Mixedgrain

Have lived here for 4 years. Nice neighborhood. Has express trains to the city and buses but not as crazy as Epping which is the next stop. Pretty complete except maybe for a bigger shopping mall but that will change as Eastwood centre is about to be redeveloped and a new shopping centre with an Aldi's is set to go up on the "Korean" side of Rowe sometime this or next year. (Don't really want a huge mall which would attract "outsiders".) We already have a Franklin's and a Woolies, 6 bakeries and heaps of asian supermarkets, fish and meat shops. Eastwood is one of the minority of suburbs with a hospital, a library, a fire station and a police station in close proximity. Lots of medical and dental offices and more hairdressers than you can shake a stick at.. We have a soccer/rugby field, croquet, cricket fields and three very nice playgrounds for kids. Oh, there's also a lawn bowling club nearby Have got 7 cafes and lots of Asian restaurants - some close at 1 am . How many suburbs can say that? Eastwood has all that but still feels very leafy and quiet. In terms of crime, it's pretty low. You've got kids hanging out at night - asians and whites. I suspect some of them are not from Eastwood. I occasionally see cops in hiphop clothes checking them out. Demographics wise, Eastwood has become increasingly Asian - Chinese, Korean and some South Asian with few Middle Easterners. Whites I'd say are about 50% of the population, many of them elderly. Property prices have been going up steadily. A 1 bedder in the new development I mentioned earlier will be around 425k.