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, i really like the area - the main st mary strip is quite nice and the people seem like normal hard working australians. Very close to Penrith and only 45 mins to cbd when not rush hour.
has anyone had experience with Property Secrets - buyers agents who specialise in the mount druitt area?
From my experience Mt Druiit and surrounding suburbs (Blackett, Whalan, Tregear etc) is a low socio economic, low income area with a fair amount of housing commission housing and social problems, high unemployment etc.
All this, of course, is compared to Sydney as a whole. Ive never held property out there, but I've been told not a bad area to invest in. make sure you have a good PM, hopefully with a Uzi! (joking)
From my experience Mt Druiit and surrounding suburbs (Blackett, Whalan, Tregear etc) is a low socio economic, low income area with a fair amount of housing commission housing and social problems, high unemployment etc.
All this, of course, is compared to Sydney as a whole. Ive never held property out there, but I've been told not a bad area to invest in. make sure you have a good PM, hopefully with a Uzi! (joking)
Railglider, so nice to have someone else from around this area. I do disagree with you on one point though. You said "The stigma that has stuck with Mt Druitt will never go away, it's been like this for 35 yrs". I believe that slowly this, like many things will change. It won't change in a hurry, it will take time, but slowly as more homes are sold to owners there will be a bit of a change.
Hi skater,
You have me wondering also why you would think that St Clair is a step up the ladder (so to speak) Crime rates in that area would not be any less than the Druitt region, still have young kids walking the streets at night and congregating at the shopping centre, (so the local newspaper will tell us)
St Clair at the time of development was low budget affordable housing. Even though the homes are a little more modern - it was still built on land fill. Interestingly enough - I've worked on many, many, homes over the Gt Western Hwy, and I've seen the results of poor slap-em up brickwork on far too many of them. My uncle is a builder living in Colyton, I was his Sparkie for some 15 years on the early development of St Clair, Erskine Pk, Claremont Meadows, and we have seen and worked on literally hundreds of these low budget homes in these housing estates, I won't name the project home builders on this forum, but if we took too much time to adding to detail, to try and do the right thing - we were often not the first call on the next home we built. Postcodes do not give people better homes or attitudes.
There are kids around the shopping centre, it's true, however that will happen when you build the high school next door to the shopping centre. At night and on weekends there are not many kids to be seen in this area. The quality of the shoppers in the shopping centre is quite high as compared to my previous local shopping centre, which was Emerton. Living in the area, you will notice that many of the shoppers that go to Emerton are of the one nationality (the one that has a large specialty grocery store for their tastes), many of whom go shopping with bare feet. I have heard many parents in Emerton yelling abuse at their kids. I don't see this in St Clair.
What I'm trying to get at, is you have good and bad people in any area. It sure does urk me though when people snub the good people of Mt Druitt because of it's low socio economic, and migrant population. I still maintain postcodes do not make a better class of people.
That's fine Railglider. If you weren't such a newbie on this site, you would know that I am constantly saying the same thing. I have met some wonderful people around this area, the same as I have met some that are not so nice in more salubrious areas.
It's good to see another local here.
still have young kids walking the streets at night and congregating at the shopping centre, (so the local newspaper will tell us)
I reckon that happens in any suburb. After moving to Sydney from New Zealand 25 years ago I lived at Artarmon on the lower North Shore for a while and now live in the Sutherland Shire (Miranda) ..Let me tell you kids hanging at shops / stations at Cronulla and Chatswood would be just as bad if not worse than those in the outer west.