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We don't want to be in the city of Sydney we want to be in the suburbs

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We don't want to be in the city of Sydney we want to be in the suburbs

 

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Sydney is much larger than London, the suburbs go on for miles - how far out do you want to go, so how far are you prepared to travel in to work every day? Or do you, perhaps mean that you would prefer a smaller town like Newcastle, Gosford, Wollongong ...

Sydney is much larger than London, the suburbs go on for miles - how far out do you want to go, so how far are you prepared to travel in to work every day? Or do you, perhaps mean that you would prefer a smaller town like Newcastle, Gosford, Wollongong ...

With our rental budget we are looking around middketon grange, kellyville, etc with working in a industrial area around the same. Don't really want to work in sydney itself if we can avoid it as we're nit big city people

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Berowra isn't in the city. It's about as far as you can get before you are officially out of Sydney. It's hard t tell from the UK what's what, but the 'city' only really covers the more immediate area (inner west, inner east, around Central down to the airport and the Eastern Suburbs, and some of the area to the south).

If you live in Berowra, you would live in a place that really just in the bush, near big river but with some shops nearby (Coles etc), but it's more like a village. You should really look on Google Maps, zoom in, look about. You'll see that these places are not in the city at all.

e.g. - http://www.riverfront.com.au/BerowraWaters/BerowraWatersScenic.JPG

I really think you could work all this stuff out once you get here. Keep an open mind... We chose an area to live in based on what we read on the internet, and it wasn't right for us, and now we are moving.

We don't want to be in the city of Sydney we want to be in the suburbs

Berowra is a suburb. An outer suburb.

Another really nice suburb is Brooklyn. It is the northernmost suburb of the Greater Sydney Metropolitan Area.

Or one step over from Brooklyn is another great place to live : Dangar Island

But it really depends where you will be working.

As pointless living in Brooklyn, if you plan on working in Sutherland. It would take you three hours to drive to work.

But perfect living in Brooklyn; if you had a job in Hornsby.

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With our rental budget we are looking around middketon grange, kellyville, etc with working in a industrial area around the same. Don't really want to work in sydney itself if we can avoid it as we're nit big city people

There is a fair distance between Middleton Grange and Kellyville.

If you are working in Middleton Grange, then nearby Camden is classed as semi-rural.

If you are working in Kellyville, then nearby places like Dural, Arcadia, Galston and Fiddletown are lovely semi-rural country areas to live.

If you can afford it, and don't mind a bit of a commute, then Wisemans Ferry is lovely too.

Berowra isn't in the city. It's about as far as you can get before you are officially out of Sydney.

That pretty much sums it up.

It is classed as a suburb of Sydney still.

But it's an outer suburb. 38 kilometres north of the Sydney CBD.

Has good bus service and train service. And all the facilities a family needs.

Lots of bushwalking in the surrounding National Park. Boating down at Berowra Waters.

A popular place to raise children as classed as very safe.

Has a community there. Too big to be a village really if you compare it with UK villages. But they call themselves a village. Biggest event of the year is the Woodchop.

http://www.thebushtele.com.au/

Only 15 minutes by train to the shopping hub of Hornsby. And about a 35 - 45 minute drive to Kellyville.

Here's a couple of recent studies:

http://www.domain.com.au/news/domain-liveable-sydney-citys-555-suburbs-ranked/

and http://www.domain.com.au/news/for-the-most-liveable-sydney-areas-for-families-head-north-20160812-gqoetj/

I wouldn't take these exactly at face value, but there's some tips there, There's loads of places here, all with a slightly different flavour, and different cost of living.