St Lucia, QLD 4067

Wonderful fantastic just watch out for some rude and unprofessional real estate/people if here for longrun there is a great variety of people but definitely recommend to catch an Uber around here or in city if can at times as it is safer especially if you have kids driving around here and Queensland can be quite dangerous but I guess it depends on how it is with your children and reason why recommending this because the bus service is ok but the drivers at the moment and not very well trained.

There is a numerous amount of things you can entertain yourself with in St Lucia. Including Hawken Drive which has the local IGA and serves a diverse range of restaurants, from Persian to Thai to Italian there is a great selection of restaurants to choose from all on one little strip! Hawken drive is with-in walking distance from anywhere in St Lucia, and if you don't want to walk the numerous amount of bus services will get to you there in no time! There is also the well-known St Lucia Golf Club which has recently opened a Mini-golf course which is great fun, the food is also amazing. There is also the Famous University of Queensland which contains Tennis Courts, Olympic swimming pools, Running courses, Many clubs for people of any age to join and many more. These facilities are also available to anyone but beware a small fee is involved. If you want to go shopping there is the ginormous Indooroopilly shopping centre and Toowong Village that are a short 5-minute drive or bus ride away. The CBD and South-bank are also a short 10-minute bus ride, city cat or train ride away. The proximity to the city also means uber rides are only a cheap $10-$15. If you want the exercise you can even walk! There is a lovely pathway built right along the river which takes you straight into the city! The neighbours are also lovely! Most of them are either elderly or families and everyone is always respectful. With UQ being the most prestigious universities, if you do live next to a student home the students are most-likely well behaved. Although there is always the odd student neighbours who do throw big parties. Most of the time though they are renting and are gone within 6-12 months! St Lucia is also a very safe suburb. With a council patrol car always driving around you can always have a piece of mind.

St Lucia is one of the most prestigious suburbs in Brisbane due to it's close proximity to the Brisbane CBD, it's peninsular-like (no-through traffic) position, vast expanse of prime riverfront land and the world renowned University of Queensland and associated facilities. St Lucia is one of the oldest and most well established suburbs in Brisbane.

Popular with university students, retirees, young professionals and families. St Lucia weathers the real estate cycles better than most and is always popular with investors due to the strong rental demand.

Brisbane City Council showers St Lucia with regular bus and citycat services. The closest rail station is at nearby Toowong.

St Lucia has good access to the best schools, Ironside state school, St Peters, Brisbane boys college. Having the the Uni campus on your door step is like having a country club on your door step, Olympic pool, tennis courts, and many sports ovals, restaurants, cinemas, libraries and book shops, a first class St Lucia golf course and restaurant, Indooroopilly Golf Club. St Lucia is well serviced by public transport, including City Cat, regular buses,green bridge, Toowong rail station near by. There are many walking and bike tracks around the golf courses and UQ. The Village in Hawken Drive is full of different eateries as well as one of the best IGA supermarkets. The huge, soon to be extended Indooroopilly shopping town is near by with everything from department stores to cinemas. St Lucia is less than 5km from the CBD and 1.5km from the Wesley Hospital. St Lucia has it all so close to the city.

I've owned and lived in properties in Sherwood, Chapel Hill, Brookfield, Toowong and St Lucia and without a doubt St Lucia beats the rest by far. There is plenty of public transport - buses, city cats and trains. It is close to Toowong Village and Indooroopilly Shopping Centre. There are small local shopping centres at St Lucia Village and at Gailey Road fiveways. You would be within walking distance of one of them whereever you lived in St Lucia. There are lots of cheap restaurants down the university end of St Lucia. Trendy eating areas like Rosalie, Paddington etc are within 10mins. There are excellent private and state schools in the area or in the next suburb. The area is a pleasant mix of older Queenslander style homes, contempory houses and townhouses and high rise units. Yes there are university students in the area - 'cause there's a university. I guess if you lived in one of 6 pack type unit blocks there could be issues but that could happen anywhere. It would be unwise to buy in the flood prone areas of St Lucia but they are cheap now and you do get a river view. I suggest sticking to the ridges along Hawken Dve and Carmody Road.

St. Lucia is quite unique, it's almost as if it's two suburbs in one.

To the southern (higher) side, there's Ironside State School, some churches, parks, small shopping areas and lots of ~$1 million houses. On the northern (lower/flooded) side, there are some shops, and a lot of the area is made up of apartments and small houses rented by University students, along with a few more expensive riverfront properties.

Unless you live on Sir Fred Schonell Drive, even St Lucia's 'main' roads are not that busy at all. While the shops are 'non-existent', the frequently running 402/411/412/427/428/432 service the suburb very well, meaning you can be at major shopping centres within 5 minutes. These buses also connect you with rail services. City is within 10-15 minutes drive as well.

It's very much a 'luck of the draw' with neighbours, you may find very friendly neighbours or the dreaded Uni students into hard rock music. Parking is a pain, with restrictions everywhere - although these disappear getting further from the University.

St. Lucia is located on the Brisbane river and features the University of Queensland. Very visually appealing suburb with majority of students living in the area.

St Lucia is full of students who think nothing of screaming and playing loud stereos all night

.. but it languishes in the rankings below Goodna and Inala. Sorry, to have to be the Simon Cowell of this website.