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Lived there for 7 years, worst place I've lived in. At night its common to hear sirens, on my street there were three drug busts, a lot of junkies live there and you do not feel safe 'just going for a walk'. They've extended Deer Park apparently the newer part is okay, seems nice. But cross those rail lines towards the old Deer Park and it just feels horrible. Hoons everywhere.

I moved to Werribee in 2006 in one of the newer estates. When I told people that I'm moving to Werribee a lot of people were saying things like "Oh my God, it's so dangerous there!", "It's whoop whoop from everywhere", "It's a farm!" etc... All of those were proven WRONG! I actually like Werribee, I've moved a lot throughout my life including various suburbs within Melbourne and even New South Wales and Queensland, I think Werribee is better than most of the places I've lived in. Especially with the location! Located halfway between Melbourne and Geelong you have the advantage when it comes to choice and variety. 30 minutes is all it takes and bang your in the middle of something big. Being classed as on the outskirts is also good, because you have the suburban lifestyle, yet its easy to get away from all the hustle and bustle and just go see what rural Victoria has to offer. Public transport was improved in 2009, by adding extra trains to the Werribee line which has trains every ten or so minutes on weekdays while other lines apart from Sandringham don't have that advantage and have trains every twenty minutes to half an hour. Werribee is pretty big there are plenty of primary schools around and three main high schools. Shopping is easy, you have Werribee plaza, Watton Street (also known as main street with the locals) and a few extra smaller shopping centres within the newer estates such as Tarneit and Wyndham Vale. Cafe's are not so great, the majority being on Watton Street, shut too early, have nothing really going on to make it stand out and grab the attention of people, they'd more likely end up on Lygon street in Carlton/Brunswick. Nightlife is a bit meh, you have Mynt Lounge on Watton street which is pretty good for a cheap night out and close to home and there is also Volt which is right at the plaza behind the tabaret. There are two main libraries, and plenty of parks and nature strips especially surrounding the Werribee river, and the open range zoo is towards Werribee south.. Furthermore, traffic isn't much of an issue, the freeway is great and the backroads will lead you to other western suburbs such as Melton, Deer Park, Laverton, Sunshine... etc... in no time :)