The short version
Greenhills has the bones of a family suburb and the commercial gravity of a regional shopping centre. The mall and market roads are busy, while North Greenhills, Greenhills West, Greenhills East and Little Baguio offer more domestic streets. It suits families and shoppers who want established schools and services, less so anyone expecting rail at the gate.
Shopping is not the whole story
Greenhills Shopping Center grew as the centrepiece of a planned community with schools, churches and a suburban shopping complex. Its long-established retail role still shapes the district. Unimart, the market areas and surrounding malls are useful for daily life, but the roads around them are not a quiet extension of the residential streets.
The school landscape is a serious reason families look here. La Salle Green Hills describes a campus on Ortigas Avenue that began accepting pupils in 1959, while Immaculate Conception Academy is in Greenhills on Grant Street. That does not guarantee a simple drop-off. School gates, Ortigas Avenue and shopping traffic need to be treated as separate logistical problems.
Getting around
There is no operational rail station inside the area record. Road and bus links are the practical network, with MRT-3 and LRT-2 available in neighbouring districts. For a household commuting in different directions, that missing rail stop matters more than the apparent centrality.
Would I live here?
Yes, for a family that values established institutions and can organise transport. I would choose a residential subdivision rather than a unit directly over the shopping roads, and I would visit at school dismissal and weekend shopping time. Greenhills is settled, useful and imperfectly connected, which is a better description than calling it simply convenient.