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Living in the Blueys 19-Sep-2010 At 9:05:46 AM climberman

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neal, it's nice, 'cept Lawson is the 'burbs, but with trees. Frankly, so is most of the mountains possibly with the exception of Bleackheath. The commute is a soul-destroyer. There are better things to do with four hours of every single bloody live-long working day.

I have lived in Glenbrook, Hazo, and the 'heath.

The 'heath is the pick, but is forkin far from Sydney. After three weeks of a commute to Burwood I moved to Leichhardt.

Glenbrook to the city is OK by train but I find Glenbrook to be mindless conservative new aussie battler small icky. YMMV.

Hazo, like Lawson and most of the mid-mountains, is just the 'burbs. Luckily the last of the last housing boom meant that capital gains allowed me to sell and move the family to the coastal Illawarra..... Hazo to Central is 1:45 on the train, plus any commute either side of that to and from your station.

Like the late '60's, the best thing to do is aim to get high and stay high ! if I had had a working life in the upper mountains I would probably still be there. Bathurst is as close to the heath as Parra but a nice country drive (ok, small bit of hyperbole). The 'heath IS lovely, and wonderfully seasonal, and has a pretty nice feel.

I dunno what you do for work but I used to get up early to beat the traffic, and leave late to beat the traffic, and be so fokking shagged from all the commuting, and devoid of time to do the life things (clean, wash, buy food, etc), that it would end up I could only do them on the weekends... when I shoulda been climbing or mtb'ing. It's a killer if you have family (sounds like you don't).