johnw28

Depending a bit on where you live in Pennant Hills (as it straddles a couple of quite different bushland systems) ... but it's quite possible to have a little chat to the wallabies and echidnas in pristine bushland near your place in the morning before taking a straightforward commute by train to the city. Not many places in Sydney where you can do that! You can even walk through the bush to Newcastle on the Great North Walk and the leg from Pennant Hills to Hornsby through national park is quite delightful, with tall forests, gullies, creeks and waterholes, not to mention the beautiful wildflowers. It's a very peaceful and safe suburb and there's a strong, friendly community spirit. It's in the garden belt of northern Sydney and being quite a bit higher than most areas (as the name suggests) it has gorgeous displays of autumn and spring colours across the suburb and almost a crisp mountain air feel in mid winter. Yes, the shopping centre is tired and needs an update but it more than covers everyday needs and there are large shopping precincts not so far away - a choice between Castle Hill, Macquarie Centre and Hornsby. Pennant Hills Road certainly is an ongoing nuisance but should improve markedly in 2019 with the new tunnel connecting M2 to M1, supposedly taking 5000 trucks per day off Pennant Hills Road, so you imagine this will soon factor into housing prices. Another big advantage of Pennant Hills is that it is not too far from the M1 entrance so it's very convenient for holidays and long weekend escapes up the coast, while also being convenient to M2/M7 to the city or bypassing Sydney altogether heading south. Out of peak traffic it is quite possible to be at the airport in around 30 minutes - I've done it more than once. All in all Pennant Hills is a very pleasant, peaceful and convenient place to live.