Cassandra Hawkins

I moved to Lithgow in 2014...and I wouldn't want to live anywhere else. I was almost immediately accepted here (unlike some country towns where you're a stranger for 30 years) and I have made THE best friends here. There is something for everyone. Choirs, Folk group, Ukulele group. Lots of sports for both young and old such as hockey, football, tennis, basketball, cricket, go kart club, lawn bowls, croquet and gateball club to name a few. A garden club, community native garden centre (council) and a community vege garden at the PCYC. Plenty of things to get involved in. So much I would like to do...too much - but I am involved in a few! Arts and crafts (really rushing ahead in the past couple of years), museums, lots of history, great natural environment to be explored. Really all you NEED is in town, Coles, Aldi and Woolworths, Bunnings, Harvey Norman and a couple of furniture stores...and if you can't get what you want here...Bathurst is only about 45 minutes away, as is Katoomba - in the opposite direction. Winters ARE cold, with the added magical bonus of snow most years (not lots...you would be very rarely snowed in). Summers are an average of 5 degrees cooler than the mid to lower Blue Mountains even when there is a heat wave (and mostly not as humid). Plenty of schools, public and private. Train links to Sydney and the highway has been improved over the past few years (with more about to happen). People who whinge about nothing to do...just aren't looking or trying...and yes there is a drug element here...but where isn't there? I've never been affected by any negatives here. Oh, and great cafes (plenty of them) - I still haven't tried them all (after 7 years).