High-and-lower-mid Sydney combine in a suburb with plenty to do – particularly outdoors – but significant traffic problems, high detached house prices, and some dirty patches mar it slightly.
The North Shore’s primary hub for transport & shopping offers plenty of amenity, but prices have blown out significantly and overdevelopment has hit Chatswood fairly hard.
With a reasonable price by Sydney standards given its distance from the city, Mortdale has a lot to like, and still represents a pocket of pretty good value – particularly for apartments.
Big impressive houses, on big impressive blocks, with big impressive parks, equals big – impressive – pricetags.
Big housing blocks and gentrification makes for rapidly increasing prices, while its streetscape is a mixed bag of nice greenery, wide streets, and graffiti.
Tiny, seldom-discussed little suburb sits in a sneaky-good position that may not be beautiful, but is quite convenient and decently-priced by Sydney standards.
Plenty of room, fairly reasonable prices and good slices of greenery are offset by a lack of things to do, while connectivity remains an issue.
The high end of town in terms of both physical position and budget, Wahroonga is achingly pretty – and achingly expensive.
A suburb that combines family-friendliness with a cavalcade of amenities, Rozelle’s high prices and ongoing traffic issues mar what is otherwise an enviable place to live.
Compact & convenient, Meadowbank offers reasonable value given its connectivity and location, but it’s going to be mostly high-density apartment living for all but a cashed-up few here.
