03-13-2016, 02:47 AM
(This post was last modified: 03-13-2016, 02:54 AM by ElwoodBlues1.)
(03-13-2016, 02:09 AM)cookie2 link Wrote:@EB1
West Heidelberg was literally the wild west show when I first arrived in Melbourne in the 1970s. I know as I lived very close in the early days and we used to sometimes go there to shop - until we learned better! A very different place these days and agree, likely to keep improving due to its location not too far from the city.
Cookie, Yep funny place is Heidelberg....you have the extreme wealthy extending to Eaglemont, Ivanhoe and then you have the West end where probably the Olympic Village area is the poorest with
a high crime and violence rate. There was a little shopping centre near the village that always had the shops bordered up with tin sheets and looked like a scene from Northern Ireland at its worst.
We sometimes shop at Warringal as we have some friends who live in the area and you get to see the blend of people from all areas and its a real contrast..
Give it a few years and the west part will be a nice place to live IMO and I hope they look after the 2000 or so residents who live in public housing, we did it tough when I was a kid and
I dont like seeing the less fortunate forgotten about or just discarded into another poor housing estate somewhere else...