johnd70

As I had been saying on my East Toowoomba review, the crime on and surrounding this street is just out of hand now. There are kids standing on corners near the Fairholme Girls School all night just yelling, blasting music, drinking, smoking, smashing bottles and sometimes even fighting. It is also quite the coincidence that wherever these groups of kids pop at, the tagging and burglaries increase dramatically in that area. All the electricity poles and housing fences are tagged up too. There are so many crazy drivers in the area that I heard the government were thinking of putting a set of lights on the intersection of Wirra Wirra St and Bridge St. It's not a nice place at all.

East Toowoomba has been seen as a suburb of rich houses and no crime, but after living here for 10+ years I can so no, that is completely false. I have had many friends in the area who have been broken into and 2 other friends who had been mugged on separate occasions. The graffiti here is everywhere now. I would say about 25% of the electricity poles in the area are tagged up and so are fences, schools, toilets and even cars and houses. There are kids standing on corners near the Fairholme Girls School all night just yelling, blasting music, drinking, smoking, smashing bottles and sometimes even fighting. It is also quite the coincidence that wherever these groups of kids pop at, the tagging and burglaries increase dramatically in that area.