I live in Sutera Damansara which is in Damansara Damai. Basically this development is near the reserve forest hillside but not slope, it is normal ground but little higher (Fantastic view for those facing the hill, nearby is Armanee so can compare a little with armanee. Got KLCC or forest hill view!). Actually not that bad in term of view.

However as most knew Prima Damansara and Damansara Damai were first developed for lower cost housing by MK Land. Many were people settled here during the Mutiara Damansara & Damansara Perdana boom. So this area were first started mainly with Bumis, Orang Asli, and Malays. You will see flats & shoplots when you drive to Sungai Buloh and so this is first phase 10++ years ago.

Then there is terrace housing added in Damansara Damai bordering sungai buloh (You will see them when at NKVE). So the demographics started mixing a bit. Also Armanee started the first high end condo here (Armanee is actually a good buy at subsale in my opinion with great KLCC/ForestHill view and only 300++K!! for startup family). This is phase 2 i think.

Lately since 3 years ago you see Sutera Damansara started and pushed this area to higher end now due to Sierramas and Valencia effect. I surveyed the sites many times and after many careful analysis I decided to move in here to Sutera as I see long term potential. I made the right call with my house appreciated almost 50%. Right now this area booming towards the higher end with Sutera Square and Sphere Damansara will add in the commercial aspect to turn this area vibrant. The beautiful Atrium office tower + mall is finishing at touch up stage and the new Sri Damansara Hotel also added "ongness" in this area. Not to forget ONE Damansara condo also top up already. There is also EconSave Hypermarket as well.

The major cons as you all knew will be the not so good looking Flats and shoplots started during the phase 1 era. So hence the not so good demographics with lots of immigrants, Indons, negros, etc. For me not too worry since all new developments came with gated security and so on. Also to mention here is a Al-Muhtadin mosque at the hill top of Damansara Damai. Due to the hilltop location, the azan can reach really far. And surrounding area is all under the blessing. So for high rise building like Armanee and Sphere, you will receive strong blessing as well. Lately due to the political, religion and racial nonsense by BN, they double boosted the volume so as of lately also double blessing. Once you get used to it it's really nothing, this is Malaysia so you just have to suck it up.

With greater KL plan coming, Sungai buloh vicinity will receive tremendous boost all the way to the Subang airport. Also the new MRT and KTM is 5-10mins distance just nearby. So don't discount this area prematurely. Late comers means higher price, so judge intelligently. Muslim will find this place quite ideal to stay. In my opinion this is a fantastic area for sub-urban. My Sutera neighborhood consist of mixed demo although mainly Chinese and all are middle upper. The new launch like Semi-D, The Vale, Superlink are all cater for millionaires.

This post has been edited by yeehs18: Jul 10 2012, 04:05 PM