Footscray

[blobby1000]

I thought I had seen it all in my time in Australia but today I had a training day in Footscray!!

What is this suburb all about? Anyone live there? Whats your experience?

Grafitti everywhere, drunks with brown plastic bags at 8am on the street, down and outs with tattooed faces, police all around, security camaras, litter all over the streets and everyone looks like their on heroin!!!

[calNgary]

Never heard of it and going off that description i dont think i ever want too,lol

Cal x

[blobby1000]

Oh you must take a day trip there.....! Its an amazing experience. The funny thing is that its about 15 mins to the city so house prices are very high there!

[calNgary]

LOL, Go on then, you sold it to me !! lol

Cal x

[KazzE]

Ha ha ha

When we first arrived 4 yrs ago an Aussie friend took us there for Vietnamise food, the Food was great but I kept calling it Footscary!

As with a lot of suburbs there are some nice streets and I believe they have been spending a lot of money trying to tart it up but it is not somewhere I go nor would I live there.

I am sure it was a shock if you are used to Torquay!!

[Petals]

The city is the city, Footscray is an area of difference, there are those with nothing and those with a lot. Its a popular place to live for a lot of the professionals who want to live close to the CBD. The thing is if you want to live in the city, have to take what goes with it, unfortunately we do have people with addiction, unemployment, disability who have been tipped onto the streets by progressive governments who have failed to see that these people need a lot of help and funds.

In most of the transport hub areas of Melbourne you will find the same thing.

Instead of bemoaning the suburb have a bit of sympathy and be pleased you are where you are in life.

We have a lot of graffiti where I live, what does that tell you, kids have money to buy paint and are bored out of their brain, not always kids, just displaced youth.

[blobby1000]

I'm not here to sympathise with people that sit around all day getting p!ssed while I go to work.

Im a mental health nurse, I understand addiction (I hope), I understand illness, and I also have the right to wonder why it would cost $700,000 to buy a house in Footscray.. Petals why do you have to defend every "attack" on Australia? I'm only saying Footscray is horrible....Im not here to change the world, Im not here to improve Footscray. I came here for a better life and I would not be finding that in Footscray!!!

[blobby1000]

Ha ha ha

When we first arrived 4 yrs ago an Aussie friend took us there for Vietnamise food, the Food was great but I kept calling it Footscary!

As with a lot of suburbs there are some nice streets and I believe they have been spending a lot of money trying to tart it up but it is not somewhere I go nor would I live there.

I am sure it was a shock if you are used to Torquay!!

Ha! Yeah.

However we saw the crap side of life living in the Northern suburbs last year and I see it every day working in Epping.

[leanda]

Every single suburb has bad and good bits! Personally not a fan of footscray and as my husband is a pest controller you can imagine what he thinks!! Buts it's close to the city and for some that is everything

[Ratchet]

I'm not here to sympathise with people that sit around all day getting p!ssed while I go to work.

Im a mental health nurse, I understand addiction (I hope), I understand illness, and I also have the right to wonder why it would cost $700,000 to buy a house in Footscray.. Petals why do you have to defend every "attack" on Australia? I'm only saying Footscray is horrible....Im not here to change the world, Im not here to improve Footscray. I came here for a better life and I would not be finding that in Footscray!!!

Hahahaha do you realise how pompus you sound?

well im offended to be in the same profession. You clearly dont understand addiction or mental illness. If anyone of my staff held those kind of opinion, id be sending them back to school to find a different career.

As a mental health nurse you surely would know addiction and mental health go hand in hand. You must also be aware that both can be found in every street in every suburb. Its actually quite hard to maintain an addiction in australia. The price of drugs are huge here. So most of those people you saw out and about were probably grafting to find money to pay for their habit. Its also those people that are keeping you in a job.

Theres one thing that i have found by being here in Australia, Dont judge a book by its cover. Footscray is just like any other city suburb. Its actually quite a quirky place if you give it time.