Hornsby is the fifth best place to live in Australia, apparently.
Hornsby is the fifth best place to live in Australia, apparently.
Hornsby is the fifth best place to live in Australia, apparently.
At least, according to a study SGS Economics and Planning:
"Sydney's Northern beaches ranks as the highest in the nation for wellbeing, with only one Queensland city making it to the top 10, the annual index revealed today.
"The Australian Capital Territory came in second due to its low gender wage gaps, climate change risks and the division of wealth."
The study assessed 518 local council areas on seven indicators:
* economy
* income and wealth
* employment, knowledge and skills
* housing
* health
* equality, community and work-life balance
* environment
The top 10 local government areas are:
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Northern Beaches (Greater Sydney)
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Australian Capital Territory
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North Sydney (Greater Sydney)
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Ku-ring-gai (Greater Sydney)
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Hornsby (Greater Sydney)
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Lane Cove (Greater Sydney)
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Mosman (Greater Sydney)
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Sutherland (Greater Sydney)
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Sydney (Greater Sydney)
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Brisbane (Greater Brisbane)
wtf? Hornsby is a shithole isn't it? At least it was when I lived in the hills ~10 years ago. you have to drive most places, the Westfield is a nightmare that ate the old arcades and small businesses, basically nothing to do except shop, crap food.
Its redeeming characteristics were being close to Eastwood and Epping for some actual stuff going on. Also trains into the city were clean.
Idk what this list is though, the northern beaches is also peak, cultureless, suburban hell.
@naevaTheRat Hornsby definitely isn't bad by any stretch — I used to live there.
But.
If you made a list of the five top places in Australia to live, Hornsby probably wouldn't be on the list either.
Just sydney in general is a bit how's it going but like compared to chatswood, paramatta, the inner west etc which are similar in terms of degree of builtuppedness Hornsby is worse in all metrics except maybe quality of schools?
you can't get around, there's no culture, no sense of community, no... anything. It's the beige blandness that appeals only to bougie people afraid of anything unexpected that think the height of living is ordering your life out of a catalogue.
@ajsadauskas @sydney It has the best banh mi by quite a margin. Maybe that's it.
@greg @sydney You mean the one near the station that does the freshly grilled pork banh mi?
Also, there's a few other good things about the place as well: https://aus.social/@ajsadauskas/112405402308405600
Having lived in Sydney and Brisbane. No. Brisbane wins. Sorry.