Brisbane & Gold Coast suburbs where would you recommend to live ??

[blessedatlast]

Just live near me and you will be fine!!! Lol.. Umm.. Everyone has different takes on areas.. It depends where you are used to I guess.. I *PERSONALLY* like the southern end of the GC, Paml Beach, Burleigh, Elanora.. But not sure on public transport.. I don't think public transport is fantastic here on the Gold Coast anyway!! When I didn't have a car I lived mainly in Southport.. It's central, has a big shopping centre, but a bit of a dive.. (Sorry any Southporters!!!) Northern end of the coast is not bad, but again public transport is not great.. I lived in Oxenford/Gaven (can be called either suburb depeending on where your house is ) It's fairly cheap for a 'family' size house and not a bad area, and there is a big local shopping centre.. Mudgeeraba/Robina again, reasonably priced, big shopping centre (I LOVE ROBINA TOWN CENTRE!!!) but not sure on public transport..

So many places but they are the main ones that come to mind.. Not sure about schools etc, but I know there is an awesome park in Palm Beach/Currumbin called the pirate park.. I will be interested to see what other people say about the ares of the Goldy.. Good luck, hope your DH gets oggered the job

[boomba]

How exciting hun! Good luck to your DH!

I dont know too much about the suburbs on the GC but hopefully the others can help.

As for Brisbane I will tell you where I would love to live lol....hawthorne and balmoral are beautiful suburbs...Mt gravatt and mansfield are nice too. We live in Logan and it gets a bad rap but its a really nice place to live. Cant help you with prices etc.

Good luck xx

[C~Q]

Oooh YAY I am soooooo excited!!! I'll help you with anything you need to know lol!

I've lived on the GC and Brissy and I love them both but I didn't realise till I moved to Brissy how different the people are. Now I don't want to offend anyone on the GC! But Brissy people seem a lot friendlier...not so much southern GC but central and Northern.

Brissy is awesome, I love it!! Public transport is good, schools are good and the city rocks my world! 45 mins from GC and Sunchine Coast.

Priices are so different all over. I live in Underwood which is in Logan. It's not the best area and i'm sure you oculd prob live somewhere a bit nicer lol. It's kind of the nicest area in a slightly dodgy area! I'm looking at moving Bayside at the moment which is beautiful. Check out Wakerly, thats what i'm looking at and a 3 bdr is around $350-$400 I think?

Anything you want to know just holler!!!

ETA - Hawthorne and Balmoral are awesome and my fave place in the world is there - Oxford St! Can you PM me (or say) an idea on $$$ then can let you know whereish to look

[boomba]

I think you can get bad poeple in any suburb....so maybe work out what areas you want to be looking at and then find a nice street...although you can never tell by the look of the house if people will be nice or not lol!

The bayside is nice...but it is not in brisbane its about half an hour out Wakerly is nice CQ will you change the kids school again? ..sorry for hijacking lol

[Fleur]

Argh I have to get off here & go to work!!

I will be back later, but just quickly - I agree with BAL, Southern Gold Coast is lovely (not so Gold-Coasty IMO)

Come for a visit & I will drive you around for a look

[nina21]

Hi we live in Shailer Park which is about half an hour from the Gold Coast and about the same to Brisbane it is kind of in the middle right near the highway, it is a lovely area heaps of good schools and public transport. Stay away from and I hope I am not going to offend anyone but Woodridge and parts of Beenleigh. All the best for you new venture

[luna moth]

I love both. Brissie was a huge shock to my system after living in Melbourne, but as someone said, the people are SO friendly, I have developed some amazing friend circles. in 2 years I have better friends here than I do after 20 years in Sydney.

GC public transport is fairly rubbish, but their cycling infrastructure is quite good. Lots of quiet bike paths, and easy bike lanes on lots of roads. And it's pretty flat. Sadly, there's a lot of rude drivers. Suburbs.... I couldn't recommend a particular one, I guess it would depend on the work site, I'd be inclined to go as close to there as you could afford, to reduce travelling time and increase family time?

Same with Brissie. It's huge, so you wouldn't want to be trekking all the way across town everyday. Although, Brissie peak hour traffic is hilarious - it's pretty much over by 5:30pm and is free-flowing traffic compared to Syd or Melbs. Round where I live, the roads are actually worse on the weekends

Not much help, really! But you'll love it. Promise.

[sconeonamission]

I live in Redland Bay, and Redland Bay and Mount Cotton are beautiful. Mount Cotton has new estates being built, but there are still some nice houses for sale and rent. We lived in Manly/Wynnum before here and it's a much more friendly atmosphere.

I'd have thought some of the suburbs mentioned are a bit exxy when it comes to buying, but that could just be me...

CQ - you're moving to Wakerly? Even closer to me! It's funny how we seem to live 30 mins of each other, but I never see you! You too, Boomba!

[smiles4u]

I'd be inclined to go as close to there as you could afford, to reduce travelling time and increase family time?

:yeahthat: thanks for pointing that out Audax cause that's one thing we would like to see change in our current situation as DP drives at least 1hr & 30mins to get to work on the other side of Melb CBD, and the earliest he gets home 'some' nights is about 8.30ish if his lucky but most nights 9ish or later.

Of course like anyone i would love to keep rent as cheap as possible as compared to super cheap rental prices here in Ballarat anywhere else looks so damn expensive to us, lol.

CQ reckon your spot on there as i had a good look at some rental online last night and yeh looks like most places are up near $400 which i nearly had a head attack over even though DP did warn me of the figures as he had a peek the other night, ... cause here in Ballarat you could rent a nice 3brm home for $250 no kidding. With our house here in Ballarat ' if ' we did decide to rent it out i'm guessing we could get about $250-$260 for it (??).

With this moving adventure DP & i have to take into absolute serious consideration we don't send ourselves backwards financially in the long run therefore wouldn't be worth the move.

... Thanks heaps & heaps Fleur that's such a gorgeous offer (my lil' secret squirrel )

Thanks heaps for the very honest info ladies, ... please, please keep the ideas coming the more info the better for us