pandibabi

Been at Inala for quarter of a century, I have since moved to the opposite side of Brisbane due to the industry I'm in and to make the commute less hassling. I found that I miss alot of things that I took for granted when I was at Inala:
- Multiple choices of highways to get where I want, so if one had traffic I can choose a different one, I can go to CBD, Sunnybank, Ipswich, Springfield Lakes, Indooroopilly, Sunnybank, Mt Gravatt, Mt Ommaney (all the major retail and happening spots in Brisbane) for less than 20mins drive! The Gold Coast is only an hour away!
- Food: so much variety at asian groceries, practically none on the north side. There's no shortage of variety of foods.
- Dining out: you can buy a dinner meal for under $10, you be lucky to pay that for lunch on the north side.
- Communications infrastructure - my mobile doesn't work at my workplace or at home & that's after changing providers! Inala has the best internet infrastructure - you can get any ISP to service Inala, whereas on the Northside I can only get ADSL1 - very annoying and COSTLY.
- Inala has a very good PCYC which provides very cheap gym facilities, not to mention its close to Forest Lake which has its own heated indoor swimming pool
- Plenty of Parks to walk your pet as well, not a concrete suburb like up north, plenty of greenery.
- Inala shopping centre isn't like Indooroopilly, but the locals gather there to shop and chit chat - great community spirit.
- Can't comment on pay tv as I didn't need it at Inala
- Traffic - non existent as being a local I always took the side streets so never encountered traffic. Inala shopping centre is almost always full cause people like to congregate there.
- Didn't get outages during storms or issues when Oxley (next suburb over) was flooded
- Inala house prices jumped quickly due to all its infrastructure and amenities - its only a few klms to the Brisbane CBD, one of the fastest growing cities in Australia!
- Most houses and land were done back when land was not scarce so very generous in room, house and land sizes.
- BULK BILL - no doctor in Inala will decline bulk billing, Northside you have to pay to even see a doctor :( so I go back to Inala to see a doctor teehee
- Every weekend I come back to Inala to see my family and do my groceries because it is that much better choice - its worth the extra fuel and time.