 The term is commonly used by people living in houses on the hill, in what used to be farmland, to separate themselves from the state house-dominated lower suburbs.Pine Hill Road continues to climb into rural land above the top of the suburb, connecting with Maxwellton Street, a narrow rural road which crosses a bridge over the Dunedin Northern Motorway before connecting with Patmos Avenue in the suburb of Glenleith.Pine Hill Road terminates in a junction with Cowan Road, a steep rural road which climbs to the summit of Mount Cargill, and which is the service road for the television transmitter station on its summit.