A tolerated zone of increasingly isolated desperate homeless kids and teens, and of course, those who exploit them. Like all cities, Melbourne has its containment policies for those who don't fit in. The bigger an area's role as ghetto is, the harder it is to find somewhere to sit down, take a pee, or do anything not tied to quick commerce and fast purchase. They actually set it up that way. They plan that stuff.
People sit down and work all that stuff out.
Just off the main drag, away from the shiny 'official' 'family entertainment' type arcades, the funky arcades have rows and rows of only the most popular, profitable games. You won't find that in Timezone. The area has made the news lately as a bit of a heroin scene, and for as long as I've known it, has been a bit 'sus'. You occasionally see people running into or out of alleys just that bit too quickly, people in various states of demise and stupor, the neon flashing signs reflected in dimming eyes. That edge, that nervous ache to the street is getting stronger all the time.