Curra, QLD 4570

4.5(4 reviews)

Ranked 5th best suburb by locals in Wide Bay-Burnett Region, QLD

Great for

  • Clean & green
  • Cost of living
  • Neighbourly spirit
  • Parks and recreation
  • Peace and quiet

Not great for

  • Nightlife
  • Public transport
  • Shopping options

Who lives here?

  • Families With Kids
  • Professionals
  • Singles
  • Retirees

Reviews of Curra, QLD

2nd March 2024

"Great neighbourhood - Where everyone is friendly""

We recently moved to Curra after monitoring the area for some time before making the purchase. If you're considering retiring or seeking a peaceful lifestyle, Curra could be the perfect place for you. Over the past decade, the neighborhood has undergone a significant transformation, with a diverse range of people buying properties and the old stereotypes disappearing. The area has become more upmarket, with stunning homes now present. If you're searching for a home in a less-developed area, Curra could be your ideal location.

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"A great place to live thats going in the right direction"

We moved to Curra in March 2018 after building our new home in the fantastic St Andrews estate on Purcell/Curra estate road about 12mins north of Gympie. We moved up from Maroochydore which is a great place but not for us to live we like the country side for our young family and here we have a 7000sq flat block plenty of room for our future big shed and caravan and I'm even putting in a small chipping green up the back for practice!
We are now used go seeing kangaroos in our backyard most of the time and rabbits too. Its nice to come home from work and its just quite just the wind in the trees ( unless someone's mowing lol ). There is a servo and shop/ motel and country club plus a new community center and children's playground.
Just up the road at Chatsworth is a wonderful little primary school. A new shopping center with childcare center being built across the road is going ahead also. I say get in now while there are pretty cheap land price's.

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"Great place to live"

Moved here about 6 months ago, very relaxed place friendly people everywhere. Its about 10 mins to Gympie which has all the shops you need, and there's a decent service station on the corner with a pharmacy, country club, laundromat. The new highway extension is due to be started shortly which comes out at curra. There is also a new shopping centre planned for opposite the puma service station due to be started at Christmas time 2018. Highly recommend the area. Theres also gunalda 5 mins up the road which has great steak, a post office, really good general store, 2nd hand dealer, bakery, real estate.

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"An excellent rural residential area no more than 12 minutes to Gympie"

Curra is a wonderful place to bring up your young family, live as a couple or spend your retirement. Housing in this area is primarily on an acerage and is as cheap as chips!. I have watched Curra grow considerably over the past 17 years that I have been a resident. Despite the amazing popularity of this area I still don't feel at all crowded. The whole area, being very close to Gympie, reminds me of the relationship that Narellan had with Liverpool in NSW 30 years ago. Today Narellan is a very large sattelite city in its own right supporting a growing population yet maintaining the rural atmosphere. I predict that Curra will develop in a similar fashion. The spaces between Curra and Gympie will fill up and the services will spread out to here.
As far as shops go, at present their is a fast food kitchen and a well stocked convenience store incorporated with the local service station, a fresh fruit and vegetable store and a Country Club located on the corner of the Bruce Highway. Shopping in Gympie provides any other goods or services you might require. There are plenty of variety of shops in Gympie with a choice of grocery stores to suit any budget. The local hospital in Gympie has recently been upgraded and there are several Doctor's offices and other Health care facilities, including aged care, in town.
The distance from Gympie to Curra is about 17 kms which is a quick, uninterupted drive down the Bruce Highway...no traffic lights or other traffic hold-ups that you might experience in the capital cities. The countryside in between the two centres is lush and green reminding me of pictures of the English countryside! This is sub-tropical Queensland we're talking about you realise! The summer is long and the winter is cool but brief. The rainfall in this area is orographic, affected by the updraft from the coast so, unless it is a time of very severe drought, the area receives plenty of rain, keeping gardens lush and water tanks full.
The school bus is a great convenience at the front gate every school day and a small local bus service operates for your convenience. Longer bus journeys can be arranged with the likes of Polleys and Greyhound picking up passengers from the local Matilda Service Station.
Curra has quite a few tradesmen in residence who enjoy the rural space and tranquility often making it unnecessary to call out people from town.
You can keep your pet pony here. There are many beautiful birds in this area and if you have a dam there will be ducks and Ibis among them. There are bountiful varieties of native animals too. The Kangaroos are my natural lawn mowers! I love to watch the birds and animals as they enjoy my block of land.
In amongst the native black wattle which springs up to protect this land whenever there is a broken space, you will find magnificent iron bark, tallowood, blood wood, mahogony, silky oak, stringy bark, bottlebrush and blue gum, just to name a few species. On the ground you will find pretty patches of alyssium, native ferns and orchids interspersed with climbing native wysteria or the fuzzy native passionfruits. Even if you don't garden at all you will have some lovely plants surrounding your home.
If you want peace and quiet, your own piece of paradise, a safe place to rear children and a private lifestyle, Curra is a fantastic choice and chances are you can actually afford to buy a nice home here.
Come and check it out. You'll be surprised.

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