[Madnesscraves]

Maybe we all need to go and tell the suppressing group to stop suppressing and give us our woolworths (and Big W too)

[mel43]

Don't hold your breath waiting for Woolworths to come to Springwood. The "SOS" (Save our Springwood) people have been trying to stop big businesses coming to Springwood for years! They were cranky about Coles too, but the small supermarkets in Springwood are so damn expensive! I'd love to have a Woolies too.

Do any of you go to Foundation Day? It's on the 31st March

[mel43]

Mel43 - just had to add, wouldn't go to Hazelbrook anytime soon. Not until they finish widening the highway at least. But the company went bankrupt. :/ so who knows when it will be finished!

WHAT THEEEEE??!!! Well that sux. Lucky I don't ever need to go up that way.

Will have to check out Eurama castle one day. DD's best friend lives up that way, just before the new estate. They were trying to put in a mobile phone tower near the Ugg boot shop, but most residents thought it was too close to the school, I signed a petition to stop it from going in there.

[Madnesscraves]

WHAT THEEEEE??!!! Well that sux. Lucky I don't ever need to go up that way.

Will have to check out Eurama castle one day. DD's best friend lives up that way, just before the new estate. They were trying to put in a mobile phone tower near the Ugg boot shop, but most residents thought it was too close to the school, I signed a petition to stop it from going in there.

I didn't know bout the mobile tower near ugg boot shop, but I do recall the big fuss about the crematorium.

[lady-android]

I grew up there, in Hazelbrook actually. I went to Our Lady of the Nativity, Springwood High, and St Columbas for a short while, until I started picking fights with my RE teacher . I left when I was 16, my family moved to Newcastle.

What I loved

The bush and the fresh air. The cold weather. Glenbrook Cinema. Feral Fest (Winter Magic for all you 'toffs'). Silks Brasserie. Josophans. Purple hair being socially acceptable, and almost expected...

What I hated

The bush fires. The spiders. The fact that there was very little to do up there. The fact that there was one road in and out of the place. The fuss all the hippy do gooders made over "progress" and infrastructure in the mountains.

I was up there on the weekend, in Leura. It was cold and misty. Typical mountains weather. We went for a drive through my old neighbourhood (just off Oaklands rd in Hazo) and it's degenerated into such a dive. I was quite sad to see my old neighbourhood looking so run down and well... crappy.

[bakesgirls]

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The fuss all the hippy do gooders made over "progress" and infrastructure in the mountains.

I was up there on the weekend, in Leura. It was cold and misty. Typical mountains weather. We went for a drive through my old neighbourhood (just off Oaklands rd in Hazo) and it's degenerated into such a dive. I was quite sad to see my old neighbourhood looking so run down and well... crappy.
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Quite true about hippy do gooders.

Very true about Hazo. I used to live there too, for around 4 years when I was in high school. It wasn't too bad then. Now however, it just looks run down and mangy.

I hadn't realised that people wanted a woolies at Springwood. I have always been happy to go to Coles, it's only 10 minutes down the road from Faulconbridge- and now that they are renovating to make it bigger-even better. Mind you, I would shop at Coles anyway, even if I had to go to Penrith,

i heard not long ago that Kmart in Katoomba was closing down and would become a Big W, just as Coles was going to become a Woolworths.

[AryaStar]

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[mel43]

I'm not fussed either way really. I'd really like some other shops so I don't have to travel to Penrith whenever we need stuff, like school shoes etc. But the main reason I stay in the mountains is that my family and the vast majority of my friends live here. My parents, DHs parents, all 4 of mine and DHs 2 siblings, and all my inlaws, including grand-in-laws are here.

Off topic a bit, but DD1 is on the cover of the Gazette this week

edited to remove a stray word

Edited again - whoops, not the cover. 3rd page.

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[MakeLoveNotBacon]

I lived in Katoomba for three years and I quite disagree with your assessment Bakesgirl, unless it's changed drastically in the past four years. I loved Katoomba, would move back there in a flash if it wasn't for wanting to be near family. Ladidah, I think you would fit right in. Mind you, I am a do-gooder, vegetarian tree hugger who has indulged in drug taking in the past, so my opinion may not count for much.

[Madnesscraves]

Mel43- ill keep an eye out for it tomorrow!

MadameCatty- you could very well be right. My opinion is after all based on evidence 10 years ago. I haven't really been back since then.

I think SOS will win will because no one has set up (that I know of) a advocating group for growth of Springwood. DH was just saying he didn't think Woolies should be in springwood as it could ruin the 'charm' of the place, however, next to the Faulconbridge Chinese restaurant and pioneer motel there's a massive empty car yard there. That will be a good spot for Woolworths I think.