Sydney: Houses still cheap at Warragamba, rural area, close to Blue Mountains

[Locksley]

I thought I'd put up a post for what will shortly become our new area.
My wife and I have just purchased our first home in the quaint rural community of Warragamba, NSW.
Nestled at the base of the Blue Mountains it is part of the Wollondilly Shire and being classed as a rural area, rates and services are cheaper than the suburbs of Sydney.
You can still buy decent homes out that way for between $300,000 and $400,000.
Close to the large town of Penrith where all shopping and such needs can be met.

Plenty of meat and grocery markets in the local area.
Nearby Silverdale is an up and coming suburb and will have it's own mod-con shopping centre in the near future.
Plenty of schools around.
Western Sydney Uni campus not far away.

No trains and only a couple of bus links a day.
No pubs, only a local RSL club.

Surrounded by natrual bushland and Warragamba Dam, it's a very quiet area, with few, if any tourists, since visitors to the Dam were banned a few years ago.
The Blue Mountains are just up the road.

No graffiti, no vandalism, no passing traffic.
Most people who live in Warra were the men and women who built the Dam or the descendants thereof.
Nationalities are Aussies and English with a few Europeans thrown in.

If anyone's looking for a bit of old Australia, rural peace and quiet, yet still close to a major town, then Warragamba is certainly worth taking a look at.

Here's a real estate link: http://www.realestate.com.au/buy/in-...Sort=price-asc

Cheers: Locksley

[bensdad]

My uncle and his family moved there as ten pound poms loved it and his children still live there now

[MARYROSE02]

I went for a drive there a couple of years ago. Interesting to look around and get the feel of the history. I'm sure I went in the club. Is the dam completely closed to the public? I thought I was able to go down to a viewing area?

I don't know if I'd fancy commuting to the city from there, having to travel to Penrith first? OK if you work in Penrith of course but with limited public transport you are 'stranded' without a car?

[Locksley]

I went for a drive there a couple of years ago. Interesting to look around and get the feel of the history. I'm sure I went in the club. Is the dam completely closed to the public? I thought I was able to go down to a viewing area?

I don't know if I'd fancy commuting to the city from there, having to travel to Penrith first? OK if you work in Penrith of course but with limited public transport you are 'stranded' without a car?

If the public viewing area is the oval tar car park, at the end of a long tar road, then yeah, that's still open.
But years ago you used to be able to walk on the dam wall.

You're right about being stranded if you don't have a car.
There's a supermarket in Warra, so you won't starve to death.

I could bicycle from Warra to the surounding areas, no problem.
My wife is looking forward to being able to ride her motorcycle on the quiet country roads to get around.

We don't work in Sydney City, so it's not a problem for us. If we never go there again we don't much care.
Haven't been to the CBD for a few years now, and last time was only to visit the Galaxy SF bookshop and Dymocks bookshop.
We buy all our books on-line now, cheaper and much easier.

But you're right; Drive to Penrith, take the train into the city.
Alternative; drive to Liverpool, take the train in that way.
Warra to Liverpool is only about half an hour, down the Northern Rd, then turn left along Bringelly Rd, takes you into Liverpool.

[Locksley]

My uncle and his family moved there as ten pound poms loved it and his children still live there now

We've met a few people at Warra who wouldn't live anywhere else.
Not often you hear that, anywhere close to Sydney.