Shiiea007
Reviews
"Worst place in Australia"
Firstly, I would just like to say to anyone who lives in Woodridge and read this, to not take it personally as I am only giving an honest review of this suburb from my own experience, you may disagree with my following comments all you want but they are based on real life experience of the area.
I get paid to travel all over Australia, it's what I do best and over the last 10 years, I've been able to visit many places throughout Australia, from the worst of the worst to the best of the best and I am sorry to say this but Woodridge has to be one of the worst I have ever lived in. Don't get me wrong, there are truly some lovely people in this area who I have had the pleasure of speaking to but that is as nice as it gets.
In the short time of 1.5 years that I have lived in this area, I have never witness so much crime and pain. I'll make a simple list for my reasons of a 1.5 year period.
1. Car broken into 4 times... INSIDE A GARAGE
2. 238 domestics anywhere from 3pm to 3am
3. Witnessed 23 public assaults on children
4. Husband attacked 12 times coming home from work by gangs (4 of those times in hospital)
5. Have had someone attempt to rob me during the day in a busy area while holding my new born.
6. Have been followed home by groups of men 3 times.
7. Consist drug dealings
8. Walking out in public with children who always witness people swearing out loud and disrespecting one another.
9. Someone tried to break into my home when I was alone with our children in the early hours of the morning, luckily our neighbour spotted him and scared him away.... but you never feel safe again.
10. murders have taken place close by
11. attempted kidnapping of my children
12. Children running around the street at all hours kicking over other peoples rubbish bins and generally just destroying whatever they get their hands on... day or night.
That is my list and many of you who live in this area and love it.. I'm happy for you but for me.... I cannot stand this area and I cannot wait to move out once my job is done. Oh and just for the record, I live on what is considered one of the 'nice' streets.
I would seriously urge anyone who cannot afford to live else where to do some serious research on this area and buy lots of locks.
Not great for
- Can be dangerous
- Creeks and some shopping areas are untidy.
- Poor quality tenants
- Awful dodgy, crime, weird people
- Highway traffic
Another problem with people from this area. Instead of simply allowing people to make their own judgements or state their own facts, they are brought up in such a manner where they do not accept anything to be true unless of course it agrees with them. These are the sort of people who you want to be seen around.
Further more, I do not need to flee as I now have my own police guard for the job rather filing many complaints with my company. We are more than safe now.
I too think that it is unbelievable that all of these things happened to one person in their lifetime let alone in a few years no matter where they live. Come on is this a joke
WOW, you must be the unluckiest person walking the planet. Perhaps you should try a new planet to live on. I simply don't believe that you have been subjected to so much and still alive.. What a load of crap.
Please don't attack Shiiea007. One can easily verify what she said about ...
Woodridge (4114) is a suburb of Brisbane, Southern Suburbs, Queensland. It is about 19 kms from QLD's capital city of Brisbane. Woodridge is in the federal electorate of Rankin.
In the 2011 Census the population of Woodridge is 12,787 and is comprised of 50.5% females and 49.5% males.
The median/average age of the Woodridge population is 30 years of age, 7 years below the Australian average.
54% of people living in Woodridge were born in Australia. The other top responses for country of birth were New Zealand 9.1%, England 2.6%, Samoa 2.1%, Burma 1.6%, India 1.5%.
62.8% of people speak English as their first language 4.3% Samoan, 1.7% Arabic, 1.2% Hindi, 1.1% Karen, 1.1% Tongan.
The religious make up of Woodridge is 18.9% No Religion, 17.7% Catholic, 12.2% Anglican, 6.6% Islam, 4.5% Uniting Church.
35.9% of people are married, 42.1% have never married and 11.3% are divorced and 5.5% are separated. There are 506 widowed people living in Woodridge.
54.5% of the people living in Woodridge are employed full time, 25.6% are working on a part time basis. Woodridge has an unemployment rate of 14%.
The main occupations of people from Woodridge are Labourers 22.3%, Machinery Operators And Drivers 15.3%, Technicians and Trades Workers 14.1%, Clerical and Administrative Workers 12.3%, Community and Personal Service Workers 11.1%, Professionals 8.8%, Sales Workers 8.1%, Managers 4.8%.
The median individual income is $411.00 per week and the median household income is $806.00 per week.
16.7% of homes are fully owned, and 22.9% are in the process of being purchased by home loan mortgage. 55.4% of homes are rented.
The median rent in Woodridge is $250 per week and the median mortgage repayment is $1300 per month.
It does pains me to see all the positive speakers of Woodridge here having to defend what can't be defended, police crime stats can't lie, or can it?
Now here is the interesting part from the QLD crime stats site. I will add two other neighbouring surburbs for comparative purpose. Crime related incident records based on 3 months period from 25/10/2014 to 25/10/2014 - Runcorn 4113(161), Woodridge 4114(329), Regents Park 4118(121).
Simple maths will then tell you if maybe police reported incidents are down 50%, then maybe the house prices in Woodridge would go up 100% to similiar comparative brackets of those in Runcorns and Regents Park?
Now we know crime rate and number of police reported incidents alone doesn't completely determine the house prices of an area. A look in Sunnybank 4109(316) would otherwise tell us it should be close cousin to Woodridge, but it doesn't, houses in Sunnybank are instead similar to those in Eigh Mile Plains. This we all know is due the the Chinese factor but, this is another story, another suburb for another day. We just want to talk about Woodridge here only, right?
Hey dumbasses, what she said is true. the morons spruiking about how amazing Woodridge are must be real-estate shills. Let me break it down for you.....in the period while I lived there as a uni student (broke and couldn't afford better). I witnessed multiple drug deals, had my father in laws house one street away from mine broken into 3 times, once where they threatened to assault my mother in law. My partner and I had several unsuccessful attempted break ins until our very nice drug dealing neighbours put a stop to it as it was bad for business every time I called the cops. Another lovely story was of the young mum pushing her child in a stroller down the street, when a guy with a sawn off shotgun came up and shot her. What a lovely area to take one of those strolls mentioned in the first place. I also happen to now be privy to information on the true crime statistics and parolee's that frequent and live in the area. There are many many many violent offenders on orders within the community. Likewise there are several well known child molesters and my favourite would be the most recent double homicide where a young couple were unspeakable tortured and tied up in boxes then thrown into the water by a group of drug dealing locals who decided they had it coming. this was only in March 2016. so please feel free to move there, but have good security and bloody big dogs.
Yes, all the customers that come to our Underwood store to steal are from Woodridge, they tell us so.. like making conversation will distract us from what you are doing. They corrupt their children and steal in families, the parents distracting while the poor children steal. It's so sad. Sounds crazy but it's sadly true. 3/4 of them are if their face on drugs. I really feel bad for them.
It sounds like this family collectively are a crime magnet or this is a work of total fiction.
witness to 23 child assaults , husband attacked /bashed 12 times , own children attempted abductions , i should think which such an extensive portfolio of crime involvement the writer or family would have to be looking forward to spending the next five years full time in court as prosecution witnesses.
most certainly i would not be waiting for your job to be done , if things are as bad as you have described , there is know way on this earth i would be sitting waiting patiently to leave ., as you have said Travel is what you do best so why not take your expertise and flee for the sake and safety of your family.
doesnt make a great deal of sense really.