I lived on the east side of Bribie- In woorim - for a year in 1999 when I worked in Caboolture Hospital- I loved it - used to go running on the beach before work and look for pods of dolphins, and dugongs under the bridge. It was beautiful but oh my god it used to just SHUT at 6pm. No where to eat, one cinema in a shed where you got to choose the film and the man running it used to bring out mugs of tea on a tray half way through, no where to go for a beer, and the roads used to just clog up on pension day - I seem to remember there was a special driving license for pensioners to drive on pension day only - but perhaps the isolation is making me mis-remember :)) I guess it must have changed a bit since then.......
Well, it must have made an impression because all these years later me and OH are trying to come back!