Henry Street, West Croydon, SA 5008

This is one of the more popular streets in the area as it is located within walking distance to the cafe’s of Queen Street and provides easy access to South Road.

We have recently moved to West Croydon from the Eastern suburbs and are absolutely loving it . Our old Italian neighbours generously give us olive oil from the homegrown olives in their huge garden and our other neighbours keep ducks . And the beautiful Greek lady across the road sharing her beautiful greek biscuits at Easter and minded the dogs when we went away !

It has a very inner city Melbourne feeling about it . There is a strip of cafes , a bakery , vinatge stores and some other really quirky stores . There is a great park around the corner where people congrgate on summer nights and 2 other parks within walking distance . The local school has a lovely community feel , is small and is a part of the Stephanie Alexander gardening project . My children love it , and that we stroll to school rather then do the mad morning rush .

The train stop is a 5 minute walk and it takes about 7 minutes to get into the city . Port rd is great as it has 3 lanes and flows nicely , I'm rarely stuck in traffic . Apparently the Port rd trams will be continued down to Port Adelaide soon .

On our first Sunday morning here we were walking to the cafe when a person getting their morning paper off the front lawn shouted to us ' mornin' ..nice day for it ' . My husband and I looked at each other wondering if we knew them . Turns out they were just doing the neighbourly thing and warmly welcoming us into a community that feels like a neighbourhood from a time when life was simpler , safer and slower .