Jessica Qiu

I love this suburb, having lived in Yagoona as a kid, then moved to Randwick, Coogee and Darlinghurst for over 10 years, I still decided to settle my home now with my kid in this suburb.
The surburb is peaceful, especially the side of the surburb north of Hume Highway. Access to public transport is easy and there are also alot of regular bus routes to Parramatta and Hurstville, which gives you a bit of options. If you must, you can live without a car here. But like us, we own one car in the house and it is enough for almost all of our needs. And parking is a bliss. I have enough space to park 4 cars on the property and 6 cars on my side of frontage on the street. That is something I could not have dreamed of when I was living in the east, nevermind the city, simply impossible. There are just no stress coming home, knowing the street is not going to be cramped with cars everywhere.
Shopping is reasonable, I can get almost everything I need from Yagoona or Birrong shops. When I need to pick up a few more thing, I can head to Bankstown Square or Bass Hill Plaza, both 5-7 min drive away. I am not too fussed about the lack of bank branches here as I have moved to online banking a long time ago. So bank branches are not that important to me. There are ATMs amongst the shops on Hume Highway if you need some cash, but most places takes cards. From a fashion shopping perspective, I work in the city, so the lack of fashion stores in the surburb does not bother me at all. In addition, I use kmart / Amazon online shopping alot for most household things. It's really not that important to be "living amongst" the shops. In fact, I prefer the quite and peace away from the crowds. It is nice to have you own piece of tranquillity.
Schools around the surburb is fine, the teaching staff is very dedicated from my son's school. And I think education amongst a mixed group has proven a good approach. I send my child to the catholic school because of our faith, the level of care from the school is overwhelmingly great.
I am educated in this area, and now I work as a successful executive in my mid thirties. My younger sister went to the public school here, and she is now a very successful tech professional in the Silicon Valley. I think that says alot about the schools here and how they can nurture young minds.
I think the surburb has alot of potential, It is indeed geographically at the center of Sydney. There are still alot opportunities for one to cease up a good piece of land to achieve their "Aussie dream".