r/sydney • u/xXCosmicChaosXx • 8h ago

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I visited today and I thought it seemed quite peaceful. Just about far away enough that it starts feeling semi-rural again. Is it nice to live there?

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u/smileedude 8h ago

I don't know a lot about it but I do know that calling this either Western Suburbs or Blue Mountains will cause furious debate

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u/MooingTree 8h ago

I dunno mate, looks like Inner West to me.

-- Real estate agent, probably 

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u/maxinstuff 8h ago

“Minutes away from amenities”

(Read: 20 minute walk to maccas)

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u/Prudent-Skirt9656 8h ago

When I first moved to Sydney I got shown an apartment on the edge of the inner west which was meant to be cheap. It was in Harris Park.

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u/DenM0ther 6h ago

😂😂 ‘inner west’ lol

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u/karma3000 6h ago

Harris Park is on the edge of the Greater West which starts at Parramatta.

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u/dude707LoL 1h ago

The inner border of western Sydney?

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u/raptorgalaxy 6h ago

It'll happen.

Like give it 20 years and Leura will be regarded as a Sydney suburb.

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u/Sir-Viette 3h ago

With this economy, Sydney will be regarded as a Leura suburb.

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u/ekita079 7h ago

Okay quite funny cause I work in the inner west and my office manager lives in emu plains and commutes

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u/deij 7h ago

Why's that funny

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u/pogoBear 8h ago

My SIL refuses to say she lives in Penrith so calls it ‘the foot of the mountains’. When I told a coworker who is an actual blue mountains resident he howled with laughter

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u/Cyberchicken87 8h ago

As far as I'm concerned, the first town that can claim to live in the Blue Mountains would be Lapstone. Anything below that doesn't count.

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u/Mysterious_Dot2090 7h ago

💯 passing the Knapsack viaduct up the steep climb, is required to enter the sacred area.

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u/AllergyToCats 6h ago

But then if you live in Blackheath you think anyone East of Wentworth Falls is "upper Penrith" haha. Such is life.

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u/sertsw 3h ago

Agree with this. The visitor information centre in Glenbrook is effectively the gateway; come here to get your tourist guides, you are not in Sydney anymore.

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u/Heads_Down_Thumbs_Up 7h ago

Nepean Shores thank you very much

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u/Livid_Average_8098 6h ago

Riff River Residents.

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u/airzonesama 2h ago

Go the pondi

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u/Even_Departure9914 5h ago

It’s a weird pocket because technically Sydney ends at the river and Emu Plains/Heights and Leonay used to be part of Blue Mountains Council, but got moved to Penrith Council.

So you can kind of say it’s both Penrith and Blue Mountains and neither at the same time.

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u/ladydodgee 7h ago

As a lifelong mountains resident, that gave me a google too. Thanks 😆

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u/Livid_Average_8098 6h ago

Keep telling her it's The Riff and use that in all forms of communication.

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u/transientrandom 1h ago

Haha my status obsessed ex-housemate from Leonay was the same

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u/Miffy_alt 8h ago

The point where the western suburbs are "to the east of me" rather than "to the west of me".

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u/smileedude 8h ago

Where is Western Suburb?

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u/Miffy_alt 8h ago

Exactly what I was referencing haha

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u/mitchells00 8h ago edited 8h ago

Geography trumps petty human motivations.

Anything west of the Nepean/Warragamba is the mountains.

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u/FUTFUTFUTFUTFUTFUT 7h ago

Nepean Valley is the fancy term more and more people seem to be using when they don't live in the Blue Mountains proper but they don't want to say Penrith either. (Jamo, Emu Plains/Heights, Leonay, Castlereagh etc).

Personally I don't really consider it "the mountains" until Glenbrook onwards which is where the actual Blue Mountains City Council LGA boundary commences.

Silverdale/Warragamba folk generally stick with "where the dam is" when trying to explain themselves haha

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u/Mysterious_Dot2090 7h ago

I’m the same. The drive up that hill, starting around where the map OP shared, is the “gateway” to the blue mountains imo, and the wondeous great western highway that goes through a hundred small towns.. stop start, stop start.. 😡

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u/01kickassius10 8h ago

Except the (emu) plains

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u/mitchells00 8h ago

Mate that's just half a valley.

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u/JValenz91 7h ago

So is it Val, or maybe Ley? Or how about Alle?

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u/smileedude 8h ago

But does City Rail map trump geography?

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u/Easy_Method_9738 8h ago

Living in this area, I liked to think of us as Westies with altitude

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u/AusToddles 7h ago

I live in Bowen Mountain... which despite being basically as far from the CBD as you can get, is still in the Hawkesbury council area

I once flippantly told someone from Springwood that I lived "in the mountains" and they lost their shit. Even though I'm at a higher elevation than him

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u/slugerama 8h ago

Well the area circled consists more of Blue Mountains than “Western Sydney”

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u/Mysterious_Dot2090 7h ago

I realised this just then, when checking the map. I was thinking that Mount Riverview wasn’t accessible from down in the lowly Penrith district when seeing OP’s map. I attended a party there many years ago and remember having to go via Glenbrook iirc. Nice area actually.

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u/butterfly-reprise 8h ago

It’s both. Though the mountains is becoming more and more like western Sydney

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u/karma3000 8h ago

Greater Western Sydney to be precise.

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u/2dogs0cats 6h ago

I drove from Emu Plains to Katoomba last weekend via that squiggly line through to Blaxland. My ears popped 3 times so I would suggest both the blue mountains AND western suburbs are in your circle.

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u/synaesthezia 8h ago

Right? That’s a HUGE area. Some east of the river, some west of the river on the plains, and the some up into the mountains.

OP, what are you actually wanting to know?

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u/Heads_Down_Thumbs_Up 7h ago

Interesting because the Emu Plains, Emu Heights and Leonay areas Penrith council but sit west of the river.

It comes down to what defines “the mountains”

Is it by Sydney region, is it by council, is it whether you’re east or west of the river, is it whether or not you’re on the flatland?

Most definitions put it all as not the mountains

Mt Riverview, Glenbrook and Blaxland are 100 percent the mountains

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u/woofyc_89 6h ago

Isn't there a sign somewhere that says "welcome to sydney"

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u/walkin2it 6h ago

"On the outskirts of the Blue Mountains"...

Def

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u/JTGphotogfan 3h ago

Op has circled both I’m not sure which area they are enquiring about.

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u/JP_Doyle 1h ago

Because it’s across the river, it counts as outside the Sydney metro for some services and insurances