I dunno... in the late 90's... okay mid 90's I lived in Glebe in a not so nice section of town in Sydney. I'd live in the same situation again in a second. I loved the area, quirks and all, drunks and all, crime & all... loved every inch of the place.

Here, we live in a very odd suburb. It used to be an "older" working class suburb but in the past 5 years its changing, so you have a dodge house with "ferals" in it) and new houses where they've torn down the post war houses worth over 600,000... There are a few like us around, people who bought post war houses & stayed in them trying to do them up over time as well, so younger families without heaps of $$ but mid socio-economic back ground.

So its very odd here... I love it. I love the old men characters which toddle around smells and all. I love the young kids walking to school and I love the old ladies talking over fences. I only dislike the domestic disputes at the train station... but other than that I love it.