There is more to the Bendigo suburb of Long Gully than the reputation for drugs, drink, poverty and bad behaviour that has dogged it for decades.
Public housing backs onto the old Victoria Hill gold diggings but there has been a slow and steady gentrification as new-look homes dot the neighbourhood.
Money has moved up the Calder Highway over the past two years as young professionals, families and established couples from Melbourne relocate or buy in, to flip houses.
