If your working @ the valley suburbs close to Toombul Nundah stations like Wavell heights, Chermside you can pick up 3 bedders for (450-500k) look great value to me.
Toombul is 12 min to the valley !!
Well, I personally wouldn't be making my choice of where I lived based solely on 5 or 10 minutes of rail commute difference. I'd be thinking first about which schools I'd be happy to send my kids to, which suburb I actually want to live in, and where I can find a house I like for the price I like. Then I'd be crossing off the places that I thought had a bad commute.
Fact is, everywhere with a train station has pretty convenient access to Fortitude valley depending on your tolerance for sitting in a train, and there are some suburbs on the south side and west side which have a shorter commute than some suburbs on the north side.
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Well, I personally wouldn't be making my choice of where I lived based solely on 5 or 10 minutes of rail commute difference. I'd be thinking first about which schools I'd be happy to send my kids to, which suburb I actually want to live in, and where I can find a house I like for the price I like. Then I'd be crossing off the places that I thought had a bad commute.
Fact is, everywhere with a train station has pretty convenient access to Fortitude valley depending on your tolerance for sitting in a train, and there are some suburbs on the south side and west side which have a shorter commute than some suburbs on the north side.
But in the course of making such a decision, it no doubt helps to have accurate figures about what the commute times actually are.
It just seems bizarre to me that anyone--sorry, Frank--is even attempting to argue that North Side suburbs are not more convenient to a Fortitude Valley commuting destination than South Side ones, particularly when the OP has highlighted a desired reliance on train commuting and a $450K price point.
As for schools, there are good ones on the north side (Ascot SS, Eagle Junction SS, Wilston SS, plus private options), just as there are on the south side, or the inner west.
Well, I personally wouldn't be making my choice of where I lived based solely on 5 or 10 minutes of rail commute difference. I'd be thinking first about which schools I'd be happy to send my kids to, which suburb I actually want to live in, and where I can find a house I like for the price I like. Then I'd be crossing off the places that I thought had a bad commute.
Fact is, everywhere with a train station has pretty convenient access to Fortitude valley depending on your tolerance for sitting in a train, and there are some suburbs on the south side and west side which have a shorter commute than some suburbs on the north side.
he actually runs the most established high end brothel in Beijing and lives there full time to oversee quality control. Each day i make a point to stop what im doing for a brief moment to envy and admire him.
But in the course of making such a decision, it no doubt helps to have accurate figures about what the commute times actually are.
It just seems bizarre to me that anyone--sorry, Frank--is even attempting to argue that North Side suburbs are not more convenient to a Fortitude Valley commuting destination than South Side ones, particularly when the OP has highlighted a desired reliance on train commuting and a $450K price point.
As for schools, there are good ones on the north side (Ascot SS, Eagle Junction SS, Wilston SS, plus private options), just as there are on the south side, or the inner west.
yep right on!!
Sober
3 Sep 2013, 07:20 PM
miw lives in china...
fair enough
mel
3 Sep 2013, 07:20 PM
he actually runs the most established high end brothel in Beijing and lives there full time to oversee quality control. Each day i make a point to stop what im doing for a brief moment to envy and admire him.
Yes it does add up. I'm not saying it isn't a consideration. I'd just hate to exclude everything except the Northside just on the basis that Fortude valley is closest to the north side. Same goes for excluding North side when your stop is Roma St.
When I have lived in BNE I have lived in the inner west. And I have commuted to Brunswick St. Station. The bulk of my commute time was getting to the station and waiting for the train, not time spent sitting in the train.
mel
3 Sep 2013, 07:20 PM
he actually runs the most established high end brothel in Beijing and lives there full time to oversee quality control. Each day i make a point to stop what im doing for a brief moment to envy and admire him.
It's a tough gig but somebody has to do it.
True story: About 4 years ago I walked away from a business investment because I became strongly (and as it turned out rightly) suspicious that other people involved in the biz were also involved in prostitution. It was hard to walk away from $10k, but it felt better when they all had to leave town in a crackdown a year later and I didn't.
Yes it does add up. I'm not saying it isn't a consideration. I'd just hate to exclude everything except the Northside just on the basis that Fortude valley is closest to the north side. Same goes for excluding North side when your stop is Roma St.
So on what grounds might you advise the OP to consider, or even prefer, southside or inner west options over northside ones, given the OP's stated parameters?
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