During my four-and-a-half year stay in Sydney since 2005, I spent the last four years staying in North Sydney in four different places (five, if you counted the first 2-week stay before I moved to a homestay in Cremorne, which is full of awful memories). Despite having friends who mainly reside in the City (Sydney CBD) area and being endlessly persuaded to move there, I somehow managed to stick around North Sydney. I know that NS is like a dead city at night — no foods, no supermarkets nearby (except ALDI, which by the way shuts down at 7 every night, unless you count Thursdays 9PM), no friends (I used to have a few, but they went back to Indo, the other one is on holiday for a month abroad), but I get the luxury of having hours of uninterrupted silence at night. No blaring sirens, no gibberish yellings from drunkards, other than occasional distant sounds of vehicles passing through the streets.

So, so far I have no regrets dwelling in North Sydney, especially when I get to see a view like this every day.

No regrets!