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Hurstville

"At the crossroads of suburban and cosmopolitan life"

Hurstville is really a very pleasant suburb to reside within, along with its surroundings. The city centre is, without a doubt, very densely populated and packed with shops that occasionally seem somewhat out of place, but I don’t think we should judge the suburb solely on the city centre. The opinions on homely.com are, after all, meant to express the liveability of a place, and that is not confined to matters only relating to Hurstville’s city centre.
I have been accustomed to the statement that “traffic is an atrocity.” Is it now? If you do reside physically in the suburb of Hurstville, it would thus be more sagacious to travel to shopping precincts, coaching colleges, restaurants, etc. by foot, no? And if the residents fail to do so, why must it tarnish Hurstville’s liveability index so austerely? If one does not reside physically in Hurstville, but somewhere afar, then they must employ some intuition to circumvent the traffic overflow. Yes, there do tend to be traffic jams on the Avenue and Forest Road, but use a bit of cognitive power, go around some of the lesser known streets and weave your way around there to access the main shopping precincts. Or alternatively, because I know you all complain about the one-way street designs, park your car on a residential street nearby your desired location in the city centre (parking isn’t merely confined within the city centre!). Solved, and in an era where climate change is becoming persistent, one may as well walk.
The public transit system in Hurstville is virtually second to none in all of Greater Sydney. For a suburb that gets deprecated so frequently, one would expect its train station to be a horrific mess - at least as some individuals’ wishful thinking goes. No, four functional platforms under a bustling Hurstville Central, where you can access all necessary resources, should be more than adequate. What? As far as wishful thinking is concerned, you would want something more opulent and photogenic?! Outrageous.
The walkability index in Hurstville city centre is undoubtedly high. There are a plethora of amenities, from educational coaching centres to specialty stores to restaurants that can make your mouth water. Pretty superb how this is all jam packed into tiny portion of Hurstville (yes, it gets overcrowded, but give some credit to the town developers; think about the overarching intentions.

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katc3

Traffic is an atrocity. If you are trying to transport a moderate amount of shopping/groceries, it is impracticable to do it by foot, no?
A single large item purchase, for example half the items in Kmart are automatically unfeasible to purchase. Unless you are just buying small items in passing, going shopping by foot is completely out of the question.

quantumlord
quantumlord

@katc3 Hurstville's traffic is not as atrocious as some people make it out to be! Although there's a certain degree to which it is, it's nowhere near peak hour for somewhere like King Georges Road A3 or Parramatta Road.

davejohnston1
davejohnston1

katc3, if you think Hurstville's traffic is atrocious, try driving and parking in Campsie or Burwood and come back and tell me lol

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