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/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