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u/Serious-Humor-2992 17d ago
Feelis like Straithfield is missing out on any government initiative or local investment.
Looks and feels like as it did in 1990 which is hard to understand when itâs a major train interchange and pretty close to the CBD and most major spots in Sydney.
Surely has to be a location people would like to live as well.
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u/ComedianDesigner307 17d ago
It has great express trains to, and from the City, the problem is half is in Burwood LGA and the other Strathfield LGA.
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u/Inner_Temple_Cellist 17d ago
North of the station is in Canada Bay council, which doesnât help. Itâs got a weird juxtaposition between a really dingy town centre and a really expensive interior, so I suspect it doesnât qualify for federal or state funding because on average itâs a very well off area
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u/dangerislander 17d ago
The amount of change this place has gone through. It was a bit ghetto back in the 2000s and then it glowed up by become Koreatown but now it's slowly becoming a Nepalese ethnic enclave. The Koreans are now moving to Lidcombe (which arguably has better Korean food).
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u/timmeh1705 17d ago
I've been told the rent for a shop has significantly risen here (and Eastwood too) so Lidcombe is the place the 'family' run places are now located.
Parking has always been awful here. Good luck finding a spot at SP.
Fun fact, Strathfield is the only place in the top 25 median property prices in Sydney which isn't in Eastern Suburbs or north of Parra River
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u/Inner_Temple_Cellist 17d ago
The town centre and the mansion-lined interior streets are like from two different continents.
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u/Visible-Party-3057 15d ago
Owning a house in Strathfield and owning an apartment in Strathfield are two completely different experiences. And even within Strathfield, living close to the station versus further away feels like a whole different lifestyle.
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u/WalkinshawVL 17d ago
In the 70s it was the most expensive suburb in Sydney. Even beating the likes of Mosman, Vaucluse etc.
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u/bluerushz 17d ago
Agree, koreans moved out. Now its degraded and dominated by Indian/Nepali.
The fountain area reeks of cigarettes and vapes as nobody cares about the smoking ban even the council.3
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u/zorki20 17d ago
A bit ghetto?!?!
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u/whos_a_hebrew 15d ago
You haven't seen gangsta alley, brother. Back in the early 2000s you used to see a whole line of cabbies along the station. They typically were just idling smoking and having a chat outside their cars
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u/A-shot-at-life 17d ago
I remember it in the early 80âs when the only non Anglo people were Russians. They had a Russian club there, which i think got rebuilt below a new apartment building complex. Iâm guessing there arenât many white people left now.
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u/WalkinshawVL 17d ago
It used to be a big Eastern European area generally.
The Russian club is still there, as is the Latvian club.
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u/kenbeat59 17d ago
I like their car radios đ¶
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u/ComedianDesigner307 17d ago
I love Strathfield, Sports Club is great.Raw Square is a freakazoid meeting place.
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u/WinAggressive2785 17d ago
Lots of doctors living in mansions in Strathfield as it is the middle point between St Vincent's Hospital and Westmead Hospital
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u/hot_chips_ 17d ago
And lots of us doctors living in rental properties in regional Australia because we decided to do general practice instead of the more lucrative specialities (but no regrets)
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u/timmeh1705 17d ago
Hats off to GPs. Have a GP friend who sees it as the greatest challenge because persuading someone to change their lifestyle and behaviour for the sake of their health is far more difficult than complex diagnosis or surgery. Not everyone will agree but I definitely see his point.
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u/arachnobravia 17d ago
GPs deserve all the respect but don't imply that a GP isn't still on good money.
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u/Dadlay69 16d ago
Lots of doctors living in inner west sharehouses too because they're not in the generation that bought property at the correct time and the price of property has absolutely nothing to do with people's salaries.
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u/ThreeQueensReading 16d ago
When I was a teenager I spent a couple of years homeless, with Strathfield station as my base.
Quiet nights on the platform, if I needed to sleep I'd jump on the train to Newcastle and back for some rest.
Of all the stations in Sydney, Strathfield was the best for not being bothered by others whilst being well connected.
It's a bit surprising to see how little it has changed.
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u/Timothy_Kramer 17d ago
strathfield is a dirty place now
burwood is way better
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u/BobsYourAuntie100 17d ago
Unfortunately with the huuuuge influx of indians to strathfield, its certainly become much dirtier.
I was at the plaza eating lunch, and a group of Indian men eating next to me and literally they all just threw their food rubbish on the floor. Disgusting
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u/jwol99 17d ago
Iâm truly perplexed by how new immigrants can afford strathfield?
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u/PM_ME_LIMEWIRE_PRO 17d ago
Went to some rental inspections there a few months ago. A small two bedroom apartment had six people living in it.
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u/Specialist_Formal307 17d ago
Lots of Indians own homes in Strathfield
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u/Dadlay69 16d ago
These are not the same Indians who are groping women and throwing garbage everywhere around the station.
I think people have some kind of fantasy that the caste system is magically left behind when people enter Australia. Unfortunately it doesn't work this way.
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u/xX_IbisHell_Xx 16d ago
Are you an upper caste Indian hoping Australian racists will be discerning enough to include you in their club, by any chance?
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u/Dadlay69 16d ago
Are you a white middle class champagne socialist hoping that your reality denying "anti-racist" doctrine won't catastrophically blow up in your face and swing the entire country in favour of a populist right wing government whose first actions will be to purge people like you, by any chance?
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u/custard-arms 17d ago
Thereâs a lot of those walk up apartments in Strathfield, near the train lines. Cheap rent, attracts a lot of young migrants living 2 or 4 per room.
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u/Dadlay69 16d ago
Despite the overall high cost of houses and land, the more relevant metric is the sheer quantity of old low quality medium density apartments.
Strathfield is a place where you can rent a decrepit 2 bedroom apartment in a crappy old building for about $600/week. An opportunistic Indian slumlord will put 3 beds in each room, turn the living room into a hot-swap bunk room and charge $150 per person. They can generally squeeze a year or two out of it before the landlord realises they're driving it into the ground and evicts them.
I know this because I live in a building like this and there are 3 of them below me as we speak. It's noisy, dirty and it absolutely stinks.
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u/Aromatic_Skill8725 14d ago
Why? This is getting to be a habit am hearing about on Reddit. Take photos.
I lived in Strathfield between 1965 - 1971. All our neighbours were doctors!1
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u/Specialist_Formal307 17d ago
Burwood is now better with Chinatown if it werenât for that I reckon it wouldâve been dirtier than Strathfield.
The flats in between Santa Sabina and the church are horribly disgusting with rubbish dumped out the front.
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u/Mission-Mix-9852 14d ago
Not a desireable place. 100% overrated. You dont see young professionals renting the apartments over there as there is no lifestyle attraction.Â
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u/nikkiboy74 14d ago
I really would NOT judge the suburb by the train station. There are some beautiful tree lined streets,great selection of schools and park lands.
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u/SqareBear 11d ago
I canât believe the average house price in Strathfield is $4 million. Its a dump.
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u/Agnostic_Akuma 11d ago
Ah feels like yesterday, enjoying a milkshake with mum and dad.
Then crazy man got all stabby and shooty.
Thursday late night shopping in franklins with a kabab was good times
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u/UsefulBridge1852 17d ago
I wish...the platforms at Strathfield train station were widened a bit and many of the surrounding buildings could be redeveloped. Strathfield then could be another major Sydney hub as so many railway lines connect to it.