Although this blogspot is now named 'whyilovemountdruitt', it's suppose to pose a question to each individual community member within Mount Druitt and Surrounding Suburbs, why they love about Mount Druitt.
There is a negative stigma, connotation when people talk about Mount Druitt, sometimes. They think that because we are within a low to medium socio-economic area in Sydney based on one of the highest unemployment rates over a number of years, high crime rates and the perception of the younger generation and their ambitions.
The Mount Druitt area is changing slowly with the modern times. There has been, is and will be great people living within Mount Druitt. People are being educated are educated and there is a high amount of community working towards a great quality of life.
I want relevant local authorities, businesses, people to make that improvement that is required to work.
If the area is not improved and left behind in a bad state or in a mess, then Mount Druitt will be left behind. It has to start from our local council which is not based in Mount Druitt based in Blacktown.
I want people to love the place they live in not mock it, leaving a positive understanding of the area we live in. People are proud but most people hide their pride. No area is deprived of such goodness and greatness.
I recommend to e-mail photo's, whether it is a small or large improvement and I will get Council other stakeholders to work with us to get things done in the right way.
This is a chance for you to have a say, do not be shy!
People are encouraged to make the initial requests telling the community what they need to improve and the area to what standard they would love Mount Druitt to be.
When I read and say 'why I love Mount Druitt', it is not just me saying this, it is all people from Mount Druitt and surrounding suburbs saying this. Neither you or I can change the people of Mount Druitt, yet we can change the physical image of Mount Druitt, which only then may change the outlook of people's thoughts of Mount Druitt.
Furthermore, this website is not designed to dishonor anyone or even government body, or business, yet any comments made is for the further progress and improvements of the Mount Druitt area.
You can send your requests by e-mail to:
nsjpas@gmail.com
I also encourage comments from every one on all blogs that are published, as administrator I will have the right to publish or delete comments, on what comments are being provided to each blog.
Furthermore, I invite any community members to an author on this blogspot. It can be local politicians, Local Council Officers, Mayor of Blacktown, General Manager, local newspaper journalists, any local community members having a passion for the area, informing the area or just want to tell their story. If you do want to be involved, these are the following rules:
John Svoboda
There is a negative stigma, connotation when people talk about Mount Druitt, sometimes. They think that because we are within a low to medium socio-economic area in Sydney based on one of the highest unemployment rates over a number of years, high crime rates and the perception of the younger generation and their ambitions.
The Mount Druitt area is changing slowly with the modern times. There has been, is and will be great people living within Mount Druitt. People are being educated are educated and there is a high amount of community working towards a great quality of life.
I want relevant local authorities, businesses, people to make that improvement that is required to work.
If the area is not improved and left behind in a bad state or in a mess, then Mount Druitt will be left behind. It has to start from our local council which is not based in Mount Druitt based in Blacktown.
I want people to love the place they live in not mock it, leaving a positive understanding of the area we live in. People are proud but most people hide their pride. No area is deprived of such goodness and greatness.
I recommend to e-mail photo's, whether it is a small or large improvement and I will get Council other stakeholders to work with us to get things done in the right way.
This is a chance for you to have a say, do not be shy!
People are encouraged to make the initial requests telling the community what they need to improve and the area to what standard they would love Mount Druitt to be.
When I read and say 'why I love Mount Druitt', it is not just me saying this, it is all people from Mount Druitt and surrounding suburbs saying this. Neither you or I can change the people of Mount Druitt, yet we can change the physical image of Mount Druitt, which only then may change the outlook of people's thoughts of Mount Druitt.
Furthermore, this website is not designed to dishonor anyone or even government body, or business, yet any comments made is for the further progress and improvements of the Mount Druitt area.
You can send your requests by e-mail to:
nsjpas@gmail.com
I also encourage comments from every one on all blogs that are published, as administrator I will have the right to publish or delete comments, on what comments are being provided to each blog.
Furthermore, I invite any community members to an author on this blogspot. It can be local politicians, Local Council Officers, Mayor of Blacktown, General Manager, local newspaper journalists, any local community members having a passion for the area, informing the area or just want to tell their story. If you do want to be involved, these are the following rules:
- Send an e-mail with name and suburb, details of why you would like to be an author and what information will be supplied to the community
- You will receive an invitation to become an author, which you may accepted.
- You can then start on your blog, the save it drafts - do not publish it as I will have the final say, if it not published and notify you by e-mail.
- Once published, comments will be to you or if any organisation would like to contact you as a result of your blog, you will be notified by e-mail.
John Svoboda
4 comments:
i love this & i love you
I think this is a good idea of setting up this blogs allows people living in Mt Druitt to share their views, ideas and opinions of how to improve the environment here.
12 months ago i was forced out of my Castle Hill home due to DV.. Only working casually i had little income so have rented an apartment in Mount Druitt. You know something strange? You couldn't pay me to move back to The Hills . I've found the people of Mount Druitt to be REAL. Real struggles real stories and really hard working honest people. Every person i meet has a tale to tell. Most would give you the shirt off your back. What you see is what you get. I believe Mount Druitt deserves better than what it's copped. It's about time Mounty County demands respect.
I lived in Mount Druitt for most of 30 years, from the age of 1. I have many happy memories, and really enjoyed living there. Unfortunately, when I still go to my mothers house there these days, I find it has changed, and not for the better. The small street where I grew up, used to be 95% owner occupied, with hard working families. There was much bushland and even farms back then, where I and my friends could play and explore. Shops were diverse and catered to many different tastes and a great sense of community existed. This all began to change from the mid 90s onwards.
Today, the same street I grew up in, and where my mother still lives, is literally full of investment properties rented out to whatever rubbish the local estate agents can shove in there, with noisy partes, drunkeness and abuse at all hours. I have seen this same phenomena present across many areas of old mount druitt, where houses have gone and huge unit blocks rise into the sky. Many areas of bush and old buildings of my youth have vanished, again to the ever increasing unit blocks and faceless buildings.
This is really a sydney wide phenomenon, but as this blog exists for mount druitt, and that is where I spent a large and formative part of my life, that is what I have concentrated on. I have to give the blog owner congrats for taking up the challenge, but Mount druitt is an extremely poor shadow these days to that which I grew up in. I can only hope that, if a housing crash occurs and the poisonous 'investment property' and developer circus goes with it, ordinary people, with ordinary jobs will be once again able to own their own homes. I am not holding my breath. Good luck Mount Druitt.
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