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Bazza wrote:

Southerner wrote: Every single major city or township has a massive homeless issue and truthfully it is a huge problem on the eastern seaboard from top end to bottom end particularly in Melbourne & Sydney

Fremantle Town had it's boom with The Americas Cup but copped some during the 1997 G F collapse and hasn't bounced back and this now won't help things

Spot on city centers and Retail are struggling and Midland is more cooked than most, I mean who actually goes out to Midland for a special trip, are tourists attracted there, do they have a World Heritage Site? do they get a sea breeze - Nope...

Lol Midland is cooked. You have no idea mate seriously. Midland any day of the week is choked with traffic, car parks are full. Saturday forget it, it's a nightmare. Fremantle as a retail precinct is a dinosaur, a relic of the past. Fremantle Woolstores , Fremantle mall , Old Myers site, what's it going to be? New Centrelink Call centre or just a new Centrelink?

I went to E Shed Markets recently. What a shell of a farking place. Used to be packed with retailers, food hall packed couldn't get a seat, now most of it is closed off only a few souvenir shops left and most of the food court is closed (out of business). Ostrich city down there, oh hang on we got the sea breeze!!

Some of you need to get over this east west BS or Midland v Freo crap. The western suburbs triangle? well that sits squarely with the CFC who own the Hale, Scotch, & Christchurch college football factories. Subi and I think EP share some hard case suburbs like Balga, Mirrabooka, Marangaroo and the like, not exactly 5 star. Swans have the Swan valley and the hills where there's plenty of well to do people so pull your collective heads in and consider the idea that we want the best people for the job no matter where they were born, where they were raised or where they live now.

Senior Seagull wrote: Some of you need to get over this east west BS or Midland v Freo crap. The western suburbs triangle? well that sits squarely with the CFC who own the Hale, Scotch, & Christchurch college football factories. Subi and I think EP share some hard case suburbs like Balga, Mirrabooka, Marangaroo and the like, not exactly 5 star. Swans have the Swan valley and the hills where there's plenty of well to do people so pull your collective heads in and consider the idea that we want the best people for the job no matter where they were born, where they were raised or where they live now.

That's exactly what I have been trying to say - get the best people, who cares where they come from. Maybe the fact that people connected with Claremont area seem to also end up in management is because if the success of those Football Factories you mention and have undertaken MBA's.

DD wrote:

Bazza wrote:

Southerner wrote: Every single major city or township has a massive homeless issue and truthfully it is a huge problem on the eastern seaboard from top end to bottom end particularly in Melbourne & Sydney

Fremantle Town had it's boom with The Americas Cup but copped some during the 1997 G F collapse and hasn't bounced back and this now won't help things

Spot on city centers and Retail are struggling and Midland is more cooked than most, I mean who actually goes out to Midland for a special trip, are tourists attracted there, do they have a World Heritage Site? do they get a sea breeze - Nope...

Lol Midland is cooked. You have no idea mate seriously. Midland any day of the week is choked with traffic, car parks are full. Saturday forget it, it's a nightmare. Fremantle as a retail precinct is a dinosaur, a relic of the past. Fremantle Woolstores , Fremantle mall , Old Myers site, what's it going to be? New Centrelink Call centre or just a new Centrelink?

I went to E Shed Markets recently. What a shell of a farking place. Used to be packed with retailers, food hall packed couldn't get a seat, now most of it is closed off only a few souvenir shops left and most of the food court is closed (out of business). Ostrich city down there, oh hang on we got the sea breeze!!

Median House Prices: Fremantle $775,000 - Midland $327,000.

Put down your glasses.

Bazza wrote:

DD wrote:

Bazza wrote:

Southerner wrote: Every single major city or township has a massive homeless issue and truthfully it is a huge problem on the eastern seaboard from top end to bottom end particularly in Melbourne & Sydney

Fremantle Town had it's boom with The Americas Cup but copped some during the 1997 G F collapse and hasn't bounced back and this now won't help things

Spot on city centers and Retail are struggling and Midland is more cooked than most, I mean who actually goes out to Midland for a special trip, are tourists attracted there, do they have a World Heritage Site? do they get a sea breeze - Nope...

Lol Midland is cooked. You have no idea mate seriously. Midland any day of the week is choked with traffic, car parks are full. Saturday forget it, it's a nightmare. Fremantle as a retail precinct is a dinosaur, a relic of the past. Fremantle Woolstores , Fremantle mall , Old Myers site, what's it going to be? New Centrelink Call centre or just a new Centrelink?

I went to E Shed Markets recently. What a shell of a farking place. Used to be packed with retailers, food hall packed couldn't get a seat, now most of it is closed off only a few souvenir shops left and most of the food court is closed (out of business). Ostrich city down there, oh hang on we got the sea breeze!!

Median House Prices: Fremantle $775,000 - Midland $327,000.

Put down your glasses.

Thank fk for that imagine how many more filthy hippies would be over running Fremantle if the median house price was the same as Midland. I’m sure the median house price in the Perth CBD tops Fremantle. Doesn’t solve the social and retail problems does it?

Eastern Oasis bar manager Andrew Bishop said not enough was being done to address substance abuse in the area and it was leading to other social problems.

He said he had seen people as young as 15 or 16 sniffing solvents from bottles near the hotel, at local shopping centres and at the nearby train station.

"This is a troubled suburb," Mr Bishop said.

Midland IGA supervisor Cristalyn Munro said she had seen children and adults alike sniffing from bottles or paper bags, some of whom would come into the store smelling of petrol or paint. She said she hoped more would be done to curb the problem.

Those who had lived or worked in Midland for many years all agreed the situation had improved over the past decade.

Midland Farmers Market manager Peter Marshall, who has run a fruit and vegetable shop at the market behind the Town Hall Clock every Sunday since 2000, said while he would still see people sniffing paint, petrol or glue on most days, he believed things had improved over the past few years.

"It doesn't make anyone's day, does it," Mr Marshall said.

"It's a bloody horrible thing - especially when you see the same people for 10 years.

"You occasionally see drinking, fighting and carrying on, but things have gotten better."

The manager of nearby Jim Kidd Sport, Andrew Cox, said young children had wandered into the sport shop before and not been found for an extended period of time because they were not being supervised.

He said he agreed with Naitanui that there was a problem in the area and something needed to be done.

"It's terrible," Mr Cox said.

Swan View resident Paula Pritchard, who works at a pub in central Midland, said she saw people sniffing solvents regularly at Midland train station and she would like to see something done about it.

"It doesn't affect me, but something probably needs to be done about it," she said.

Salvation Army spokesman Warren Palmer said they knew of some instances of paint sniffing in the area but were not aware of a significant number of people doing it.

Mr Palmer said paint sniffing was a form of substance addiction that was disturbing to watch and just as corrosive to long-term health as any other form of drug.

WTF has any of this above rubbish got to do with the WAFC and hopefully getting a representative from an Eastern Suburbs background on the Commission rather than the same ol from the same area who have almost destroyed the WAFL?

Bazza wrote: Eastern Oasis bar manager Andrew Bishop said not enough was being done to address substance abuse in the area and it was leading to other social problems.

He said he had seen people as young as 15 or 16 sniffing solvents from bottles near the hotel, at local shopping centres and at the nearby train station.

"This is a troubled suburb," Mr Bishop said.

Midland IGA supervisor Cristalyn Munro said she had seen children and adults alike sniffing from bottles or paper bags, some of whom would come into the store smelling of petrol or paint. She said she hoped more would be done to curb the problem.

Those who had lived or worked in Midland for many years all agreed the situation had improved over the past decade.

Midland Farmers Market manager Peter Marshall, who has run a fruit and vegetable shop at the market behind the Town Hall Clock every Sunday since 2000, said while he would still see people sniffing paint, petrol or glue on most days, he believed things had improved over the past few years.

"It doesn't make anyone's day, does it," Mr Marshall said.

"It's a bloody horrible thing - especially when you see the same people for 10 years.

"You occasionally see drinking, fighting and carrying on, but things have gotten better."

The manager of nearby Jim Kidd Sport, Andrew Cox, said young children had wandered into the sport shop before and not been found for an extended period of time because they were not being supervised.

He said he agreed with Naitanui that there was a problem in the area and something needed to be done.

"It's terrible," Mr Cox said.

Swan View resident Paula Pritchard, who works at a pub in central Midland, said she saw people sniffing solvents regularly at Midland train station and she would like to see something done about it.

"It doesn't affect me, but something probably needs to be done about it," she said.

Salvation Army spokesman Warren Palmer said they knew of some instances of paint sniffing in the area but were not aware of a significant number of people doing it.

Mr Palmer said paint sniffing was a form of substance addiction that was disturbing to watch and just as corrosive to long-term health as any other form of drug.

FMD you’ve gone off the rails. Obviously you are sensitive to anyone having anything negative to say about your beloved Fremantle.