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From a city person who's lived here 6 months
PROS
* wildlife everywhere* beautiful scenery & nature * safe for running, cycling & hiking - also local social groups for these * clean air* quiet* the Milky Way* lots of shops & dining options* friendly locals* no oppressive humidity* decent cold winters with frost
CONS
*old uneducated bigots *roaming/unfenced dogs *lack of professional behaviour & experience across all sectors - desperate need for more city & coast ppl *tight rental market

I have lived in Zillmere/Taigum end for over a year. It is a really mixed bag. I don't feel unsafe, but there are so many rough housing commission bogans with litter everywhere, broken furniture and toys on the footpaths, etc mixed in with lovely new apartment and townhouses like my development. The Boondall police work really hard on trying to respond and clean up the area, but I feel like we need twice the amount of cops. There is a lot of hooning. My letter box has been broken into 3 times and items stolen. I have had to lodge it with the police and PoliceLink. :( Around Zillmere road and the station is rife with the mentally ill, bogans littering and scungy people in general. The QLD govt seriously needs to look at this suburb and cleaning it up and making it more safe with less thievery; all these developments are being built but nothing is being down about the scumbags. I don't want to sit in my lovely garden and hear white trash walking down the street screaming obsenities at each other, or worry about locking up my apartment like fort Knox.