Brisben

Yep redcliffe is great, but what a daily commute, painful.

Bayside brisbane, or south east brisbane is great, but hey each to their own, trust me wherever you first go, it will be hard to move on to somewhere else so choose wisely.

TrickyTree

We nearly bought our first place in Oxley and if I were working around there would look at the suburbs on the Ipswich line between Chelmer and Oxley. The commute to the city and Oxley would be straight forward on the trains. Where as the commute between Vic Point/Redcliffe and Oxley would leave me suicidal after a month or so.

http://www.citytrain.com.au/stations...south_west.asp

ridds

I'd give a thumbs up to the Oxley / Corinda / Sherwood area - lots of good schools (both public and private), great transport links with buses and trains, shops, cinemas, parks etc.

ABCDiamond

That did look a bit odd to me at the time, but I never checked it. Funny thing is that it was also from whereis.com. Must be because it had three points on the calculation. I see now I should have put the three points in a different order.

I wonder if I can change it now I could change the map but I can't edit the time and distance...

comet555

I don't think it's the three points, sometimes whereis just gives slightly odd routes. I almost always have to drag the line to a different and slightly more sensible route. I think it just tries a bit too hard to stay to the main roads sometimes and it neglects the quicker back roads.

Broad Shoulders

as a rule it will favour roads that have a higher average speed limit, but does not take into consideration junctions or traffic lights in choosing that route

Kim67

I'd second that - was one of areas, we looked at buying. I think OP should rent in that area first and then check out where they want to settle when they've had time to check Brisbane out.

comet555

Yes, that does make sense given some of the trips it's tried to take me on!

Gaz & Sue

Totally would agree with the above

Madster

OH will be working in Oxley hence one of the reasons we thought to have a look at it. Doing a reccie in a few weeks, I am all for renting first like someone on here said, however since we got here we have spent a fortune moving between two rentals, and then finallly in to our own house, so to ship all of our belongings to Brissie and then have them store it (have quite a bit of stuff), it would cost a fortune, so hopefully can find a decent place to live to move straight into.

ABC talking of whereis,or a similar site my boss had to go to Portland the other day without a sat nav so went into where is and typed in Portland (pretty sure that waas the place), anyway as he gets into the car to drive and skim the directions, he realised it had gone a slightly long route, cos it said when you get to the pacific or whatever sea it was , get out of car and swim acroos, then get a hire car etc etc, it had selected Portland in the states, and obv thought it would be fun to take the mickey. Well my boss didnt, I though was quite amused.

It just goes to show that if you want to go somewhere new, forget whereis, forget sat nav, what you really need is a woman to read the map.

bobbyftm

I travel from Cleveland to Wacol (a few ks past Oxley ) on my daily commute and it's quite do able .Leave 5am arrive 5:40 ish .Leave Wacol 3pm arrive home 3:50 ish

fish.01

Not advocating either choice but from Redcliffe to Oxley you wouldn't go via the Gateway bridge - you would travel through the backstreets of the northern suburbs to Toowong (a colleague told me this last week) and travel over the indooroopilly bridge.

fish.01

Man, that is quick!!!

Kim67

I think the tardis is his preferred mode of transport.

bobbyftm

Ah yes a slip o the finga my friend