bryam99

I live in Ipswich and it’s lovely. The river link shopping centre is nice right next to the river and there are some lovely older houses with beautiful colonial architecture. The city is older than brisbane. It is a lower socioeconomic area but it is nothing like the Uk equivalent. Don’t be put off by one bad experience. Hubby and I ride motorbikes and we go out west from ipswich. 20 mins to beautiful lakes and mountains with low traffic. Cormorant bay has a lovely restaurant that overlooks the reservoir. It’s stunning. We have beach days too all are around an hour or two for the Sunshine Coast. Each to their own, but we have settled well here. Daughter went to USQ university of southern Queensland. If we need the city we can drive there in 40 mins. We rarely go there though with such natural beauty in our doorstep, more likely to drive up to Toowoomba through Cunningham’s gap and enjoy gorgeous scenery on the way. Toowoomba is about 1.5 hours inland and is called the city of flowers for the annual flower festival. The botanic gardens are lovely there and the Cobb and co museum. The Logan motorway takes us down to the M5 and the Gold Coast beaches/theme parks in an hour. We like it.

I agree wholeheartedly. Renting here sucks. Our life has improved in every other way but we were shocked at how tenants are treated here. We spent two days cleaning our old rental after we had moved all our stuff out and from the way the agent spoke to me you would think we had NEVER cleaned the house! We are buying (at last) a new build we move next may but I am dreading the whole ordeal of moving out here and the inspection. On this tenancy there was a clause that we have to have professional bond cleaners in and they are expensive, our rental house is big 4 beds so the professional clean will be around $600! We are good clean quiet tenants, never late on rent payments but for 4 years we haven't even been able to put a picture on the wall. In my opinion you are not renting a home but looking after someones investment, they expect it to be the same condition at the end of the tenancy period. Back home THEY would have to pay YOU for the service. Not impressed at all with the attitude towards tenants. It needs changing, it's a very elitist mindset they have.:mad: