How many people live in bungendore

Bungendore is located km south-west of Sydney via the Hume Highway. It is 27 km north-east of Queanbeyan, 40 km from Canberra, km from Batemans Bay and m above sea-level. Captain Richard Brooks established a stock station in the district in and named one of his outstations "Bungadow".

When the village began around it was called Bungendore and this village was proclaimed in As the website explains: "Travel behind a restored Diesel or Steam heritage locomotive, in historic end-platform carriages with comfortable seating and with light refreshments available on board. Your train will climb through the scenic Molonglo Gorge, pass through three tunnels and cross two major bridges before arriving at Bungendore.

Enjoy 2 hours to browse the markets or shops in Bungendore. An Historic Walk Around Bungendore Bungendore has enough historic buildings of interest to make a short, three block walk around town not only worthwhile but genuinely historically interesting. The walk should start at the western end of Malbon Street the Kings Highway and continue up the main street until Majara Street, then head north to Gibraltar Street, walk down Gibraltar Street and back via Molonglo Street to the corner where the walk started.

Malbon Street is the main street and it is characterised by charming, historic houses. These buildings include:. The fittings including an early 19th-century mahogany bar from England, fabrics and antique furnishings are quite exquisite.

The central courtyard, into which wagons and coaches would have driven, remains and is now part of the Wintergarden. Bungendore Wood Works Gallery Located at 22 Malbon Street, the National Tourism award-winning Bungendore Wood Works Gallery is situated in an exhibition centre which features fine examples of woodworking, ceramics, paintings and studio furniture.

A particular highlight is the superb Hannah Cabinet - a reminder that true wood craftsmanship still exists in Australia. The gallery's construction used 16 tonnes of West Australian jarrah for the posts and beams, 10 tonnes of Tasmanian oak for the floors, ebonised Victorian ash for window and door frames and flooded gum panelling. The gallery specialises in exhibiting and promoting Australian-made wood craft from the country's most distinguished woodworkers and cabinet makers. Interesting mix.

Lots of families with young children. Great parks and reserves. Housing is varied. There are some lovely old properties close to town and in Old Elmslea, but these are outnumbered by some pretty horrible and dejected rambly old homes. The new areas are largely dreadful; ugly, new and stark houses in dust bowls, next door to manicured mega-mansions.

Lots of old cars, and trucks, and rubbish in people's yards. And every house seems to have one or more dogs; the majority of which never get walked. In summary it is largely a country town with a choice of housing for everyone, perfectly position between Canberra and the coast.

Meh it's overated and very expensive. I see nothing but guys looking like faggots they dye their hair blue and pink and the women are ugly and look like horses. All the families remind me of the cast of Modern Family. Depends how stable your work is and whether it involves travel around the city anyway.

It might also depend on your personality. Speaking from experience, I can say that travelling from Yass everyday to work in Barton was only 60 odd km, but it took about an hour. The Barton Highway was 30 minutes, and then another 30 minutes from Hall to Barton.

So you need to consider the times you will be travelling in and out of Canberra. Peak or not peak hour? If you are after a rural setting, Canberra has numerous suburbs that back onto reserves, mountains Mts Taylor, Ainslie and Black to a degree , and even parks. Living in a rural setting and sitting in your car for 2 hours a day, 5 days a week, is tiring. I did it for 5 years and never again.

Queanbeyan is another country and South Tuggeranong is in woop woop. I used to drive 30minutes from Tuggeranong to uni and all my friends found that way too far away, never visited and made me go to North Canberra all the time.

Having wasted a good chunk of my life in a nearly two hour commute each morning to get to Sydney CBD before moving to Canberra, 15 minutes suits me just fine! Cooma to Canberra commute is ok, takes an hour.

Only hassle is the snow tourists in winter, drivers from Royalla and the delightful bus drivers from Deanes…. There is an earlier thread somewhere on here about the pros and cons of Braidwood. Worth having a look. I see real value in commuting but anything more than 45 minutes is expensive and a drain on family life.

And outside the village itself, broadband internet is very limited. I also had two landlords in the period I lived out there who were woeful.

The first was negligent, and the second was a criminal. So that left a foul taste from the whole experience. Not to mention the extra hour in commuting time.

It might also depend on whether you are single, in a relationship and or have a family. As the social arrangements in your life will play a big role in how practical it might be to live in the satellite towns and villages. For instance, if you have young kids that go to school in say Bungendore and you and you partner both work in Canberra, you will need arrangements for their care after school that may come at a cost.

Alternately if they go to school in Canberra there may be more commuting on weekends if they are involved in school sports or to attend the inevitable birthday parties and play dates — A round trip from Bungendore to Canberra would be roughly km and you might end up doing it twice on a weekend. Keep in mind too that there are only so many roads into Canberra and the weekday traffic can get pretty heavy.

Decent sized shopping precinct all the shops I had to drive all over Canberra for are in one place ten minutes from home , restaurants, clubs, a theatre company, and a cinema.

I live in an apartment that has just about everything I need within walking distance, if not, then a short pushbike ride. I like being able to walk to work, or to a pub or out to dinner on the weekend and not worry about having an extra glass of wine because I have to drive home. Stroll down to Civic or Dickson just for a pleasant walk… I could go on….

In saying that however, some people want to live in suburbia, out in the urban sprawl with nothing nearby and need to get in a car just to pick up some milk. A commute to the City from south Tuggeranong is probably about the same as Bungendore.

In terms of prices, check out allhomes. There is also lots of native bushland in and around Canberra even walking distance from the city centre. So if you have the money, you can buy a house on a large block baking onto quite a sizeable nature reserve and walk to your job on the 10th floor of an office building.

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