domestic.
There was a front page article on the Melton Leader about a Court in Taylors Hill that backed onto Hume Drive that had problems with houses being raided, vandalism etc. It had a cut through at the end of the Court and vandals were making their getaway through it.
Generally, Sydenham is not considered to be a bad area, maybe try what I do and google the street name of a house you like and see if anything bad comes up such as newspaper articles and the like.

All the best