joes28

I lived in Newtown throughout 2024. Having gone through the reviews on this website (With no dates) it seems as though alot of them are from 10/15 years ago when the area was alot dodgier.

As of late 2024, most of the troublemakers and dole bludgers have been priced out and pushed out of the inner west and into western sydney (Starting at Earlwood/Ashfield nowadays). However, due to the excellent public service links to Newtown some of these people from west sydney (obvious by tattoos on their face and no teeth from hard narcotics) will still be seen loitering around on hot days and weekends.

On weekday mornings it feels just like a Nice but not exactly fancy inner city suburb where nice looking hipster and young professional people are walking around with suits and high quality clothes, on their way to work or enjoying some kind of day off (Not because they are dole bludgers but because they work from home or have their own business type of people)

The suburb looks much more grungier/dodgy on the surface than what it really is. There are many cafes and restaurants that look like some kind of crack house on the outside but when you go inside its all modern and renovated.

To speak on negatives, there are alot of housing commissions in the area but after a year of living in newtown (Moved recently) I have never had any trouble as male who dresses in plain unpretentious clothes other than hearing noises and smelling strange stuff walking past.

Another negative is that the streets are like overgrown dirty hippy jungles. Because of the overall greeny vibe, people seem to think that maintaining their garden and disposing of waste is evil. Alot of houses have overgrown forestry, and have trees/greenery growing through the cracks of their walls, causing insects and allergies to run rampant, and my car basically got ruined by the amount of leaves and tree grime that would go onto it. The residents rallied up to have the red bins emptied only every fortnight with a new green "Fogo" bin making up the every second week. This bin is for organics such as banana peels, apple scraps ETC. The main extreme drawback, however, is when you dump a heap of these organics in a bin and leave them to rot for two weeks, they become maggot and fly infested dumps. These bins (and also the red ones) End up stinking like a combination of death, maggots, rotten fish, rotten meat, baby diapers, and hippy body odour. worst of all since they only get emptied fortnightly, the bins fill up and get placed on the curbs ages before the bin trucks come. I've had times where I literally cannot walk on the footpaths because they get blocked by thousands of full, dirty, maggot infested death smelling bins.

Overall it is a cool place to live for a creative/open minded young professional or student with great access to everything. People aren't all socialist anti work dole bludgers anymore, however, you do notice that people typically are hippies and will hold extreme views, albeit I found specifically on climate related stuff while being a bit more centered (but not typically conservative) on social and economic topics. If the waste and forestry was managed better it would be quite significantly nicer to live in Newtown; although this negative was outweighed by the positives for me. Overall I enjoyed living there, and had alot of fun as a young creative tech professional in my early 20s.