IlovetheBeach

Shellharbour is a beautiful seaside community located between Wollongong and Kiama. The village part has turned into a mini Kiama full of shops, historical buildings that have been restored, reastaurants, parkes with well maintained gardens, lovely beaches and asthetically pleasing homes. The shopping centre and City centre is amazing too and with the renovations being done to the shopping centre with Myres comming in it will only become even better. The new housing estates like Shell Cove, Blackbutt and Flinders are really attractive areas to live in.
I am very proud to live in the Shellharbour area and I give it a 5 out of 5 stars.

Mount Druitt is a well serviced suburb with a mixture of public and private primary as well as high schools located either in or near the suburb.
There is a large shopping centre (Westfields) which has a variety of shops and is undergoing an upgrade with cafes and outdoor eating areas to be located above the shopping centre.
This is in addition to smaller pockets of shops located around the suburb (remember Mount Druitt is a very large suburb that encompasses smaller satellite suburbs like Whalan, Hebersham, Emerton).
There are bus services connecting residents residing in the geographically spread out suburban parts of the suburb as well as a train station with trains that take you direct into the CBD or west up the Blue Mountains.
The neighbouring suburb of Rooty Hill is home to West HQ, which includes the RSL Club, Sport Medicine Centre, Novotel Hotel and the brand new Sydney Coliseum Theatre.
Sydney Zoo is also located in the nearby suburb of Bungarribee.
Overall, the well serviced nature of Mount Druitt and is central location between Sydney and the Blue Mountains makes it an ideal suburb for singles, couples and individuals wishing to have easy accessibility to everything at a more affordable price in comparison to other Sydney suburbs.

I have lived in the suburb of Warilla East for the past 25 years and in that time I have seen the area change dramatically from a sleepy little seaside town back in the 1980s to a lovely piece of paradise which it has become today in 2012.

The suburb of Warilla is (like what many previous reviews have stated) divided into two sides by the Shellharbour Rd. The Eastern side which has the beach, Windang Island, many beautiful parkes, a well maintained main street with many shops which have either been built very stylishly or have been renovated and the pristine Warilla Grove is different to what the statistics say about the area. It is not riddled with Housing Commission at all! Also on the eastern side a small two-three bedroom timber cottage from the 1940s-50s on a less than 500sqm block of land in original condition with an outhouse which backed onto the ocean went on the market for about $1.125.000.000 to $1.450.000.000. This home did sell and got fixed up. Today it looks a very modern home like the rest of the lovely homes on the eastern side. The people I have found on the eastern side have been very friendly and do not look or act like social wellfare bumbs at all. I have also found people driving the likes of Auldi 4WD around the area too.

The western side of Warilla is probably more like what the statistics say about the area. I am by no means saying it is a bad area at all but it is riddled with ex housing commission fibro cottages and is much more of an affordable area. It is important not to judge Warilla by its Statistics because like other suburbs across NSW and even Australia it it has been divide into two different sides.