rachall Posted June 21, 2012 Share Posted June 21, 2012 Hi I have a job offer in hammondville and the majority of my partners family living in Camden. Never been to oz myself so don't know much about the areas. Have 3 children, all school and college age - is this a decent place to live? It's not a big commute, but obviously family will be biased that this will be a good place to set up home. Opinions please, we would need somewhere between the two and as initially renting - reasonable house prices Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MARYROSE02 Posted June 21, 2012 Share Posted June 21, 2012 I've never lived in Camden but I rather liked it when I visited it - like a small town rather than a suburb, with a bit of countryside around and I think it's got a hospital but no station. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rachall Posted June 21, 2012 Author Share Posted June 21, 2012 Hi maryrose02 Station not an issue as I will be getting a company car. Glad to hear that it has a small town feel as I currently live in a village in Gloucestershire and there are no big towns or large suburbs, so I shouldn't feel to overwhelmed and the children should be able to socialise (hopefully) with ease. Thanks for your input Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quoll Posted June 21, 2012 Share Posted June 21, 2012 IMHO one should never move close to the inlaws when one of you is a foreigner in a new country. No matter how brilliant they are, it's always going to be your OH's folk, friends, culture, environment and that skews things - we have a lot of people on here who have discovered that their OHs change when they get back among their own and not always for the better. Far better to be your own little family on your own with each of you working hard to establish your family group in a new place - even with the best will in the world, when one of you has all of their own around them and the other has none of theirs, then resentment can bubble up quite quickly and often irrationally. Camden is OK but wouldnt be my choice and it would be quite a trek every day. I'd be looking in quite the other direction - down in Sutherland shire which would put a reasonable distance between you and the outlaws Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genghis Khan Posted June 21, 2012 Share Posted June 21, 2012 The western suburbs always remind me of Milton Keynes. Everything new an very suburban. More like an Aussie version of Milton Keynes than of an Aussie version of a Gloucestershire or Oxfordshire village anyway.... I think if you don't like Milton Keynes, you won't like the western suburbs! All just imo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickyNook Posted June 21, 2012 Share Posted June 21, 2012 Camden is not a western suburb and is nothing like Milton Keynes. It's one of the original towns in the area and was established around 1840. It has plenty of old colonial buildings and some very nice historic properties in the area. New suburbs are approaching Camden but they don't surround it. There's a nice mix of property types - you can live rural or in an established, old area or in a brand new sub-division. Camden has a nice, old-fashioned High Street and there are large malls nearby at Narellan and Campbelltown. Cobbitty, just up the road, is real pony-club territory. Housing is not extortionately-priced. Down-side is that it gets hot in the summer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MARYROSE02 Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 Camden is not a western suburb and is nothing like Milton Keynes. It's one of the original towns in the area and was established around 1840. It has plenty of old colonial buildings and some very nice historic properties in the area. New suburbs are approaching Camden but they don't surround it. There's a nice mix of property types - you can live rural or in an established, old area or in a brand new sub-division. Camden has a nice, old-fashioned High Street and there are large malls nearby at Narellan and Campbelltown. Cobbitty, just up the road, is real pony-club territory. Housing is not extortionately-priced. Down-side is that it gets hot in the summer. That's exactly what I thought about the place. I went for a drive one day, as I did most days, picking a suburb at random, and when I got to Camden, I thought 'this is nice!' A proper little High Street, some attractive old homes, plenty of greenery. Come to think of it, I'm sure when I asked my brother his opinion he said 'bloody hot in summer' (although he substituted another word for 'bloody!') I just 'Googled' 'Hammondville' to refresh my memory and I was thinking that it is not that far away from where my brother lives in Picnic Point just off Henry Lawson Drive, and I'd recommend Picnic Point/Panania/Revesby to anyone wanting somewhere pleasant to live. There's everything you'd want there and it's a short drive along Henry Lawson to the M5 then probably off again at Heathcote Road. East Hills, Panania, Revesby all have stations on the Campbelltown to City via Airport line and it's about half way between Campbelltown and the City. Panania & Revesby (and Padstow, the next stop towards the City) all have good shopping centres and there's a huge shopping mall in Bankstown just a couple of kilometers further away. My brother has been living in Picnic Point for over twenty years and raised his kids there. The Uni of Western Sydney has a campus at Milperra - very close to East Hills - and the trains are handy if your kids are going into the city for Sydney Uni, UTS, or Sydney Techincal College. Wattle Grove near to Hammondville might suit you too. Lots of new homes if I remember correctly but I'm not sure if I liked it or not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rachall Posted June 22, 2012 Author Share Posted June 22, 2012 Thanks every one for your replies, much appreciated. Will check out the areas mentioned and will explore on arrival. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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