"I think that you could find some evidence to say that over time Logan's stigma has decreased and it is seen as an area where there are affordable homes, where there is access to employment, and that that diversity is actually a good thing, not a bad thing in that area," she says.There's also the option of taking your suburb's stigma and running with it.That's what residents of the Wollongong suburb of Albion Park did after it was included on a list of the 10 "most bogan suburbs" in Australia.Instead of rejecting the label, residents appropriated it, and proposed to their local council that a giant Ugg boot statue be erected in the centre of town in celebration of their bogan-ness. ‘Generally, it has been regarded as something of a replacement for previously used terms like ‘larrikin’,’ Mr Paternoster told Bogan was first included in the Oxford English Dictionary back in 2012. Lonely Planet. Since then, other states have put their own twist on the word with Queenslanders using ‘bevans’ and Sydneysiders saying ‘westies’ for those from the western suburbs. They have asked for some advice of what parts of Melbourne are considered to be not most the desirable to live in. No part of this site may be reproduced without our written permission. That's what residents of the Wollongong suburb of Albion Park did after it was included on a list of the 10 "most bogan suburbs" in Australia. As reported on Channel 7 6pm evening news 1st March 2010. ‘It becomes this stereotype where some people are for it, some people are against it but there’s an actual human cost or consequence associated with it,’ he said. You can tell a bogan just by looking at them lol "Stigma is about stereotypes and preconceptions, and we have preconceptions about wealthy neighbourhoods as much as we have about poor neighbourhoods," Dr Wiesel says.And he says those preconceptions seem to change, depending on a person's sex.Dr Wiesel says many older men say living in affluent suburbs is "a sign of their own success, their business success, their professional success".Not so for women he has interviewed from the same areas.Australia has a class system, and it has real consequences in people's lives. Their definition of the word read: ‘depreciative term for an unfashionable, uncouth, or unsophisticated person, especially of low social status’. Beaches scattered with waste, wild campers ruining delicate environments, cautions from a progressively overstretched Coastguard, unaffordable lodgings. Perhaps a pattern emerges?In terms of nicer places to live: the closer to the city you are, the nicer areas are as a general rule, but the price rises steeply the closer you get. They are teased and ridiculed for being 'too bogan' or for having a concerning past. The place you're warned against, or make jokes about. I live very close to a few of those suburbs and feel safe walking around at night. From crowded unit markets in the Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane inner … You can tell a bogan just by looking at them lol "You could not get a more friendly area and I'm a bit stunned that it still has a bit of a rep," he says.Which is not to say he believes suburb warnings are never warranted.Nic says he was "an inner-westie in Sydney for ages", living in Surry Hills in the 1990s "when people were telling me ... it's nothing but junkies and slums". Check us out for all the latest in News. "I think class is a fundamental fault line that runs through stigma," she That stigma has a real impact on people, who might feel a deep sense of personal shame, or even hide their address on a resume. "I think it's a good example of how you can actually take the stigma and turn it over its head really," Dr Wiesel says.Get more stories that go beyond the news cycle with our weekly newsletter.This service may include material from Agence France-Presse (AFP), APTN, Reuters, AAP, CNN and the BBC World Service which is copyright and cannot be reproduced.We've never been richer, so why hasn't the poverty rate budged? Tasmanians use ‘chiggas’ or ‘chiggs’, short for the suburb Chigwell, for those they claim the local bogans hailed from.