Hi Where is a good place to live in Sydney for a family (2Adults +4children) with good schools etc?

Question

We are looking to emigrate from the UK and dont know the good areas. Looking for suburbs with land or coastal.

Answer 1

Sydney is a city of four million people and covers a large area. Many places could be suitable for you and there are good schools everywhere. It really depends on where you are working and how you are going to get to work. The Central Coast has much to offer but not if you are working in Sutherland. Public transport in Sydney is, for the most part, radial. Most of it goes to the city. Consequently if you were living in the eastern suburbs ( a great area) and working near Macquarie University, getting there by public transport would take three buses or two buses and a train.

If you want land, the standard quarter acre block starts some distance out from the older settled areas. The blocks are smaller in the older areas. If you want more than a quarter acre, you will be buying two blocks. With the price of land in Sydney you will need to be well out of the city to find it even if you can afford it. This is where the Central Coast and the Blue Mountains become options. If you want a large block near the coast near the city, start at a couple of million dollars and go up from there.

Take your time. Find out where you will be working and look at renting near there to start with. Then explore and look for what you want. You can see what is available all over Sydney with prices in the Real Estate section of the Sydney Morning Herald on Saturdays http://www.smh.com.au

Answer 2

I'm in South-Western Sydney (Macarthur Region), though there is some not so good characters in this region, there is alot more good than bad.

I have lived all over the city and this has been the best area by far. My children go to private school but that is by choice. There are many good schools around. And it is still very rural with both suburban blocks and large properties, high-rise doesn't go any higher than about 2-4 floors maximum and is very sparce. Mainly it's homes, rather than apartments, and we are only half an hour from the beach at Wollongong.

Answer 3

The Central Coast of NSW is a good place to reside.We have some of the best beaches and travel to sydney by public transport is only an hour and a half away. Rent here is cheaper than most other places in sydney and the general community are very friendly and helpful. Some of Australias best known Celebrities either reside here themselves or were once residents themselves. ie: Belinda Emmet, Casey Chambers, Natalie Imbruglia... The list goes on...

Answer 4

I lived in Wollongong for 8 years and loved it, beach at your door, sydney only 1.5hrs away and a large population with over 30 suburbs to choose from. Wollongong ha s 1hrs drive of coastal area all which have housing and work. Good Luck.

Answer 5

Hi,
You can look into the eastern suburbs - will you be renting? the rental market is very tight at the moment, rents are raised due to shortage and high demand.
For good value that is slightly cheaper than the eastern suburbs try Southern suburbs e.g Brighton Le Sands, Rockdale, etc etc

Living close to the beach is nice for a young family - plenty of shopping centres, schools etc in both Eastern & Southern suburbs.
I myself am an eastern suburbs girl - lived her my whole life

Answer 6

Don't just focus on Sydney. I'm telling you right now, there are heaps of jobs in rural areas, and the lifestyle out of the major capitals is so much better. I live in North Victoria, in Shepparton, and I commute for 5 minutes to get to work. I would never live in the big capitals. It just costs way too much.

If you move to a small country town on the coast (such as Lakes Entrance in Victoria, or Bega in NSW,) you'd get all the ocean views you'd want and the time to enjoy it.

If you live in Sydney, you'll spend all your money just trying to pay the rent. The property prices are obscene in the major capitals.

If you have a qualification, such as medicine or law or management, there are heaps of towns that need workers. Companies such as Campbells Soups, Unilever, IXL etc have factories in rural areas because they can keep their overheads low.

If I were you, come to Sydney, and then on your weekends go out to towns you'd like to live in, go to a coffee shop, and ask the locals where on a map they'd like to live, and what schools they'd choose. There's nothing like hearing it from the locals.

Answer 7

i suggest the central coast is a nice holiday feel place to live and its only approx 2 hrs from the cbd also most parts of the Eastern suburbs are good and the Northern suburbs are good too.

Answer 8

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