A bit of advice on areas of Sydney needed.

Sammag

I mentioned in another thread on here that I'm currently in Melbourne and looking to move to Sydney,
I've been here 3 years with my Aussie husband, love it, fab city, great weather (if you're Irish) but in saying all that - we fancy a change.
My husband is targeting jobs first and fingers crossed something positive will pop up next week, he's at 4th round/final interview stages at the mo.

Anyway, we have our heart set on living in Balmain or Birchgrove (but on the closer to Darling Street side), if we can't rent a decent place there,
I've been looking at the following other areas:

Rozelle - Balmain end
Camperdown
Annandale
Dulwich Hill - I thought this area was a bit deadsville (maybe it's the name) but a mate lives here and there's a decent little village
Leichhardt - Not 100% sold on this area
Paddington - I think this is going to be way too expensive as all the houses I put my eye on turn out to be $1750+ p.w. :mad:

We have a house here which we'll need to rent out and cover the balance of the mortgage costs so figured we really don't want to be spending more than say $700/750 per week on rent in Sydney, anymore and it's stupid - I already hate to be going from owner living back to renting but has to be done for the first while anyway..
We like to rent a 2 bed house - older in style (aka one of the f*cking-gorgeous-ones-you-see-everywhere-in-Balmain style) as opposed to a newer apartment or townhouse style job.

Anyway - I know Sydney somewhat but not a lot - can any Sydney-heads on here offer any other good ideas for places I should add to my domain.com.au/rentals search?
Looking for ideas on areas which are good on transport, village feel - or at least have a few decent shops and a pub/town Hotel etc.
Husband would be based in the city and me - more than likely, if my cunning plan comes to fruition - would be in Surry Hills

Living areas which are a no-no are:
Bondi
Glebe I actually thought I'd like this place as I love Fitzroy/Brunswick St here (people told me they were similar), but I wasn't too thrilled with the area, dunno why, but it just did nothing for me.

Any advice much appreciated
Cheers

P.S. If anyone knows of someone renting a 1 or 2 bed kick-ass house in Balmain - can you let me know? Ta!

hussey

Rozelle is good spot - very close to balmain.
Camperdown and Annadale are okay spots
I don't don't really know why you wouldn't pick glebe above these areas, they are all pretty similar
Leichardt is very close to these again - very italian and a decent spot.

Other areas are Ultimo and Forest Lodge, close walk to city (10mins to Darling harbour)

Dulwich hill is suburbs rather than a happening town, not saying anything wrong with that, but depends on what you are looking for

I live in Newtown, and there are places around there that are fantastic, I live more St peters end, so away from hussle and bussle of king st, close to transport. -

If you like balmain then go for Rozelle. I wouldn't blame you at all

Sammag

Cheers for that. I hadn't heard of Forest Lodge, I'll check that out.
I also have to check out Newtown for houses as I loved that area when I was there last time. My mate lived in Camperdown and often brought us to Newtown for drinks and food etc.

Yeah, I'm not really sure why I disliked Glebe..
There's nothing wrong with it at all per-say, I saw there was a nice enough strip of shops and bars etc.. I think possibly because I just had it hyped up too much in my head to be very similar to an area which it wasn't.
Everyone used to say to me; "Ooh if you like Brunswick St and it's feel, you'd like Glebe in Sydney as it's probably the closest match up there". I was just a bit let down then when I saw it.
My husband felt the same. We drove through and sort of said 'Hmmm is that it?!' *damn those bas*ards who talked it up too much!*
Maybe it still feels a bit 'studenty', I like going to live music gigs and more laid back bars and all that, but I dunno, it just came across a bit 'up and coming place to be in 5 years time' etc... I could be totally off the ball here.

That Balmain calling is still there, I love that place but I know we're going to land up there and not be able to find anywhere decent to live for less than $750

hussey

A friend of mine rents in Balmain a 2 bed apartment for 450pw inc a gym
(Balmain shores)

You will be able to find something around that price I'm sure

mandrake04

Sammag wrote: »

Cheers for that. I hadn't heard of Forest Lodge, I'll check that out.
I also have to check out Newtown for houses as I loved that area when I was there last time. My mate lived in Camperdown and often brought us to Newtown for drinks and food etc.

Yeah, I'm not really sure why I disliked Glebe..
There's nothing wrong with it at all per-say, I saw there was a nice enough strip of shops and bars etc.. I think possibly because I just had it hyped up too much in my head to be very similar to an area which it wasn't.
Everyone used to say to me; "Ooh if you like Brunswick St and it's feel, you'd like Glebe in Sydney as it's probably the closest match up there". I was just a bit let down then when I saw it.
My husband felt the same. We drove through and sort of said 'Hmmm is that it?!' *damn those bas*ards who talked it up too much!*
Maybe it still feels a bit 'studenty', I like going to live music gigs and more laid back bars and all that, but I dunno, it just came across a bit 'up and coming place to be in 5 years time' etc... I could be totally off the ball here.

That Balmain calling is still there, I love that place but I know we're going to land up there and not be able to find anywhere decent to live for less than $750

Forest Lodge is between the Parramatta road and Glebe, its more or less the same area camperdown/Harold park.

Balmain/Rozelle is good but expensive .......Drumoyne is an option.

Croydon and Burwood is very popular with Irish people.... I lived there for about 3 years my .......house was a large 3 BR townhouse (2003) with Double garrage and Shared pool. $580