buggerboo

Lived here for several years and finally got out recently. As a mixed industrial area undergoing a construction boom it's always been noisy, but has gotten worse in recent years. Lots of truck noise all times of day & night, trailbikers on the bike paths and hooning down tight suburban streets at night, burnouts at nearby Market Dr and once in front of my house, some residents playing loud music til late, the constant rumble of bogan cars going back and forth and beeping at each other (and one guy who likes to rev his engine loudly several times after 11pm), and it's surrounded by warehouses doing late-night deliveries - one just over the Dandenong Creek Trail at the bottom of White Ave / Hamilton Rd that goes all night intermittently, and a warehouse on Canterbury Rd where you can hear trucks reversing and dumping heavy loads with a loud metallic crash from 3:30-5am nightly (pray you're a heavy sleeper).
On top of that, there's plenty of graffiti, garbage dumping in nature areas (council did nothing the one time I reported it), police regularly cruising down Glen Park Rd and police helicopter circling overhead, have seen cops responding to domestic disputes and forming roadblocks waiting for someone in particular, and police arresting drivers right in front of my house, people don't walk their dogs on leads and don't pick up after them, and there are a few paranoid druggos around (one guy once spraypainted on his own garage door, "I know who are, stay out"). Oh also someone once removed all the drain covers on the footpaths (a vandal - there weren't cordoned off for works or anything), so someone could've fallen in and badly hurt themselves. Hooray for Bayswater North!

On the plus side, most people say g'day when you pass them, and you can walk all the way to Mt Dandenong along the creek trail, though it's not that tranquil with warehouses bordering it most of the way. Still has some decent-sized blocks, though most are being turned into units, and wide roads, but with all the units there are usually cars parked on both sides of the road making them mostly single-lane like the rest of suburban Melbourne. Also I think the portion of the suburb north of Canterbury Rd might be better than the southern part, though you'd still have the late night Canterbury Rd warehouse noise.