Advice on living in Brisbane

Have to agree with Ekibin and Tarragindi area. Older style houses, great prospects for reno's, close to city, good schools, reasonable prices.

Cheers.......

If you think you can get to Acacia Ridge from Wynnum in 30 minutes in peak hour traffic, your dreamin!

Thanks TonyG and to everyone else who has replied so far. Sound slike the redland Shire area might be a good palce to live. It certainly looked good from what Ive found on the net and aslo looking at the area in detail on Google earth too.

Tony Im not a member so cannot send you a private message but my email address is htsbme@wn.com.au if you could send me a short note with your e-mail address, that would be great.

So just wondering those that do live in brisbane how many times a year would you run your aircon? Here in Broome weve had ours on now since the start of November. The main one goes on about lunchtime and runs until bedtime when we turn the bedroom aircons on. Its too hot to sleep otherwise and will be like that utnil April. So any improvement on that in Brisbane is a bonus.
Also what sort of min and max temps does Brisbane get? Does it get down below 12C much in winter? Im really looking forward to some colder winters than what we get in Broome.

Thanks again,

Troy.

troy35.

I also call the Redlands home.
Hard to beat with the bush and the bay.
We have A/C and only run on cooling 3 or 4 days a year. on the occasional hot night.
The A/C runs on heating (at night) a couple of weeks during winter.

From the responces you have received it would appear EO is well respresented on the bayside.

Regards

Must be cool in Broome. My aircon goes on Mid October and off late March.

Donations to help cover power bill much appreciated.

Why would you want to move to the big smoke? i thought you city folk were trying to get out.

Spade

I voted to allow you to come - it must have been those others. Sorry you didn't make it, better luck next time.

Kind regards

What ???

Didn't I send enough cash to go around . . . bastards . . .

Mattlobie,

Thanks for the reply. I will check out the suburbs you mention. Whats wrong with the new estates? Thats the sort of thing we thought might be the go. Why is the crime in these areas so high?
I wasnt sure but I assumed the suburbs around Archerfield wouldnt be any good being an industrial area. I had a close up look on Google earth and could see mainly wharehouses etc.

It's just the area in which they are situated. The suburbs south of and adjacent to the Ipswitch motorway from Archerfield all the way out to Ipswich are all reasonably dodgy. It was all quite a low socio-economic area until the new estates were establshed. The new estates themselves aren't the problem, it's the adjoining suburbs like Inala, Darra, Goodna, Wacol (we all know what's at Wacol) etc. Go for a drive around the area any saturday night and I'm sure you'll see what I mean. I'm sure the area is slowly improving as property prices rise but I wouldn't say that they're out of the woods yet.

Having said that, I lived at Collingwood Park for a year before moving north to Townsville, and it was OK. Quite a new area with reasoanble prices, and because the suburb is not a thouroughfare to anywhere else, it stays pretty quiet. It's closer to Ipswich than Brisbane but is only about a 15-20 min run to Archerfield along the Ipswich motorway. Even with nightmare peak hour traffic you'd get there in half an hour, unless there's a major accident and the motorway is closed. The main problem with that area is that you're basically living in Ipswich and it's generally about 5 degrees hotter than Brisbane in summer and about 5 degrees colder in winter.

I'm sure there are other new estates around Brisbane that are nice, but personally I'd avoid the ones to the south of the Ipswich motorway. The prices are attractive, so be wary.

matt