JackyK

Great suburb. Cant recommend highly enough.

1. The primary school is excellent and achieves some of the best academic results in the state.
2. Neighbours are friendly, considerate and actually talk to each other. This is the first suburb we've lived in where we know our neighbour's names
3. Lots of parks, cycle paths, running paths and opportunity for outdoor sport events.
4. Great little marketplace/village with some great restaurants (Jags, Mokoji, Kang chon), a woolworths, medical centre and gloria jeans
5. Community/strata is very well run and theres always someone doing gardening, landscaping and maintaining the place
6. Security- 24 hour patrol around the suburb. Everyone has back to base alarm systems and neighbours will often tell you if something is out of the ordinary. Most houses have solar power
7. Not cheap but definitely value for money considering you can get a relatively new/modern double story house/big apartment whereas neighbouring suburbs (rhodes/concord/lidcombe) are full of old single story houses or tiny new apartments
8. Great location. It may not have a public transport system but it is close to the M4, 5 minute drive from lidcombe station, close to wentworth point waterfront, buses will take you to strathfield station and its near costco/shopping centres etc

Some downsides though:
1. Mosquitos throughout summer can be pretty irritating, always have some insect repellent handy when leaving the house
2. When there are events on at Sydney Olympic Park, parking can be extremely annoying as people park at Newington for free parking
3. Very small land lots (approx 300sqm is the average size)
4. Quite strict architectural standards so cant be difficult to extend property, add rooms etc etc