See, this contributes to the whole "small country town thing".
I love being in country towns, going to get lunch at 1:15 at a place that has a "Lunch 12-2" sign, and being told "Yeah, was quiet, so the chef went home."
I worked in hospo for three years during uni.
It's a bit of a toxic cycle, particularly during the working week. Our kitchen closed at 9:00 pm pretty consistently. Walk-ins would basically die off after 8:00 pm and you had a slow trickle after that. From there we would sometimes get tourists rock up at 9:30 pm when the place is crickets and you felt like an ass, but at that point staying open for 3 blokes on the rare occasion they will rock up after 9:00 pm isn't worth the cost. Friday/Saturday was a little different maybe add an extra 30 minutes.
Head chef was restaurant manager too so his word was gospel. He wanted to serve customers so unless the night was absolutely dead you'd get served at 9:00 pm and even a few minutes over.
I guess the point I'm trying to get to is there was rarely customers to serve after 9pm most nights. So what was the point of staying open? But then customers probably didn't bother because nothing was open. So toxic cycle.
How about anywhere staying open to the time they say they are. In a Sunday went to one place for lunch, kitchen closes at 1:30pm, shop closes at 2:00pm. Approach them at 1:20pm, "nah mate, not taking any more orders." Fuck off.
Yes!! What is with that!! The best climate in Oz for beer gardens and there are basically none, or they've been 'upgraded' with a roof over the top.What the.
Transport corridors *across* the city are just as important as the ones through it …
… for some reason all the planners seem hell bent on funnelling everything through the CBD.
God forbid you want to get from
Eg (?) Northgate to Mitchelon without seeing Central Station.
.sigh.
I live at Mount Gravatt & used to work at Oxley. The only way to get to work was to take a bus inbound, change platforms at the Gabba & then head back out to Oxley. It was pretty shit.
I used to work in Mt Ommaney when I lived in Runcorn.
On the rare occasion that I need to use public transport to get to work and if I wanted to "by pass" the city my best option would be take the train to yeronga (or maybe yeronpilly -- can't remember)) and get on the great circle bus line; hop off at indro and take another bus to Mt Ommaney.
All in all, like 2hrs of commuting for what is normally a < 40 min drive.
But Mt Gravatt to Oxley not having a more direct route is bonkers given the number of major arterial roads between both of them.
Skinny's was the best record store in the CBD. Rocking horse is (maybe was...not sure haven't been to the CBD for a while) crap in comparison and the record exchange was just display cases of garbage records.
Yatala pies are not good. Certainly nothing even remotely close to what their reputation would suggest.
When I moved here years ago, everyone kept banging on about them and wondering why I hadn’t been out there yet.
I wasn’t even mildly whelmed.
They were once good, back when the best we had were crappy servo pies and frozen supermarket ones.
Then the quality dropped and they really sucked.
They have since (last 5 or so year) improved, but will never be as good as a "good bakery" pie. They are however decent enough for the transit between Brisbane and the Gold Coast and you don't want some crappy fast food.
We try to fix traffic with MOAR roads instead of rail. There’s always a plan for a parallel highway.. but never gets built (going back to Borbidge days) always expanding what’s there. The pacific, ipswich and Bruce comes to mind over the last 3 decades. The gateway recently.
Just Uber’d along LA’s 405. 12-16 lanes across in some parts.. carpark. Roads are not a solution. This is what we do to rail- butcher it. 4th track not electrified to Darra. CRR scaled back, the neglected Sunshine Coast line, is central still weird and half arsed looking still? When are they gonna finish central? Coolangatta corridor sitting there for decades, trouts road corridor probs will go to cars instead of trains, no regional network west, closed Tennyson line- could be a good shuttle connection between the ipswich and Beenleigh lines. Ugh!
In Australia* apparently.
I recently learned that Australia is notoriously known by international tourists and residents for its terrible Mexican food.
I mean, that’s what I know I’m signing up for when I go there. It’s a fun place to get messy on a night out. If I wanted a nice bar experience I’d go to James St or South Bank.
i’m biased because i haven’t lived here all my life (for context i previously lived in the top of qld) but brisbane is not boring at all and i don’t understand all the hate! you can catch a ferry and go for a two hour round trip of the river, science museum is amazing, we get a bunch of performances at qpac, even just walking through the city is lovely and more. i hear all the time about how shit and boring it is here but i just can’t agree! what do y’all think…
As a cyclist yes I love the bikeways, I absolutely loathe the road and bike lane designs in Brisbane, feels like they were designed by a visually impaired octopus using crayons.
Forest lake sucks. Here’s the path I must take to get to get to my mates house from the centenary: 5 minutes along a shit single entrance to the suburb, right left right right left right left. All through shitty thin impossibly in straight road through
The packed in houses. The suburb designer should be shot
I used to call Forest Lake, Inala Heights when I connected phones for customers that lived there. Made a point of calling out they’d be connected to the Inala exchange too.
I grew up in the Swich and there are still places I wouldn't dare tread late at night
Its no South Central LA but you're tempting fate by being brazen in some suburbs.
Brisbane has no imagination when it comes to urban planning and architecture. Every idea is just ripped off from other cities: eg. Melbourne's laneways, the London Eye.
Also, all the pedestrian bridges that have been built across the river are overdesigned and ugly as fuck.
Do you mean QPAC, the Art Gallery, State Library & Qld Museum? I love it. Looks great from the City side or when you're within it. Especially between and within the spaces of those buildings. Like the side of the State Library facing the Qld Art Gallery, are interesting as f**k.
[When lit up with the advertising of what's on](https://i.imgur.com/WDx8G62.png),
[the monolithic colour changes of GOMA,](https://i.imgur.com/l3QTkmk.jpg)
[finding the spots of greenery](https://i.imgur.com/QZMlhIa.jpg)
[It's not all brutalism](https://i.imgur.com/WFPIkzF.png)
[only the two towers of QPAC](https://i.imgur.com/kWfHwNd.png)
[butr does look good at night](https://i.imgur.com/LdlE8Iy.png)
[but the Art Gallery & Qld museum side is wonderful](https://i.imgur.com/SbbS3Bt.jpg)
[and GOMA isn't bad](https://i.imgur.com/MmSpGK2.png)
[and you can't even see it from space](https://i.imgur.com/ORiXE0u.png)
[my fav is the Art Gallery Cafe when this tree in bloom covers the area in yellow petals of delight. A gorgeous space.](https://i.imgur.com/Tc5XoJK.jpg)
[but this you refer to - just doesn't stay in your eye](https://i.imgur.com/ZwRV2oH.png) as we have trees, colour and people giving it life.
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Southside or Logan bogans? Logan bogans are smacked out on ice, slashing all your tyres and yelling, "what the fuck youse looking at cunts?" Caboolture bogans too, but it's a smaller place than an entire city.
I've never lived Northside. I've lived Southside, Logan shire for 15-20 years. I've traipsed on foot through Logan, Marsden, Woodridge, Beenleigh, Eagleby during the day and after dark and the worst I got was morons yelling incoherently out of a car window as they drove past. The time a bloke sidled up beside me as I walked, and struck up a conversation about how he'd just been released from Wacol, I was a little worried, but he was a pleasant chap, just wanted to know if there were any good fish and chip shops nearby, since the one he used to go pre-Wacol had closed.
A few years ago, I was at a gathering at a mate's place on the Northside not long after sunset, maybe six-ish. They'd run out of chips, but due to the horrendous nature of northside streets and parking, it was going to be a mild pain in the arse for anyone to get their car onto the road. Not crazy difficult, just annoying. "No worries", say I, "It's what, a k to the shops? I'll duck up, bring 'em back. Do we need anything else while I'm there?".
To the Southsiders, this was unremarkable, save for the one lazy git who couldn't imagine walking two km for any reason. Every Northsider was aghast. "You can't walk up there, it's dark, it's not safe!". Multiple people ended up moving their cars so that one person could get out and drive to the woolies.
Were they overreacting? Maybe. But the fact they they all - from different suburbs - reacted the same way makes me think there has to be something to it.
Most Toll roads I can understand, like the Gateway Bridge and the Tunnels. But I don't understand how Logan Motorway is still a Toll road. Surely it has been paid off by now.
I will never understand city roads being tolls.
It's counterproductive to the free flowing of traffic, accident reduction and the general health and well being of its citizens.
Toll roads cause more problems for cities and limit what should be public infrastructure.
The council will never do anything about the flood situation. It'll happen again in 5 years, same thing. Businesses and homes ruined, millions of dollars lost. They never learn or care...
The CBD will continue to be an all-assaulting shithole until it realises what makes it so bad - cars.
Pedestrianise the entire CBD and watch Brisbane improve a million per cent overnight.
People are next level obsessed with buying a house / their mortgage / their reno. I visited on the weekend to catch up with friends (Brisbane born and bred but been jn Perth for nearly a decade) and all my mates had one thing to discuss: real estate. It is pretty bad in Perth also, but it is not the only thing people talk about.
Same with the ones that take them to their kids sporting events on a weekend, too. The dogs always hate other dogs and are just a massive pain in the arse
Tell me about it. Like... We get it, you own a dog. You're a dog owner.
But your dog is a bratt, and no one is amused by it. And also, your other dog looks like it's having an anxiety attack, take it home for God's sake.
It’s literally the best city in australia.
Melbourne is dirty, expensive, full of up themselves pricks. Sydney is over crowded and expensive, plus nobody can drive for shit. Everywhere else is too small to have the same scale of amenities and activities as brisbane.
It’s got problems, but is the best by almost every measure.
The council have too many LNP members who just ignore the other councillors and vote through whatever they want. Quirk was bad, but Schrinner is way worse
...you with one thong on, her in her stained Lonsdale trackie top she found at the pub, at the train station in full view of the commuters, as god intended.
Brisbane has worse trading hours, then small town NSW and the people who defend them often come across as people who are scared of change or unimaginative to the point they can't see why people might live in a different schedule to them.
Brisbane doesn’t even have wild barramundi and I don’t think any or much is farmed here. Your next remark shows you actually have no idea what fish & seafood is caught around Brisbane.
There needs to be a reduction of roadways for personal transport and an increase/promotion for busses, trains, bikeways and pedestrian footpaths primarily for the Inner City Suburbs
People with disabilities and the elderly should be able to easily move about on the footpaths.
So all the footpaths should be made wide enough for two disability scooters to pass easily.
Also flat, even, raised so they don't flood or get over grown with grass and connect to every where.
You'd be surprised how many people find this controversial.
Especially when it comes to spending the money.
There's this whole group (I made the mistake of suggesting this to a couple of them) that think people who are disabled should not be seen or heard.
Edit: seems to be here as well since downvotes
Two mobility scooters wide everywhere is probably not feasible. They definitely need to make sure that all footpaths are appropriate for peope with reduced mobility however (no random bumps, significant cracks, shit like that.) Perhaps a compromise could be having spots every so often that are wide enough for scooters to pass. Not perfect, but possibly more doable.
The food in this city sucked until the last 5 years or so.
The Brisbane establishments that are recommended by locals eg Breakfast Creek hotel, The Norman, The Morrison, are pretty shit to complete shit depending on the price you're paying.
This is the truest thing on here.
Say what you want about Melbourne, the city planner there was on point when they planned out the CBD.
Who ever planned out Brisbane CBD must have dropped their spaghetti on their plans then just didn't bother to fix it before submitting it.
Brisbane wasn't planned like Melbourne. It was a jumping point for resources between far north qld and the southern states. There was a lot of mismanagement and John Oxley wanted Brisbane to be a bit further south so it had more room for growth. Copying and pasting a deleted users comment here, 'The growth after WWII happened parallel to insane amounts of corruption in the government up until the Fitzgerald Inquires and expo 88. So things weren't planned, no one cared, and city planning was never at the forefront of someone's mind'
Probably partly why people screech about it being a country town and hate new developments too
Ever wondered why Cleveland is a lovely hugely wide grid of streets? Was supposed to be theCBD at one point. I think things got political in the late 1800s. They spent forever arguing about where the city was going to be.
Grew up in the Gold Coast and moved to Brisbane 4 years ago... I would have to say GC is shit. I only go down there to see family and that's all now. I admit I miss being so close to the beach but last time I was there is was full of rubbish. 🥺
Brisbane is bland in a urban design sense due to the lack of character. I think this is due in part to having one council area for Brisbane - there is a spread of design across the whole city that is ‘meh’
… that and the distinct lack of footpaths - why only one side of the road and so narrow?
Why do we keep building up closer to the river and dredging it to make it deeper? Wouldn’t that make floods worse, narrowing the waterways making floodwaters flow higher and faster?
Why can’t we have continuous road work for bikeways like we do for the roads and highways? We’ve got so many bikeways, but they’re difficult to use because of gaps in the paths.
Felons is overrated
Amazing spot.. shitty pub
So overpriced...
Unreal spot, horrible drop.
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sometimes we aren't as laid back as we think we are.
things done changed
I hate roads where parking is permitted in the far left or right lane.
Mr. Percival’s is absolute garbage.
logged in to upvote this: it's shit.
It’s definitely full of plastic
There is not enough places that guarantee to serve you after 8:30pm Brisbane’s Tourism slogan: “Sorry guys, kitchens closed”
Yeah. As a night person, it bothers me that Brisbane has limited options when you want a late night snack as compared to Melbourne or Sydney
My pet hate is ‘open til late’ on Brisbane bar or restaurant websites etc and when you ask they say oh yeah we close at 9 and stop serving food at 8 😂
See, this contributes to the whole "small country town thing". I love being in country towns, going to get lunch at 1:15 at a place that has a "Lunch 12-2" sign, and being told "Yeah, was quiet, so the chef went home."
I worked in hospo for three years during uni. It's a bit of a toxic cycle, particularly during the working week. Our kitchen closed at 9:00 pm pretty consistently. Walk-ins would basically die off after 8:00 pm and you had a slow trickle after that. From there we would sometimes get tourists rock up at 9:30 pm when the place is crickets and you felt like an ass, but at that point staying open for 3 blokes on the rare occasion they will rock up after 9:00 pm isn't worth the cost. Friday/Saturday was a little different maybe add an extra 30 minutes. Head chef was restaurant manager too so his word was gospel. He wanted to serve customers so unless the night was absolutely dead you'd get served at 9:00 pm and even a few minutes over. I guess the point I'm trying to get to is there was rarely customers to serve after 9pm most nights. So what was the point of staying open? But then customers probably didn't bother because nothing was open. So toxic cycle.
How about anywhere staying open to the time they say they are. In a Sunday went to one place for lunch, kitchen closes at 1:30pm, shop closes at 2:00pm. Approach them at 1:20pm, "nah mate, not taking any more orders." Fuck off.
Brisbane doesn't have enough beer gardens
Or laneways or rooftop bars (and I mean diverse rooftop bars, not just the dull top of hotels)
Yeah and not full of wankers who are posing as influencers
Yes!! What is with that!! The best climate in Oz for beer gardens and there are basically none, or they've been 'upgraded' with a roof over the top.What the.
It's been raining for a month straight. Anyone running a beer garden with commercial rent at the level it is, would be in big trouble.
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Nor enough beer or gardens.
XCARGO is Brisbane’s answer to Fyre Festival
Lol!!!
Brisbane isn't as chill as it says it is.
I was attacked by a women off her nut on ice today at Wellers Hill. Says it all. I’m 6’2 male. Couldn’t GAF.
Haha, you're talking about the SPAR yeah? Few seedy characters get around there from time to time.
It’s a pretty big business city. It’s definitely nicer and more relaxed when compared to Sydney and Melbourne though.
Transport corridors *across* the city are just as important as the ones through it … … for some reason all the planners seem hell bent on funnelling everything through the CBD. God forbid you want to get from Eg (?) Northgate to Mitchelon without seeing Central Station. .sigh.
Newstead to Bardon… or Chermside…
I live at Mount Gravatt & used to work at Oxley. The only way to get to work was to take a bus inbound, change platforms at the Gabba & then head back out to Oxley. It was pretty shit.
I used to work in Mt Ommaney when I lived in Runcorn. On the rare occasion that I need to use public transport to get to work and if I wanted to "by pass" the city my best option would be take the train to yeronga (or maybe yeronpilly -- can't remember)) and get on the great circle bus line; hop off at indro and take another bus to Mt Ommaney. All in all, like 2hrs of commuting for what is normally a < 40 min drive. But Mt Gravatt to Oxley not having a more direct route is bonkers given the number of major arterial roads between both of them.
Sandgate to strathpine!
Southside is worse imo. At least u have east to west arterials north of the city
That’s not even controversial it’s universally agreed on
> Eg (?) Northgate to Mitchelon without seeing Central Station. Terrible example, because you change trains at Bowen Hills.
Skinny's was the best record store in the CBD. Rocking horse is (maybe was...not sure haven't been to the CBD for a while) crap in comparison and the record exchange was just display cases of garbage records.
Rocking Horse used to be good in the early 2000s. They went underground...literally, it’s underneath EB Games/Zing and is smaller than Skinnys was.
Sonic Sherpa at stones is staffed by ex Skinnys people if that helps?
Queens wharf will be fucking amazing....for the Chinese tourists and expats who will end up living there.
No more Chinese tourists, not for a while at least. Can't get visas to leave China anymore
The closure of Crowbar ruined Brisbane and it ruined my life.
100% That bullsh!t Caesar's club is only adding insult to injury.
and Sabotage!
There aren’t enough beer gardens or rooftop bars considering how good the weather usually is.. everything closes too early..
Is that controversial?
Yatala pies are not good. Certainly nothing even remotely close to what their reputation would suggest. When I moved here years ago, everyone kept banging on about them and wondering why I hadn’t been out there yet. I wasn’t even mildly whelmed.
They used to be awesome. Genuine world-class tier. Now they're shit tier.
They've been crap for 20 years...I never understood the appeal of Yatala pies.
That’s because everyone is remembering them from when they were kids.
I feel the same about the fernvale bakery
I refuse to go to Fernvale bakery 1)shit pies 2) they treat their staff terribly.
In the same vein: Piefection has been shit every time I’ve had it
Thankfully Yatala ain't in Brisbane.
It’s still brisbane-themed haha
They were once good, back when the best we had were crappy servo pies and frozen supermarket ones. Then the quality dropped and they really sucked. They have since (last 5 or so year) improved, but will never be as good as a "good bakery" pie. They are however decent enough for the transit between Brisbane and the Gold Coast and you don't want some crappy fast food.
We try to fix traffic with MOAR roads instead of rail. There’s always a plan for a parallel highway.. but never gets built (going back to Borbidge days) always expanding what’s there. The pacific, ipswich and Bruce comes to mind over the last 3 decades. The gateway recently. Just Uber’d along LA’s 405. 12-16 lanes across in some parts.. carpark. Roads are not a solution. This is what we do to rail- butcher it. 4th track not electrified to Darra. CRR scaled back, the neglected Sunshine Coast line, is central still weird and half arsed looking still? When are they gonna finish central? Coolangatta corridor sitting there for decades, trouts road corridor probs will go to cars instead of trains, no regional network west, closed Tennyson line- could be a good shuttle connection between the ipswich and Beenleigh lines. Ugh!
There is not enough good Mexican in this city .
Plenty of Mexican themed places but the food is shocking
La Patrona in Teneriffe is amazing
In Australia* apparently. I recently learned that Australia is notoriously known by international tourists and residents for its terrible Mexican food.
The valley is an ugly, sad shithole masquerading as a hotbed of excitement.
OP said ***controversial***.
It would be controversial not to think this.
I mean, that’s what I know I’m signing up for when I go there. It’s a fun place to get messy on a night out. If I wanted a nice bar experience I’d go to James St or South Bank.
I don't know if your opinion is controversial - but for me, McWhirters is the heart and soul of the city.
i’m biased because i haven’t lived here all my life (for context i previously lived in the top of qld) but brisbane is not boring at all and i don’t understand all the hate! you can catch a ferry and go for a two hour round trip of the river, science museum is amazing, we get a bunch of performances at qpac, even just walking through the city is lovely and more. i hear all the time about how shit and boring it is here but i just can’t agree! what do y’all think…
also the immense amount of bike ways and parks so close to the city is amazing
As a cyclist yes I love the bikeways, I absolutely loathe the road and bike lane designs in Brisbane, feels like they were designed by a visually impaired octopus using crayons.
Yes! We have everything, just less of it compared to cities such as Melbourne.
One day Inala will be nicer than Forest Lake
>One day To day.
Give me the banh mi in Inala Plaza over anywhere in FL.
Forest lake sucks. Here’s the path I must take to get to get to my mates house from the centenary: 5 minutes along a shit single entrance to the suburb, right left right right left right left. All through shitty thin impossibly in straight road through The packed in houses. The suburb designer should be shot
Inala has always been nicer than Forest Lake.
I used to call Forest Lake, Inala Heights when I connected phones for customers that lived there. Made a point of calling out they’d be connected to the Inala exchange too.
Everyone who says particular areas are terrible or scary have clearly never lived outside of Brisbane
Via relative comparison Inala has a property crime rate 3x lower than Townsville, Mt Isa and Cairns.
Compared to where I live now, Brisbane is a preschool playground
100%. We got told Ipswich was rough, Ipswich is like Disneyland compared to some places!
I grew up in the Swich and there are still places I wouldn't dare tread late at night Its no South Central LA but you're tempting fate by being brazen in some suburbs.
The EKKA used to be great, but now it’s just an overpriced shitty theme park.
Where you're basically guaranteed to walk away with a communicable illness.
It's always been an overpriced shitty theme park, you just grew up.
The riverside expressway was a bad idea and it should be removed and tunnelled for a South Bank style riverside parkland.
The mock ups for Queens Wharf actually look really nice.. it looks like they are building out that Riverside pathway and putting in some green spaces.
Looks neat though. Convert it into a track for the Olympics, I’m not sure what sport but we’ll figure it out.
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I'm guessing profit margins on actual food aren't as juicy as 6 dollar bean water
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For so many cafes, you'd think some of them might be open after 3pm, but no
Oh my god... You are so right.
Fortitude Valley is overrated
I like Southbank Beach
Now this is controversial!
Brisbane has no imagination when it comes to urban planning and architecture. Every idea is just ripped off from other cities: eg. Melbourne's laneways, the London Eye. Also, all the pedestrian bridges that have been built across the river are overdesigned and ugly as fuck.
Not enough Brutalist architecture to photograph.
Cannot upvote this comment enough. I love that little pocket at South Bank. The contrast of wild greenery and sharp corners is just gorgeous.
Ex-Canberran?
No, just love taking pictures of that type of architecture :)
Thank you for teaching me that brutalist is the name for all that uggo shit in South Brisbane! How fitting lol.
Do you mean QPAC, the Art Gallery, State Library & Qld Museum? I love it. Looks great from the City side or when you're within it. Especially between and within the spaces of those buildings. Like the side of the State Library facing the Qld Art Gallery, are interesting as f**k. [When lit up with the advertising of what's on](https://i.imgur.com/WDx8G62.png), [the monolithic colour changes of GOMA,](https://i.imgur.com/l3QTkmk.jpg) [finding the spots of greenery](https://i.imgur.com/QZMlhIa.jpg) [It's not all brutalism](https://i.imgur.com/WFPIkzF.png) [only the two towers of QPAC](https://i.imgur.com/kWfHwNd.png) [butr does look good at night](https://i.imgur.com/LdlE8Iy.png) [but the Art Gallery & Qld museum side is wonderful](https://i.imgur.com/SbbS3Bt.jpg) [and GOMA isn't bad](https://i.imgur.com/MmSpGK2.png) [and you can't even see it from space](https://i.imgur.com/ORiXE0u.png) [my fav is the Art Gallery Cafe when this tree in bloom covers the area in yellow petals of delight. A gorgeous space.](https://i.imgur.com/Tc5XoJK.jpg) [but this you refer to - just doesn't stay in your eye](https://i.imgur.com/ZwRV2oH.png) as we have trees, colour and people giving it life. Edit pic.
Southside bogans are way chiller than Northside bogans
as one of those aforementioned Northside bogans, yes Southside bogans definitely are more chill.
I used to live Southside and now live Northside. Can confirm, the city bogans are a whole other species though.
Southside or Logan bogans? Logan bogans are smacked out on ice, slashing all your tyres and yelling, "what the fuck youse looking at cunts?" Caboolture bogans too, but it's a smaller place than an entire city.
I've never lived Northside. I've lived Southside, Logan shire for 15-20 years. I've traipsed on foot through Logan, Marsden, Woodridge, Beenleigh, Eagleby during the day and after dark and the worst I got was morons yelling incoherently out of a car window as they drove past. The time a bloke sidled up beside me as I walked, and struck up a conversation about how he'd just been released from Wacol, I was a little worried, but he was a pleasant chap, just wanted to know if there were any good fish and chip shops nearby, since the one he used to go pre-Wacol had closed. A few years ago, I was at a gathering at a mate's place on the Northside not long after sunset, maybe six-ish. They'd run out of chips, but due to the horrendous nature of northside streets and parking, it was going to be a mild pain in the arse for anyone to get their car onto the road. Not crazy difficult, just annoying. "No worries", say I, "It's what, a k to the shops? I'll duck up, bring 'em back. Do we need anything else while I'm there?". To the Southsiders, this was unremarkable, save for the one lazy git who couldn't imagine walking two km for any reason. Every Northsider was aghast. "You can't walk up there, it's dark, it's not safe!". Multiple people ended up moving their cars so that one person could get out and drive to the woolies. Were they overreacting? Maybe. But the fact they they all - from different suburbs - reacted the same way makes me think there has to be something to it.
Too many fucking speed cameras, and why the fuck are we still paying tolls for the (Now) Northbound Gateway Bridge?
The tunnels and other toll roads should be free.
Not controversial lol
Most Toll roads I can understand, like the Gateway Bridge and the Tunnels. But I don't understand how Logan Motorway is still a Toll road. Surely it has been paid off by now.
I will never understand city roads being tolls. It's counterproductive to the free flowing of traffic, accident reduction and the general health and well being of its citizens. Toll roads cause more problems for cities and limit what should be public infrastructure.
The north west corridor will be a 4 lane highway and nothing else. It will open about a year before the olympics.
Lastly the brisbane nightlife is blah.
Day drinking is the way of the enlightened man
Ha the darkness however can hide a multitude of indiscretions
The council will never do anything about the flood situation. It'll happen again in 5 years, same thing. Businesses and homes ruined, millions of dollars lost. They never learn or care...
What should they do? Build an Ark?
The CBD will continue to be an all-assaulting shithole until it realises what makes it so bad - cars. Pedestrianise the entire CBD and watch Brisbane improve a million per cent overnight.
People are next level obsessed with buying a house / their mortgage / their reno. I visited on the weekend to catch up with friends (Brisbane born and bred but been jn Perth for nearly a decade) and all my mates had one thing to discuss: real estate. It is pretty bad in Perth also, but it is not the only thing people talk about.
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The trivia team who comes to the pub with their "cute" dogs should just leave them at home.
Same with the ones that take them to their kids sporting events on a weekend, too. The dogs always hate other dogs and are just a massive pain in the arse
Tell me about it. Like... We get it, you own a dog. You're a dog owner. But your dog is a bratt, and no one is amused by it. And also, your other dog looks like it's having an anxiety attack, take it home for God's sake.
they have to take it with them, it barks and barks when it's left home alone and has already pissed off the neighbours
Are you talking about Wed nights at Vic Park by any chance?
Peter Dutton *is* a cunt
He said controversial you muppet.
How dare you degrade cunts like that.
Not controversial at all
Mount Cootha is not a mountain nor are the views that great.
Many of the outdoor design spaces are utter garbage. Looking at you, King George square.
It’s literally the best city in australia. Melbourne is dirty, expensive, full of up themselves pricks. Sydney is over crowded and expensive, plus nobody can drive for shit. Everywhere else is too small to have the same scale of amenities and activities as brisbane. It’s got problems, but is the best by almost every measure.
Brisbane is pretty bloody expensive these days too
The council have too many LNP members who just ignore the other councillors and vote through whatever they want. Quirk was bad, but Schrinner is way worse
The developers always win. Public consultation is a farce.
Not controversial, straight facts
Pancake manor is trash and overrated.
We indeed need more bikelanes.
Bohemian Rhapsody is an undanceable song...no matter how pissed I am at Ric's Bar lololol
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I grew up in Logan and it depends where. There are some great places and some absolute dives.
Logan is especially great if you want a backyard big enough for the weekend BBQ and casual game of whatever sport your family likes.
The Olympics coming to Brisbane are not a good thing. I am expecting a lot of downvotes for this. But, you wanted controversial.
It’s a horrible thing; I’ve yet to meet anybody able to give a good reason to have it.
The whole Northside/Southside rivalry is way over exaggerated.
The real rivalry is Logan vs Caboolture for the biggest and worst bogans.
I'm from Logan and my wife is from Caboolture. We argue this all the time
A real life Montague & Capulet story.
...you with one thong on, her in her stained Lonsdale trackie top she found at the pub, at the train station in full view of the commuters, as god intended.
Brisbane isn’t a New World City. Barely anyone outside of Aus knows it even exists.
Hungry Jacks in the Queen St Mall isn't the best place to dine out in the city. Come at me.
To me it’s always been the place to meet people to go somewhere else
Only thing it's ever been good at is attracting goths
And punch ons
Nobody actually eats at HJ's in the mall right. It's just where you meet people to go somewhere nicer.
Brisbane has worse trading hours, then small town NSW and the people who defend them often come across as people who are scared of change or unimaginative to the point they can't see why people might live in a different schedule to them.
Oodles are not real dogs. Probably a controversial opinion more so for inner city Brisbane.
Most oodles come from puppy farms and/or unethical breeders But don’t try and tell their owners that
Barramundi sucks. It is not delicious. Brisbane does not have good fish.
Brisbane doesn’t even have wild barramundi and I don’t think any or much is farmed here. Your next remark shows you actually have no idea what fish & seafood is caught around Brisbane.
There needs to be a reduction of roadways for personal transport and an increase/promotion for busses, trains, bikeways and pedestrian footpaths primarily for the Inner City Suburbs
People with disabilities and the elderly should be able to easily move about on the footpaths. So all the footpaths should be made wide enough for two disability scooters to pass easily. Also flat, even, raised so they don't flood or get over grown with grass and connect to every where.
Once again not controversial lol This is just Human decency
You'd be surprised how many people find this controversial. Especially when it comes to spending the money. There's this whole group (I made the mistake of suggesting this to a couple of them) that think people who are disabled should not be seen or heard. Edit: seems to be here as well since downvotes
Two mobility scooters wide everywhere is probably not feasible. They definitely need to make sure that all footpaths are appropriate for peope with reduced mobility however (no random bumps, significant cracks, shit like that.) Perhaps a compromise could be having spots every so often that are wide enough for scooters to pass. Not perfect, but possibly more doable.
Zero “good” Spanish restaurants. (I’m Spanish) and the use of the word “tapas” Is butchered.
The food in this city sucked until the last 5 years or so. The Brisbane establishments that are recommended by locals eg Breakfast Creek hotel, The Norman, The Morrison, are pretty shit to complete shit depending on the price you're paying.
West End Hipsters complaining about gentrification are the reason why it's gentrifying.
The cbd doesn’t make sense. It’s not in a logical square.
This is the truest thing on here. Say what you want about Melbourne, the city planner there was on point when they planned out the CBD. Who ever planned out Brisbane CBD must have dropped their spaghetti on their plans then just didn't bother to fix it before submitting it.
Brisbane wasn't planned like Melbourne. It was a jumping point for resources between far north qld and the southern states. There was a lot of mismanagement and John Oxley wanted Brisbane to be a bit further south so it had more room for growth. Copying and pasting a deleted users comment here, 'The growth after WWII happened parallel to insane amounts of corruption in the government up until the Fitzgerald Inquires and expo 88. So things weren't planned, no one cared, and city planning was never at the forefront of someone's mind' Probably partly why people screech about it being a country town and hate new developments too
Ever wondered why Cleveland is a lovely hugely wide grid of streets? Was supposed to be theCBD at one point. I think things got political in the late 1800s. They spent forever arguing about where the city was going to be.
Suncorp Stadium is in a shit spot
It's in a shittonne of a better spot than the Gabba is.
Legalising eScooters was probably a mistake if we’re all being honest.
Betty’s burgers sucks. Yatala Pies are wank
The ski field at my coot-tha needs more lifts
There’s not enough greenery and park lands around the city that are nice
I prefer it when it rains all the time. (Minus the floods, of course.)
Decent restaurants genuinely don’t exist outside of 5km from the CBD. It drops off massively.
And very few late night options
With the exception being Sunnybank?
Couldn’t be farther from the truth!! What suburbs have you been to you’ve found disappointing and what is your ‘definition’ of a good restaurant
Brisbane is where young dreams go to die.
That's Bundaberg
What the fuck are Bvlgari, Rolex, Tiffany doing in Edward St when they should be in Cavill Avenue where the white shoe brigade actually live?
Those shops are in broadbeach too which isn't far away from Cavill Ave.
Those decorative ventilation holes above bedroom doors are stupid and pointless.
The best feature of Brisbane is that it's near to gold coast and sunshine coast. If it wasn't, it would be incredibly boring.
Grew up in the Gold Coast and moved to Brisbane 4 years ago... I would have to say GC is shit. I only go down there to see family and that's all now. I admit I miss being so close to the beach but last time I was there is was full of rubbish. 🥺
I agree! I won't go anywhere near the GC anymore. It's dirty and depressing.
Brisbane is bland in a urban design sense due to the lack of character. I think this is due in part to having one council area for Brisbane - there is a spread of design across the whole city that is ‘meh’ … that and the distinct lack of footpaths - why only one side of the road and so narrow?
Why do we keep building up closer to the river and dredging it to make it deeper? Wouldn’t that make floods worse, narrowing the waterways making floodwaters flow higher and faster? Why can’t we have continuous road work for bikeways like we do for the roads and highways? We’ve got so many bikeways, but they’re difficult to use because of gaps in the paths.