Jaydee
Reviews
"Isolated and swarming with pesky biting sandflies. Be warned, this place is hicksville. Great place if you like playing the banjo and enjoy whistling."
To be truthful, the area is scenic and beautiful but that all goes out the window when the midges (biting sandflies) swarm into town and force everyone indoors. There are hundreds of properties up for sale here as residents up and leave after realizing there dream turns into a nightmare. Sorry, but it is just to much to bare and property values are declining rapidly here....My advice is to look elsewhere.
Great for
- Proximity to Fraser Island
- Views
Not great for
- Crime on the rise
- Inflated prices
- Mold, snakes, sandflies, mosquitoes
- Only people who are really enjoying living here is the local real estate agent who sees the same property turnover on average every three and a half years so he's making a killing !
- River Heads Rd is a nightmare due to increased traffic for Fraser Island visitors leaving on the barge.
- Speeding hoons visit the area at night causing havoc and making excessive noise.
The council does many things to help with the midgees and they are only a small issue when you have the view and lifestyle. We have 7 months of the year that we don't see any midgees and over the summer months only one week either side of the full moon. If you live out west you have to live with the heat, if you live up north you have to live with the humidity, down south the cold, everywhere there is something. Life is only what you make of it.
Im from Brisbane City. I LOVE River Heads!!!!!!!!