foofoo

Though you are entitled to your opinion- your comments about Flemington are sensationalistic to say the least! The 57 tram line can have an undesirable element on board, but that is no reflection of the suburb as a whole. There is a perfectly safe tram alternative along Mt Alexander road and the train station at Newmarket is well lit and has a bustling cafe trade down Pin Oak crs for added security. It sounds like you may have had a bad experience on the 57 tram line. Maybe you should use an alternate route so as to give you a better opinion of a great suburb.

I absolutely agree with G03. Any inner city suburb will always attract all walks of life - particularly on public transport where a road like Racecourse Rd leads to many outer suburbs. Just because there are undesirable people on that line, doesn't mean they all live in one particular suburb. And personally, I'd rather travel on a busy tram in the inner city than on some empty train carraige out to a remote suburb where no-one can hear you scream.
I have had no such experience with Flemington as described by foofoo. Flemington is a beautiful suburb - we love living here. I love wandering the beautiful streets, catching the train to work at Newmarket and grabbing a coffee at Made on the way. We walk the dog at Debney, let the kids play at Farnham St park - and we can be in the city in no time at all.
I do concede that there is another side of Flemington - the drunks and drug addicts (but isn't this the case with every inner-city suburb??) and the evident poverty around the high-rise flats - but there are also lovely families that live in those flats who have introduced us to different cultures and add a colourful landscape to an otherwise white middle-class demographic. Open your eyes, foofoo.

Offf, I love Flemington too, but like you saying Kevan: "I do concede that there is another side of Flemington - the drunks and drug addicts (but isn't this the case with every inner-city suburb??)” Let me answer you, NO IT IS NOT EVERY SUBURB. We’ve been lived in Carlton for more than 2 years and we never saw drug addict or drunken person on the streets, plus that our car was parked on the street 24/7 and no one broke in to or does something to our car. Now I live in Flemington, I am not saying it’s really bad area, just when you moving in to a new area, you don’t expect someone to break in to your car in the first 2 weeks, you don’t make house insurance just like that-but we did. About the public transport-I cannot say anything, just because I don’t use it!!

I've lived in both Carlton and flemington too and saw plenty of drunks and drug addicts there. Plus my car was stolen in Carlton and house broken into twice. I was pleasantly surprised moving to flemington that insurance for car and home is significantly cheaper. So far we have not experienced any crime here in flemington, and hopefully it stays that way, but inevitably we will as we would in any other place in Australia, particularly in the city.