Merc

I have lived in Cranbourne West from 2003 and since then have seen good and bad over the years. I have found that more and more of the nice friendly 1st home buyers (owner occupiers) in this area have moved on and more investors have come into the area. This seems to have attracted a different demographic. Meaning more very low income people or unemployed with no prospects of home ownership and as such seem to take no community pride in the street scape from which they live. In some areas (not all), ample street parking has been provided yet people choose to park their cars, trucks, boats, caravans, trailers out on the nature strips or front muddy lawns, providing the point of least resistance to their front doors!! . The proliferation of vehicles onto council land is unreal. Add to this no pride in their dwellings such as overgrown gardens, high grasses, muddy nature strips due to vehicle parking and household hard waste left on nature strips for weeks on end. The parties and loud noise by some in the Central Parkway area is typical, just no common respect for others.. If people could show some pride and respect for their homes,themselves and their neighbours it would be a great place to live. So geographically it is a good place to live, demographically not so good.. But we can always hope.......