I am not too paranoid, just naming areas/places where accidents and thefts have occured and are proven. There are many areas I do park my car... I live in an inner eastern suburb called North Balwyn, been here for over 20 years.. never once has my car been touched, vandald, etc to myself or anyone in my street or anyone I know in the area!!!
thats the difference between where I am, and all these other areas. I suppose thats why the average house price is also 700-800K+....
I park my cars everywhere i feel it is safe, generally, extremely close to where i am or going, secure parking, anywhere where there is extreme light, etc but that list is also at the top of insurance company lists of dangerous areas in melb... compare that to suburbs like:
Canterbury
Camberwell
Hawthorn
Balwyn (& North)
Greythorn
Templestowe
Toorak
Kooyong
Armadale
Malvern
etc etc etc
also upper class areas, who barely ever have anything in there local Neighbourhood watch pamphlet. Quiet suburban, leafy streets, heavily patroled, with no young crowd due to the high prices of houses.. I mean with a few blocks radius of where my hosue we have the likes of:
National Aust Bank CEO
Kylie Manogue + family residences
Burt Newton
Portia De Rossi
Barry Humphries (Dame edna)
Geofrey Rush (resides bewtween here and U.S)
Cate Blanchet (resides in US mostly)
and the list goes on...
My g.f lives in an outer eastern area, average price is 250K in the city of Knox, and i am not lyign when i say, here car has been broken into 4 times within 6 months in her own driveway, her brothers car stolen and burned at a park, etc
the difference being.. u drive around her streets any hour of the night, and there is strange people and large youths walking around looking for trouble or free fkn handouts..
u come to the City of Boorandara (Camberwell, Balwyn etc)
and its a dry zone in most of it, means... NO ALCOHOL..
the streets are a ghost town by 11pm. simple as that.
so that list compiled is where drug users and abusers congregate, clubs, bars and bigne drinking, high crime from low or no income earners.. etc
just my 2 cents..