I have a friend who has just returned from another stay at BH.
He worked there on the Railway as a Signalman and he speaks highly of the place, hence this recent visit, the second in 6 months.
As for being 12 hours from the Coast, in reality its a wee bit longer because its a damn long way.
By Train, you leave Sydney on the XPT at 8am to Dubbo arriving around 1330.
After about an hour, you catch the Bus to BH that arrives there after 9pm that night.
The Bus stops once (Cobar?) for a feed, tucker is good but pricey.
The big thing you have to tolerate out there is the Summer Temperatures which makes having a functioning AC system mandatory.
It's a totally different climate to the Coast where temps can and do go down to freezing point and very low humidity which can be good or bad for you.
Oddly enough he's been contemplating buying 'something' out there mainly to live in for himself.
He's divorced, in his mid 50's working as a driver for Domino's Pizza with a locked up Superfund that might be enough to buy out there when it matures in the next year or so.
He has no personal attachments so its only himself he has to consider but he has lived and worked on the Lower Blue Mountains except when he was working away and that's going to make it hard to move away, particularly so far.
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