Hi Ashley
we looked into high school performance table & which private schools had places available so we ended up looking in Manly West area. We are living in Wakerley. We prefer being costal too. We have friends that live in Victoria Point, if it wasn’t for my sons school we would probably move there. However it’s a longer commute to the city. You get much more house for your money. Manly train station to city is about 1 hour commute to CBD door to door. I don’t know anything about Sandgate sorry.
I would say VP is 1.5 hrs commute by train. We’re looking at buying in Birkdale, not too far from city but more house for your money than Manly & Wynnum areas