lukes11

Lived here for 10+ years. Nice place to holiday and living close to the beach is great. However, housing is over priced as well as renting. The problem with Mooloolaba is when the sun goes down. This is partly due to the amount of nightclubs and pubs along the main strip and the large amount of rented units/houses which allows a cheap route for the deadbeats to live together and afford to live in the area. A typical night and early mornings in a residential area of Mooloolaba you will have to deal with the drunks and deadbeats walking to and from the clubs/pubs causing all sought of trouble (e.g. fighting, loud disorderly behaviour). Hence, this is not the safest place you would want to go for a night time walk especially on a Friday and Saturday night; It really has become a mini Gold coast. Cops are everywhere roaming the suburb at nights (and rightly so) and it wasn't a typical Friday or Saturday night in Mooloolaba with out a cop car's siren whizzing by the front of my house ( and I didn't even live on the main drag). Crime rates here especially assaults are underreported. Tip, if you do indeed to decide to move to Mooloolaba, Pick a spot/street/road which is least likely to be used by deadbeats to come and go from the nightlife.