Originally Posted by youngy73 (Post 5613130)

bluewater estate will eventually join trinity beach although accessed from trinity park at present. bluewater canal ( the water bit infested with sand flies) is trinity park. when looking at an investment look carefully. blocks in there start at $200,000. pretty ordinary house to build would be atleast $300,000 by the time it all fenced and lanscaped. throw a pool in and thats another $40,000 by the time you have fenced it. then stamp duty. trinity park was and still is the worsed placed on the northen beaches for druggies and tose less fortunate in life.you will see all the shit housing as you drive down reed road. trinity beach does have a little strip where kids hoon back and forth(the wife did a 3 month stint at smithfield station earlier in the year)

Originally Posted by Timber Floor Au (Post 5613222)

fark..

Goes to show, you dont know all this from a website, sounds like a bad area.

Should clean up, as money and infrastructure move in?

Originally Posted by Timber Floor Au (Post 5613222)

fark..

Goes to show, you dont know all this from a website, sounds like a bad area.

Should clean up, as money and infrastructure move in?

Originally Posted by LauraC (Post 5613280)

Smithfield Village which is being built just behind Bluewater in Trinity Park is looking as though it will be a good place, although it is still partly a building site right now.

Originally Posted by youngy73 (Post 5613282)

sorry i forgot a bit. infastructure? this aint the great south east. very little gets spent on infastructure up here. funny how they build dams down south where there is no water and we discharge over a billion litres a day from ours

Originally Posted by Timber Floor Au (Post 5613299)

sorry.. in my day infrastructure, was roads, public services etc..

Originally Posted by youngy73 (Post 5613494)

cairns still gets cut off atleast twice every wet season so i guess theres no money there. public services i guess would be things like hospitals. i hope i never get cancer as it will be a 400km drive to townsville for treatment. again no money i guess. public transport is non existant. anyone who has ever tried to rely on the sunbus will tell you that.not a rant just a few of the realities of living in cairns.

Originally Posted by youngy73 (Post 5613289)

smithfield village has a good location to amenities and services and is reasonably affordable but its 500 metres north west of the tip. the prevailing wind is south east. just imagine.

Originally Posted by Bix (Post 5613935)

Is that the development near Mitre 10 ?

Originally Posted by youngy73 (Post 5613941)

yes, thats the one bordering the industrial estate.

Originally Posted by Bix (Post 5613950)

Some nice looking houses going up there but yep, a bit close to where I take my crap :p

Better off in Smithfield Heights.

Originally Posted by youngy73 (Post 5613999)

there are 1300 blocks planned for smithfield village.smithfield heights with rooftop views. beautiful.

Originally Posted by Bix (Post 5614041)

Yeah but the majority of housing in Cairns is built on the flat so virtually no views apart from a fence and a rainforest hillside.
At least on the Heights they can look over the rooves.....if the trees allow.

Do you know if anything is planned up at Red Peak ?
Went in there recently and doesn't look too bad.

Originally Posted by fraser (Post 5611901)

A lot of pissed indigenous people. We were going to book a hotel there and an old time poster who ping ponged there told me.