Moving to Sydney - Advice

[puurri]

try campbelltown
30 mins to Thirroul and surrounding waves.
30 mins to Parra by train.
Cheap rent.
10 mins to the haunted town of Picton if you like ghosts.
No beach but.
Yet with todays super duper technological mastery you can check the waves on your computer thingymajig on a surfcam.
Also nice walks in Burragorang National Park


become a Westie!

and a great art gallery. If they could get Djon Mundine there as curator then it must be good.

[Clif]

Do you mean Casula Powerhouse? That place is incredible.

[steve shearer]

Of course, your completely right.
Stay in the city you fcuking robots and slaves.
Live and die your meaningless little existences, fight like rats for your little piece of cheese.
Phew....for one minute I could see the hordes coming over the hill.

[Trev]

Phew....for one minute I could see the hordes coming over the hill.

OK I'm paranoid.

Paranoid ain't the half of it. I'd say you're paranoid to the 10th power.
Sad really. :?
I'm tipping you aren't a born and bred local, Merkin.
Anyway, I was surfing there before you were.

[roundhouse]

Steve thats true, but unless your a tradie your not going to be making big $$ in a coastal town and with jobs going the way they are its not getting any better hence why im leaving the Sunny C. The work i do means I have to be on the road and see customers and be near a city.

This isnt a permanent move either, im not looking to buy a house or stay for good, just moving for a couple of years for work and to experience a new place and get some different waves and cop some winter south swells which never make it past byron!

[steve shearer]

Well good luck Pilgrim.
Sounds like south of the harbour is the place to be.

[The Oracle]

If you guys had to pick a place to live close to the beach in the sydney area where would you pick?

Freshy or Curly

[oldman]

Stay in the city you fcuking robots and slaves.
Live and die your meaningless little existences, fight like rats for your little piece of cheese.

Perhaps a little dip into parochialism there steve, maybe even provincialism. That statement is just a few steps away from waving an aussie flag in our faces and demanding we salute it. I'm sure it was all in jest, except the bit that you deep down believe.

On that note, and in keeping with my habit of hijacking threads, merkin, can you recommend any establishments for a couple of nights accommodation in Byron. Family of 4.

Seen a few in the googleometer but wouldn't mind some local knowledge. Haven't been up in a few years and usually use to stay with friends so never got to know any of the accommodation outlets.

Cheers fellas. Here, have one of these as a down payment.

Is there anything a mr green cannot do?

[oldman]

Back on topic, apologies there roundhouse.

Northern beaches - great beaches, outrageous crowds, travel to city from the north usually has the effect of sucking the very marrow of your existence from your bones. And you'll pay for this apparent privilege.

Eastern suburbs, best location for city work, close to a number of average to good beaches. Crowds horrendous, but probably not as bad as north side, unless you go to Bondi. Surfing at Bondi usually has the effect of sucking the very marrow of your existence from your bones. Iggy's suggestions re south eastern suburbs, you can get a reasonable rental around Maroubra, that's reasonable in the context of Sydney, which is prohibitively expensive. Other suggestions of Malabar, Matraville, Hillsdale, Pagewood etc are genuine cheaper options and about 5 minutes drive from the beach. Not salubrious suburbs by any stretch, but if you don't mind that you'll save a couple of hundred in rent a week.

The Sutherland shire - there is only one reason to live in white bread world, and that is to be close to one of the stretch of beaches, well beach really, just one. Train journey from Cronulla to city is a nice way to get into work. It's the end of the line so you can sit down on the all stations and read a book. Travel time, can't remember, someone else will clarify, an hourish just the train.

You need to be able to read a book and ignore the pregnant women and old and infirm people as they get on so that you keep your seat. Everybody else does.

There you have it mate. Good luck, it'll be a great experience for ya.

[steve shearer]

Stay in the city you fcuking robots and slaves.
Live and die your meaningless little existences, fight like rats for your little piece of cheese.

Perhaps a little dip into parochialism there steve, maybe even provincialism. That statement is just a few steps away from waving an aussie flag in our faces and demanding we salute it. [/size]

Not sure how you get any parochialism, provicincialism or , god forbid,nationalism out of that Oldman.
Just a personal dislike, bordering on phobia, of cities.
Nothing nationalistic about it......they're all decrepit cesspits to me, which seem to bring out the worst in humanity, whilst their inhabitants invent a thing called culture to acquire by vicarious means the things which should be the birthright of healthy humans.
Damm, got to lay off the DH Lawrence.
Oldman, I'd recommend you stay up near the Tallows end of town (as opposed to Shirley St).....your then walking distance to the Pass, Tallows, the lighthouse etc etc.
You can also then bypass town if you want to go surf Suffolk, Broken, The Ox etc etc.
Hope your not planning on coming at Easter with nothing booked.

[Clif]

woohoo I live in a "decrepit cesspit"

kings cross, history, military bases, universities, coffee, art galleries, grass, bitumen, all night drinking, tea totalling, drugs, junkies, stories, graffiti, rubbish, financiers, expensive restaurants, cheap restaurants, women men, multiculturalism, alleyways, glass buildings, offices, factories, gardens, houses, plasmas, no plasmas, cockroaches - I especially like these - rats, trees, botanic gardens, harbours, fishing, scuba, surfing, football, stadiums, mums, dads, uncles, aunts, children, poverty, wealth, morals, immorality, sex, criccket, cars, bicycles, sunsets, sunrises, sharks, television audiences, rubbish, nuclear power plants, coal, solar panels, trucks, pedestrians, pubs, media, nightclubs, trains, apartments, $$$, SURF ...

LIFE

[steve shearer]

choose LIFE..
actually I thought Dino would've gobbled that one.

[Clif]

oh, and didn't Ivan Milat come from the "country" and mafia set up in Western NSW, etc etc.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009 ... 476398.htm

The "country" brings out the worst in humanity. Didn't you know? Generalisations, like Lawrence was prone to make, make me

[Clif]

hehe Dino Gobbles ...

[oldman]

Hope your not planning on coming at Easter with nothing booked.

There are still a lot of options available for booking over the googlemanet.

Coming in the second week of the school hols (NSW) which is after the QLD school hols have finished, so the northern tourists will have left town, and midweek, and short stay only.

If there is nothing there we can just keep driving to Sawtell, or central coast, or Sydney, so there are back-up plans to the back-up plans. Will only bother with Byron if things fall into place.

Thanks for the tip Steve, have stayed further down that way before.