JK2

Close access to the river walk, leafy and has mature Jacaranda trees. Safe and lovely neighbourhood. Best street in Maylands!

Maylands is still a little known secret. Within the suburb are several large parks, numerous cycle tracks and river walks. There's good public transport and unique houses on some streets. The suburb is quite safe and family-friendly. The only downside is the lack of good NBN connections but you can get over that by installing fixed wireless. Overall a great suburb to buy in if you're looking for value. 10 minutes drive to airport and CBD.

Penrith is probably one of the few suburbs in Sydney that is going in the right direction. It has NBN, plans for infrastructure and city redevelopment underway (which I hope will commence soon), and is at the foot of the Blue Mountains which is a beautiful tourist destination. The new Thornton suburb in North Penrith looks fantastic - beautiful and green. There is also plans to turn Penrith Lakes into a parkland suburb which I find extremely exciting. Penrith council documents the progress of plans it has for the city very transparently and has already rezoned many areas in the city. As a young professional couple, we really hope we can stay in Penrith, as the vision for the city's future is very hopeful.

Unfortunately, there is a lot of social housing with prominent drug areas. I wouldn't want to stay in Penrith as it currently is, but I see that a lot of change is happening - I just hope that this change will continue to happen, and quickly, as Parramatta is also being rebuilt. I don't want to see Penrith fall into the background. It deserves to be a great place to live, work and leisure - it's position is ideal, much better than Parramatta's position as a CBD. It has so much potential. I would buy a house here and relocate as soon as I see some concrete evidence that the council's plans for redevelopment are in the works - ie. the CIty Park and Kingswood redevelopment, or building commencement.