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VanessaS

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Hawthorne

"May as well live in a car park"

I live here for 5 years. Loved the cafe society and restaurants but getting out of the are in the mornings took up to 20 minutes as it is a peninsula with one way in and one way out.
There were always strangers on our street due to the cafe precinct.
I did bit find it particularly friendly as everyone perceived them self to be elite.
I moved 2 minutes down the road to Norman Park and halved my commute!
I still visit but glad I moved.

Great for

  • Ferry
  • Movies
  • Restuarants

Not great for

  • Visitors on the weekends
  • Lack of weekend parking options
  • Traffic into Oxford streetcanytime
  • Morning traffic into the city

Who lives here?

  • Professionals
  • Families with kids
  • Retirees
  • Tourists
  • LGBT+
  • Students
  • Trendy & Stylish
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Brookwater

"Who wants to live in whoop woop"

Too fricken far away from the City.
Urban slum. Not for me!

Not great for

  • Too far from coast
  • Too far from City
  • Very few eating out and entertaiment places around

Who lives here?

  • Families with kids
  • Retirees
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JorgeL

Mhhhh, if you are going to rate 1 star on every suburb 20kms far from the city and the coast there is approximately 160 suburbs you will have to rate, so keep it up!, plenty of wok to do!...

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arameda

Your cons are ridiculous. Too far from coast? Too far from city? That's actually the point for a lot of people.

TomB6

Vanessa - its a rather expensive urban slum at that! Do not know how many slums you have been too but my gated community in Brookwater and the whole area is far from one!

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Yeah why live so far away from the city when you can live much closer and pay the same amount of money for a much older house and it still take the same amount of time to get into the city. Yes that does sound much better :P You sound very sophisticated too so I can see how you came to the conclusion that Brookwater is a slum lol joking, it is clear that you are jealous and cant afford to live there so you are knocking it instead. Classic!

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Norman Park

"Quiet but close to everything and well equipped."

Norman Park is a breath if fresh air having previously lived in Hawthorne and taking 20 minutes just to leave the suburb peninsula each morning and battling the 'tourists' for a car park.
Now I'm in the City in 15 minutes for work or 5 on the weekend. I can still 'visit' Oxford street in 2 mins drive/ 20min walk or better yet catch a ferry to New Farm Park/ Powerhouse or drive to South Bank in under 10 mins.
Norman Park itself has several great cafés I can walk to in minutes including the trendy Jacu or Dovetail which serves the best baked eggs. Alternatively there is seafood takeaway or Thai.
Once a month I walk to the local bowls club for the Friday night markets which are licensed and get a great feed. They also serve an awesome, cheap brekky and are dog friendly. There are 2 medical centres, pharmacy, 4+ hair and beauty salons, gym, hot yoga, both camp in the park... I could go on and on.
Mostly though I prefer to sit on my own deck and watch the beautiful sunsets or fireworks and take in the awesome breezes.

Great for

  • Walk to trendy cafés, night markets and bowls club
  • Cross river ferry to New Farm Park
  • 3-5ks to Brisbane City
  • Close to city
  • Abundant parks
  • Lots of walking / cycling paths
  • Easy access to city
  • Good Views of city and South Bank

Not great for

  • None for us

Who lives here?

  • Professionals
  • Families with kids
  • Retirees
  • Hipsters
  • Trendy & Stylish
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