Hay Street, Ashbury, NSW 2193

Having grown up here and still coming to visit family, this is a great pocket in the inner west of Sydney. All our neighbours are mates and open homes to one another. Christmas gatherings with neighbours is common and quiet (towards the south part of the street). Occasionally you can get some idiots who speed there but overall it's great. Parks are a few metres away (from the bottom of the street), Campsie or even Ashfield train stations are the closest to Hay and the same applies to shopping centres (approx 1km away) although Burwood is not far either.
The only issue I can pick on, is the occasional smell from the river (south side) and some traffic on north side due to thoroughfare traffic from George's River Rd.