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"Great place to live and raise a family"
My family and I have lived in Moranbah for the last four years and could`t imagine a better place to live and raise children, its safe, friendly and relaxed. Moranbah is a thriving regional metropolis positioned 2 hours drive from the amazing Whitsundays. There is a great sense of community, you seldom go to the shops without recognizing or chatting with someone you know. As in most regional towns there is a great deal of sport played and it seems as though everyone is involved in one sport or another, if the parents are`nt then their children are!. The majority of the towns people are employed by large multinational mining companies. These companies have work place agreements to pay for the vast majority of the workers rent or supply enormous cash incentives for those employees who prefer to own their own homes.
The Mining companies invest a great deal of money in providing infrastructure and facilities for the community. We have state of the art sporting and educational facilities, modern hospital, major shops like Coles and Target as well as the usual fast food outlets,one of the best golf coarse greens west of the Whitsundays( six pack of beer, golf car and green fees for 40 odd dollars!),new aquatic center under construction, 8 restaurants, airport with several flights daily from Brisbane on Quantas. We also have an enormous amount of events throughout the year with something happening almost every weekend.
The area around Moranbah has massive coking coal (used to make steel, not electricity)deposits of a quality and volume not commonly seen around the world and due to this fact many new mines are due to open over the next 5 years and provide massive economic benefit to our community.
With an unemployment rate of around 1% and likely to fall lower, I believe our region has a very very bright future ahead of it.
Great for
- Sense of community
- Activities for young children
- No traffic congestion
- Sport
Who lives here?
- Professionals
- Singles
- Families with kids
I couldn't agree more with you gmason. we to have now left Moranbah. the only solution is for more AFFORDABLE house to be built. With a bit of luck rents might drop once the supersized Mac camp is complete.
DON'T BRING YOUR FAMILY HERE!!!
We left this town 4months ago due to our rent being increased to $980.00 per week for an older style 3bedroom house not that it mattered to the Agent and landlord that we didn't receive maintenance as often as we paid our $750.00 religiously every week. I see by reading numerous posts on the Moranbah Housing Page and the newly created Moranbah Rental Crisis Action Group that things have only gotten worse! Moranbah is not a place to take your family too any longer, just look at what the greedy agents and landlords are pricing the rentals at - its criminal. I hate to think of the amount of people that will be left without a home come Christmas. Yes, of course you greedy investors and the likes will always try and justify your greed, but in the end it is profiteering. People who are looking at living in this town, DON'T, if you have a family in tow - sure read all the justifications of the greedy agents and landlords, but at the end of the day - read the comments and stories on those Moranbah pages I recommended above of real families been torn apart by the rent hikes of $1000.00+.
FYI majority of these greedy investors don't even live in this town, let alone this state or even this country!! Be forewarned, there are already 57 families on the emergency waiting list for houses due to the Rental Greed - you don't want your family to be next!