If you really want to find a good place to live, when using google maps do NOT use they key word "Sydney".
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If you really want to find a good place to live, when using google maps do NOT use they key word "Sydney".
Spill the beans. Are you coming here for work, fun, or a girl?Quote:
Originally Posted by Yorkshire_Jon
Are you going to be working in the city or suburbs?
Do you want to live near the beach or the bush.
Try to get some local advice first as a nice looking commuter road in sydney usualy ends up a carpark, and a nice looking street could be on the main flightpath.
Just to fire people up a bit my observations are::angel:
Easter suburbs - Heaven on earth (except for the crowds, no parking, and the self centred people who live there)
North shore - Better than the Eastern suburbs (but don't tell any one as they will all want to live here), hell commute to the city - they all lie and tell you it takes 15-20 min less than it does and thats each way!!!
St peters, mascot, arncliff - bad airplane noise. need to be futher away from airport to sleep.
Further west than that is cheeper housing but I've no personal experiance of the areas.
Good luck.
South is the only area really, bugger the east, west and north, but even better is the Illawarra, less crowded, less traffic, less people, more room better house and land prices, close to the coast, bush areas, easy access to the south coast and southern Highlands and still close enough too Sydney too work there.Quote:
Originally Posted by black betty
What more could you want:D
Baz.
Where is this Arncliff place that gets all the aircraft noise? :mad:Quote:
Originally Posted by black betty
I live in Arncliffe and I get less aircraft noise than friends who live at Pennant Hills, Randwick, Lillyfield, Kurnel the list goes on. :)
Open your map and draw a line from Arncliffe to the intersection of the 2 main runways, then compare Arncliffe to the 3rd runway. The suburb is too close to the airport for any commercial jet jet to pass over your house and land on any of the 3 runways. It is also a very tight banked turn to take off to the West and head North from the 2nd runway and pass over my house and that is the only jet movement that has any impact on where I live.
The downside to living in this suburb is that:
- we have 2 main railway lines and 3 stations serving the suburb and rarely hear the trains except in the dead of night.
- the 400 bus runs through the suburb to take me to the front door of my work or the Uni of NSW.
- The Princess Highway and the (free part of the) M5 run through the suburb so driving to the South, West or North is a cinch.
- It never takes more than 45 minutes during the worst of peak hour traffic to get to the city or anywhere in the Eastern Suburbs with the average journey throughout the rest of the day and night taking less than 15 minutes.
Think again when you decide to bad mouth where someone owns and lives.
Anywhere around Sydney is OK really ..........................
The northern suburbs you have the Great Barrier Reef and rain forests, the eastern suburbs has a bit of a creek then the east island, the southern suburbs has the high country and the western suburbs has the deserts etc.
It may be a bit far to commute to work but I thought all you AULROians were more into enjoying the great outdoors than working :wasntme:
Roger
Redback is on the money - South is the best for lifestyle, location and red blooded Aussie birds :cool:
Where are you working and what are you driving? That's the clincher - if you have something worth driving off road, you might not want to coop it up in the city!
To make things really simple - just stay east, north east or south east of the city - can't go too wrong with that...
(apologies to all the westies out there :p :wasntme: :p
Spilling the beans...Quote:
Originally Posted by black betty
Strong possibility of coming over to work. Already have Mrs Yorkshire_Jon - she'd be coming too.
Working will be CBD based (main office), but depending on the job I may not need to be there everyday, some work will be site based.
I started another thread "Hypothetically speaking...Moving to Sydney" a while ago. A few people suggested suburbs... Now I know a bit more about where they are its making life easier to look at properties from over here.
I like the idea of Emu Plains - 10 mins from mountains, a few minutes from the motorway. Downside is that it would appear to be a bit too far from Sydney CBD for a daily commute. As for northern suburbs, Hornsby, Thornliegh both seem to be on the mainline train route so Im guessing commuting is OK??
Someone else suggested that Paramatta would be as far out of CBD as I should be looking - everything west is too far out... thoughts please.
Regards,
Jon
Now if you wanted to ask about El Arncliff? Then I know where that is, their mosque is about a one click from my place. You just have to follow any hijab and you'll find it! It's the place with all the black RRS and black Beemers with 24" bling wheels and 30 aspect tyres. :) :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Numpty's Missus
There's not much 4WDing east of Sydney so you are looking in the right area.
Thornleigh/Hornsby is a nice part of Sydney with plenty of bushland and extra nice people. Re commuting to the CBD you have the choice of two train routes - the North Shore line or the Mainline through Strathfield. Personally, I prefer the NS Line, more direct and therefore a bit faster - about 30 mins in peak hour.
Access to the north and west is good and fairly free of traffic. If you wanted to travel south there is a tollway that takes you to the south west of Sydney in about 45 mins.
Real estate is a bit cheaper around Emu Plains but as you correctly said, it's a bit far from the CBD - 'P38aRover' may disagree with me on that and he would know travel times to CBD. The Motorway from Emu Plains is only useful during non peak times as it is a car park during peak times.
Roger
It is fifty years since I have lived in Sydney, so I am a bit out of date. However I have one friend who lives in West Pennant Hills, and has commuted into the city until he retired this year. I stayed with him last year and found there was an express bus into the city, which seemed to work well.
As far as Parramatta being as far west as you would want to commute from, I would point out that significant numbers have been commuting from as far west as Katoomba or even further for over 100 years.
John