fhbOxley

We bought our first home in Oxley just under a year ago. In a short-time, we got to know a large number of people on our street, just because everyone is so friendly and helpful! The floods really showed how strong Oxley residents were, and how willing neighbours were to help each other.

Oxley is a bit under-valued, in my opinion, as you have access to the Ipswich motorway in to the city, a fantastic rail-way service (which is improving services very soon), and a quick drive to University of Queensland (which is useful for both staff and students!).

Coming from Sydney, I would say that Oxley has relatively few eating out options - however this seems to be fairly standard for Brisbane (excl. those very inner suburbs, which are very expensive).
However, there is a very nice pub - the Oxley hotel, as well as a friendly, old-school bowls club on Englefield Road. The Marmalade cafe is also a nice little coffee shop on Cook st.
There is also a development in town which hopefully will see an increase in the number of eating out options...

There appears to be action on the beautification front, with plenty of street trees planted around Oxley recently - and I think this will make a vast improvement. Unfortunately, the state of properties/land on Oxley road gives a pretty poor impression of the town, however going down side-streets and into Oxley central will show you that it is a generally green, clean and leafy place.