Inner cities suburbs used to offer cheap housing and grungy atmospherics. Now they provide funky venues and developers with an art budget.
‘Yuppie scum,’ someone has added to the billboard advertising off-the-plan apartments; ‘Stay out of Footscray.’ Perhaps it was a flouro-vested drinker from the pub next door or a resident from the down-at-heel boarding house across the road. It’s unlikely either of them will be living in the inner-western Melbourne suburb soon. Footscray, once
