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It’s unfortunate that the lush green pastures of Oakville is now heading for development being the last acres town in line with development on Windsor Road. The area can troubled from its Riverstone neighbours. Overall it depends which part of Oakville your located. The further away from Windsor Road or the other heavy traffic roads you are, the better it is.

Hornsby is actually in a great little place and has improved over the years. It’s great for transport, however, travel distance is far. After a working week, it was great to be able to get to northern beach or central coast quickly or even yes up the road to Berowra, Berowra Waters or Brooklyn. Westfield is great as it has unique stores and shops/restaurants you wouldn’t find in Eg Parramatta. It’s has nice festivals too. A laid back area, but not without issues. There is extensive housing commission blocks and Hornsby Hospital has a psychiatric section, where they are treated in lockdown. Often these housing commission blocks, cater for the psychiatric patients, which gives them access to the hospital. Issues from this are: theft, screaming, graffiti, drugs, alcoholism, homelessness and kids hanging around the streets.

Trendy area, with lots of parks, native wildlife and a good few kilometres for bushwalking. Terrible for riding bikes, as it’s quite hilly, but lots of locals go for evening walks and friendly enough to say Hello or have a bit of a chat Oatlands Golf Club is a beautiful place to pop in over the weekend for a drink and nibbles, while sitting back and taking in the view of rolling lawns or city skyline. Oatlands has long been a prestige area. With many residents opting for the area for the prestige schools, TARA and KIngs Schools.
As stated in previous comments the only down side is neighbouring suburbs Telopea and Dundas, which contain housing commission blocks, homes and they were targeting Oatlands for theft. However, in the last 5 years the Housing Commission has developed in Telopea and Dundas with old buildings demolished and new buildings built, which has given these suburbs a facelift and seems to have had a good impact on their residents for good. If any robberies in Oatlands, it’s being targeted from other areas, other than Telopea and Dundas now. Also a reminder regarding the pricing of properties in Oatlands: Oatlands has mostly very large blocks, with most starting 900m2 to well over 2000m2. Now that high rises are being developed in Parramatta City, homes around Oatlands have city views and are looking forward to watch NYE fireworks going off from the skyscrapers. The community is tight nit when it comes to protecting the street scape of the area. Everyone loves prestige Oatlands House and Oatlands Golf Course. The local shops has a country town feel, as the shops owners do get to know everyone. Oatlands will develop further and will progress to be the next Equivalent to the suburbs that are within a 4km radius of Sydney City. Western Sydney University is close and from some points of Oatlands is walkable distance. Regarding noise, yes, but mainly from the main roads surrounding the area and affecting residents along those immediate areas. Otherwise, I can say it’s what is expected for it’s locality. Close to quick freeways and major roads, having immediate links to wherever you want to go in metropolitan or NSW.
Most residents of Oatlands are the owners of the properties, with only a small percentage of Rental properties. The only fault I can find is some gardens are over grown. This is mainly residents that have no little or no idea how to mow a lawn or keep a garden. But also cultures that tend to stay out of the sun to show wealth, or don’t know council regulations for street maintenance. Thank goodness it’s only a few and these residents certainly get told to look after their gardens.