[quote name='ww-chat.com' post='17635' date='Jun 29 2009, 10:47 PM']In all honesty i would steer clear of werribee and hoppers crossing it is a rough area and you would not want to be there at night times. There has been alot of robberies on the trains there.
You should check out a blog on blogspot called 'weribeewatch' which lists some of the crime there.
The blog seems to be offline at the moment but you can find a cached version here:
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Too late, we've moved behind the Werribee Plaza in Hoppers Crossing.
That blog still seems to be offline btw and the cached version doesn't work, but thanks anyway.
On top of some people saying they are rough areas we have also had comments that it's a nice place to live.
We are living in a rental that despite being a bit run down and uncared for by its landlord is still a nice house. It's quiet around here and even at night we have walked through the suburbs and to the mall for evenings out and we have not received any hassle or witnessed any trouble. There aren't that many bodies about at night and there is security that patrols the mall. The people we have interacted with all seem fairly friendly too.
Bare in mind though that we have moved here from Blackpool in the UK, where there are yobs on street corners all over the place, getting drunk, littering, vandalising, mouthing off to innocent passers by and starting fights. Such is the declining state of Great Britain on a large scale these days I believe. Laws foolishly allow for that over there, where as here loitering and drinking on street corners is illegal and the police will normally do something about it.
To be honest what we have heard about robberies on the trains is not just specific to Werribee and Hoppers Crossing but it is a noted problem across the Melbourne rail in general. However we have used the trains a lot when we first arrived to get in and out of Melbourne both during the day and the evening and again we have not yet witnessed any robberies or trouble at all apart from maybe the odd idiot teenager here and there that thinks its highly intelligible to incessantly spit on the ground whilst waiting for a train, then stand and smoke on the outside of a moving carriage. Whether they are safe or not, it does appear that a lot of people in Werribee and Hoppers still happily commute to and from work via the trains.
Which brings me to my only gripe with this area at the moment. It seems difficult getting work on this side of Melbourne. We've been applying for lots of jobs but not having any luck getting any so far. I have no idea why this is but if this continues for too long we may have to consider moving closer to Melbourne's centre where there appears to be a lot more jobs to apply for.
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