The real problem is that in it's history, developers would pay off the Brisbane city council and then design the suburbs and street names whichever way they fancied. Morningside has streets named after poets and Strathpine after composers. Even with the lack of town planning (hitting every red traffic light); I enjoy my life here. I can fish without a license, ride a motorbike year round, and pinch mangos, bananas and avocados from the neighbour's trees.
I know in shire formally known as Pine Rivers, there was a council law that stipulated that new roads had to be named after historical names and events, etc. But you are dead right, developers and NIMBYs have alot to answer for the ducking up of the transport infrastructure in Brisbane. The population was accurately predicted, and good designs like ringroads were proposed, but eventually all got shat on.
Obviously the street names are old, but I question 2 streets in Kalangur that run next to each other, left side of Anzac AVE northbound... You've got McNeil (a one off Futurama character) and McBain (everyone's favourite Simpsons action star!) Perhaps a time traveling, Matt Groening fan, council planner? Yeah I know that's ridiculous, but surely I'm not the only one who noticed...
I moved from Russia to Brisbane, I immigrated there... For every girl I met that bullied me... Someone truly special made me feel welcome, from a best friend to a random. I openly and proudly call myself Australian now, thanks Brisbane
My Old Man used to say that Brisbanes roads were laid out by a drunk Bullockie with drunk bullocks. The William Jolly, Grey St Bridge is actually a steel structure. Notable for being the very first bridge erected using the now common drill through Island technique, as opposed to Cassion. The Capt Cook bridge is the most trafficked bridge in the Southern Hemisphere. Gateway bridge is the tallest stressed concrete structure in the world. Indoorpilly bridge was made from the left over bits of The Sydney Harbour Bridge. And The Story Bridge was built by the same Engineer who built the Sydney Harbour Bridge, An outstanding bloke from Sandgate, educated at Nudgee College, John Bradfield. We does knows about bridges in Queensland.
The problem is allowing university educated ppl to doing the planning "educated idiots" use zero logic. They want roads to look good instead of actually function. Speed limits are too low on most roads which causes more congestion on top of not having synched lights
@@joshchambers5163 synched lights are great, problem with them is they only work if they are timed for vehicles travelling over the speed limit. It all turns to crap when a geriatric in a Corolla with all the time in the world between now and their death drive at 10km/h under the speed limit. I know because I'm a local truck driver and I see it constantly... and yes the #1 car most likely to be holding everyone up is a Corolla, and there is very often an elderly driver.
@@craigtrimble238 one from Morningside to Newstead would be good... but NIMBYs there would have a meltdown. You have to wait for all the retired boomers with 50 investment properties each to cark it. Plus any more bridges closer to the Gateway Bridge would be competing with its tolls.
That is everywhere now, everywhere. The so called war on drugs has given drugs high value and made it all far worse. Now far worse drugs are here on masse. Even medical marihuana does not undercut the black market, so illicit pot still flourishes, because the laws give illegal drugs high value. Like a dog chasing it's own tail, endlessly. 😮
I know the Victorians causing crashes is supposed to be a joke, but my first ever crash was in Brisbane with a Victorian who didn't understand how double lane roundabouts work
@@tehjaxor they're much more efficient when there is high traffic flow. Just because you're a bad driver doesn't mean they should remove things that are hard for you to understand. They're really not that complicated
Somewhere to flush your money away... 😉 Besides that, casinos are great for employment though, each of the Star casinos employ well over a 1000 people each, and provide excellent casual work at night time for uni students. People are going to gamble no matter what you do, at least at a casino you can gamble on tables that have much better odds than pokies.
Lived there for years at Uni, always got stuck in dead ends or loops on the road that I could not avoid. I never worked out the roads, if you want a good design for a maze then just use Bris and try to get from one side to the other ! And the signage in the tunnels is designed to send you miles down the wrong highway into Ipswich or further ! Nightmare,,,
Need a don't go to woodride, inala or ipswich videos to truly delve into brisbanes shitness. The ipswich train line is great. The anxiety of constantly assessing your environment for drug fiends, potential muggers or other threats helps distract you from your real problems
Good thing self-defence weapons are outlawed in Australia... we wouldn't want to make it too difficult for our _wonderful cultural enriching_ newcomers.
@@DONG-TOTO It is however a fairly accurate description though, if you think about the mall in Fortitude Valley in the wee hours of Saturday night/Sunday morning! I have seen quite a few Alice's trying to find their way back to "Wonderland", or lost down a rabbit hole! you often see a "Tinkerbell" or 2 floating around, and a whole bunch of "Goofey's"!
Lived in four Australian capital cities and Briz is easily the best. If this video discourages those from down south or anywhere else from migrating here then good. I like it here like it is thanks.
Packing, on my way too! On a serious note those things shouldn’t be stuff to make you move in/out! Talk about Strady, Goldie, Moreton Bay, weather etc!
Brisbane city planners right now: "There's a cost of living crisis, a housing crisis, and the supermarket chains are price gouging everything, I know let's build another footbridge."
Brisbane used to have the most extensive public transport system in Australia. Then the Mayor of the time Clem Jones visited Los Angeles and was blown away by the idea of a car centric city. He came home and set about creating modern day Brisbane.
I just found your channel (YT recommended your Caboolture video to me) and you've got a wicked sense of humour! New sub. PLEASE do a video on Townsville sometime.
Geez, don't make a promotional video for Brisbane. We already have enough people flooding in from the other states, as it is. This is video is accurate though, Brisbane is like a dirty pleasure. lol.
Amusing diatribe. I must agree about Brisbane's low population density and poor public transport infrastructure. Despite Brisbane's faults it's still a nice place to live. I think some people may have taken this video too seriously.The humidity in Brisbane was far too high for me, hence my move south to cooler climes.
You're right in saying that William Jolly is the AU Falcon of bridges, however the art deco style, Hornibrook's utility design and being the only FREE bridge connecting the inner west means it's top tier in my eyes. The shittest bridge in Bridgbane is going to be Go-Between and second Gateway until they're put back into public ownership
I went to Brisbane in December, and I had a wonderful time. The River cat and the kittycats are fabulous. That's the way to get around. The botanic gardens are beautiful. QPAC is splendid. I adored the Wheel of Brisbane. There are scooters you can hire to get about. A segway tour is also lots of fun. The beach is hours away, but they have a man-made beach which is fine in a pinch. Loved it. 10/10 would recommend. It doesn't cost an arm and a leg to stay there, either! Also, there are a number of truly wonderful places to eat in Fortitude Valley, but bring your credit card!
@@russellclay9506As a brit I don't think that would necessarily be a bad judgement call. Considering most people's geography is subpar anyways there's enough there to keep people distracted and learn less. Plus it's mountains better than Brum. Which is a real cesspit.
JCU is based in Townsville, 1000km north of Brisbane. Did you attend some satellite campus in Brisbane? A small city centre would be a fair accusation of Townsville, less so Brisbane!
Brisbane does make you go nuts. Don't know why 😅 Lack of stimulation and community spirit is probably why.. not many community hubs or cool museums or fun things to do 😢
Fortitude valley! Having bulk music venues in one area is cool.. plus I like the houses on stilts 🤷♂️ I’m from Perth, only been to brissy to play gigs and always had a good time.. this vid is however, is bloody great 👌 ✅ 😂
@@chris-xl3qxI am very proud of how Toowoomba has so successfully integrated the Sudanese refugees into the community and what delghtful members of the community the majority of them are. Sure there are occasional problems but you find that in every section and strata of the population. The fact that Toowoomba's approach to support is being studied and copied says a lot. Also, given the Sudanese make up less than .015% of the total Toowoomba population as at 2020, I think calling it Sth Sudan is a bit of a stretch.
I loved Brisbane best in the early 90's, it just got a makeover after Expo'88 and was fresh and exciting. One great thing are the many lookouts, if you know where to find them.
I call 1 William street the thick boy (also known as the tower of power) King George Square the “burning hot plate” or the “concrete slab” and I call uptown, downhill (or most of the time, like everyone else, the Myer Centre) And I like to call Parliament , the circus.
If any thing in this State demonstrates the contempt of the ruling elite to a properly functioning Parliament - the approval of an Executive Government Building to cast a shadow over the Historic precinct of Parliament House is it. Our elected dictatorship in a one house parliament ensures skills of communication, negotiation and compromise are something foreign to Queensland. So too is recognising the difference between being ruled by MPs who only represent their wealthy donors and tell their electorate what they should think and say, aided by the one paper town Courier Mail eg look a functioning democracy viz representation who's MPs are their employees pursuing their electorates interests first
Myer has pulled out of the Myer Centre, such is the state of the bricks-and-mortar retail trade. It's a shoddily-constructed building from the furious 1980s property boom and stores in its upper levels have always struggled. For stunning retail arcades, check out the historic Strand further down Queen St and Rowes off Edward St.
@@VanillaMacaron551 In my opinion, Myer has no future in the CBD. They announced they were going to search for a new CBD location but given the current Market in SEQ, if I were them I would stick to the big Suburban Westfields.
@@VanillaMacaron551 also the layout is crap and confusing even for a regular visitor like me (I have some funny stores of somehow getting lost in that place)
I was at Southbank on the weekend. What I really noticed is the car noise from the riverside expressway! Southbank would be so pleasant if it wasn’t for a freeway through the middle of the city.
I’ve been living in Brisbane for about 6 years from Melbourne. I’ve never understood why there are soooo many main roads running through and around the city with massive stretches of nothing. Have no idea how they will improve the layout of this city for better foot traffic and night life.
Three things I love about Brisbane: there are great dog-friendly walking areas all over the place. The city cats, the fairly safe CBD as compared to a lot of other cities.
This bloke really loves Brisbane. I mean there's negatives about everywhere but Brizvegas is central to Gold coast,Sunshine coast,Stradbroke,etc.Nice climate,relaxed atmosphere.
I’m from sunshine coast, only time I go too Brisbane is for queen street/ fortitude/ and the museum. Apart from that too much stress going there every weekend
I did that and I had a guy jump in my back yard then 2 minutes later the police jumped in my back yard. Unlike Sydney and Melbourne, Brisbane put their housing commission in every suburb. Oh, and if you think your house won't flood, it's not a matter of if it's when. 200ml of rain in 3 hours will come
Yeh like a little pocket where you can get everything you need without ever having to cross Sandgate Rd to the east or Gympie Rd to the west. It was great before Toombul shopping centre was destroyed by flood - it was easy to access by foot and bike, crossing under Sandgate Rd.
As a blow in from the Northern Latitudes, I love Brisbane unabashedly and unironically. Yeah, it has its problems, but so does every place. Thanks for the love letter.
I'm from Sydney and I'm an It Project Manager and I've been up to Brissy for work a bit, mostly at the Casino doing the surveillance system and doing a ticketing system thing for Queensland Rail. I like the people, pretty relaxed, mostly just like you, but yeah, pretty boring. I stayed at Southbank once and they could've filmed a post-apocalypse movie there, it was fucking DEAD, no one around at night. The traffic's a fucking nightmare, especially trying to get to the airport, you need to jump in a cab at 3pm because you'll never make it after work.
Southbank apartments are filled with rich Asian uni students... or are empty because they are owned by rich Asian speculative property investors... of course the nightlife will be dead.
Not necessarily true sir. You need to use the tunnel, then even in very heavy traffic it shouldn't take more than 30mins. Brisbane gets busy on Friday and Saturday nights. Also, one of best parts of Brisbane is proximity to the beautiful Gold Coast. With the new casino, we'll really be Brisvegas.
@@dontbefatuousjeffrey2494 At least the first one is in a gob-smackingly ornate and beautiful historic sandstone building that hopefully will one day be reclaimed for a sensible and respectful purpose.
@@VanillaMacaron551 Ikr? My grandfather worked there when it was the actual Treasury building. We once took him to see what they'd done with the place. Once. 😭
Sydney's the same. In recent years it's been getting better very slowly with investment in public transport infrastructure like the light rail and the metro but there's nothing to do here other than play pokies
That's because the government killed the night life that Sydney was once famous for. Mind you, Brisbane's Fortitude Valley (somewhat equivalent to the old Kings Cross) is still alive and kicking. But that looks like it's on it's death knell from all the noise complaints from the NIMBYs that moved into the surrounding new apartments.
I agree, I love the Kurilpa bridge design. And the city, to visit at least, no way I want to live there though, too old for that hassle. Happy to settle in the sticks halfway between Brisbane and the Gold Coast so I can sample both occasionally.
For such a long time, I was fixated on visiting Australia, though only three cities really stood out to me: Sydney, Melbourne, and Perth. There don't seem to be much to Brisbane (which in all fairness applies to several cities in America). All I got else to say is it must feel great hosting what might be the last ever Olympics
Once the Olympics are underway in the next 8 years, I'm sure a lot of people overseas would be remarking on how weird our city skyline looks. Ever since Meriton built those two huge things on either end of it a decade ago, it's looked quite inconsistent, a bit like a bar chart measuring how many people called Gertrude there are in every major city in the world alphabetically or something. I saw the Melbourne skyline from a distance a few years ago and to me it looked fine.
That was fun!😃 I have visited Brisbane 3 times,well the outskirts and surrounds. I have never been a city person, so the little I saw of Brisbane itself was just hard to navigate strange roads and a lot of bridges.
@@timhinchcliffe5372 Thanks mate. Wikipedia just gave me the lowdown and a whole bunch of life lessons on this type of lifestyle. Feel sorry for the guy though.
I miss old Brisbane city and the old town square with the fountains. Brisbane was beautiful, that stopped when the alp goons in state and local government sold the town to their construction friends. After that, the city turned into a slab of brutalist absurdity that would make any Soviet official proud.
The big brutalist monoliths that are QPAC and the Qld Art Gallery at South Bank were built in the Joh / LNP era, you dummy. Also, the council has been LNP dominated for a very long time, most of the past four decades at least. ALP may be friends with construction unions, but there isn't a Brisbane resident alive who isn't aware that the local Lib-Nats ARE the local developers and building industry. You are talking pure partisan mistruths.
Oath mate! My one complaint is the Town Hall Square. It used to be a beautiful green lawned oasis with a few shady trees where office workers could eat their lunch. They concreted & paved it over. Now it's a f...ing furnace under the hot summer sun.
As someone whosed lived in brisbane i have two areas id like to see like the Caboolture video. 1. Ipswich (The whole Area) i could write a pdf on Ipswich its like a mini Brisbane. 2. Logan (Id pick Woodrige but that me) place is just really shot. And dont even get me started about the Public Transport in both Areas
The biggest thing I hate about Brisbane is just the cars man. Roads take up so much space and are unpleasant as hell. It also drives so much funding away from public transport and walkable paths, and makes the immediate areas around then unlivable. Our traffic is so bad because for most people public transport or walking just isn't viable or as viable, and it makes our streets look like actual shit. If we just weren't car centric, Brisbane would easily be the best city in Australia. I do not mind a cars on the road, what I do mind is the obsessive spamming of 6 lane roads everywhere with cars absolutely flooding them. Or streets that you do not even have side walks.
I lived on Ipswich road and can confirm peak hour traffic is all day, all night and everyday of the week. The upside is the traffic and constant ambulance sirens helped to block out the endless amount of crack heads constantly fighting or chasing each other up and down the street
@timhinchcliffe5372 I do think eventually self defense laws will revert to household rights to bear arms due to recent youth crime invasions. When one push its upstanding citizens too far, they are asking for reprisals.
I went to Brisbane last year (from New Zealand). The helpful locals started listing all the 'shit' suburbs I shouldn't visit because of all the drug addicts and crime. It was a long list 😂
@ACDZ123 - you can't make friends in Adelaide unless you work, I'm the only dumpster diver on TH-cam in Adelaide, most calls to lifeline are in Adelaide over loneliness, it's just a country town believe me
My Daughter is an artist and I spent her Uni years encouraging her to move to Melbourne - she moved there 5 years ago and is so happy 🎉 Brisbane is not the place for arty creative people at all.
@@le13579 There's heaps of Establishment / old money in Brisbane, heaps of artists and heaps of galleries. QUT has built much of its rep on the "Creative Industries"; there's a thriving animation / video game industry and supporting higher education. There's a thriving movie production industry on the GC. Qld Theatre Co is brilliant and there are other big local theatre companies. GOMA has attracted some global blockbuster shows. Methinks you talk bollocks.
Wait until you hear about the global trends of pedestrianisation, urbanism and the "15 minute" lifestyle. Then wait until you hear how areas following these principles are highly desirable and increasingly valuable, and how Americans and others who have only ever known a car-based lifestyle often choose to holiday in these cities so they can experience a walkable lifestyle, around streets where cars are either banned or strictly limited. Check out what's happened in Amsterdam and other Dutch cities in the past 30 years, and the work currently under way in Paris to eliminate cars from certain areas. Even some parts of the US are tearing down freeways and replacing them with plazas, open malls and gardens. It will be a good thing if one day they block Edward St to private vehicles completely and turn it into an upmarket pedestrian-only mall right down to the Botanic Gardens, and do the same to a bunch of other streets in that quarter near the gardens.
@@VanillaMacaron551 There was a fair bit of kerfuffle when Queen St Mall was opened. People complaining you could not longer drive all the way down Queen St.
West End wouldn’t make my top 5. Maybe because I grew up here I find it easy to get around. I agree about the valley what a hole. The suburbs and fringe suburbs are mostly awesome. The bay and beaches are an easy drive and the people are friendly. The bike paths are some of the best in Australia and we have amazing parks, golf courses and schooling. Love the place and every time I travel I can’t wait to get back home.
Alot of people wont probably agree but i miss some of the old graffiti from the 90's that stayed for years only to be covered when they did a massive crackdown cleanup. Especially the huge BLAST memorial peice that was ontop of a building and you could see it when you caught the train past soith brisbane station.
There was a plan for Brisbane to have grand boulevards. It was Governor Gipps who decided Brisbane would never be a major city and with that crossed them off the plans. "all plans for reserves, open space or riverfront areas were eliminated and allotments were reduced from 0.25 acres to 5 allotments to the acre (Adelaide Town Planning Conference and Exhibition, 1918). In fact, following a 1842 visit by Governor Gipps, the width of principal streets such as Queen Street were narrowed from 140 links (28.2 metres) to 100 links (20.1 metres) as wide streets were deemed unnecessary for such an inconsequential settlement (Mellor 1959)." As a person originally from Gippsland I offer my apologies.
Been here 20+ years and the traffic in rush hour (4 hours each way) is so horrifically bad. Going from the Ipswich mwy to Centenary.. enjoy the gridlock. Going south along the Pacific hwy after Eight Mile Plains...enjoy. Going North or South along the Bruce hwy on the weekend...enjoy! Too many vehicles...too many people.
@@le13579 I live on the Sunshine Coast. I grew up in Mackay, but now I have had an outdoor job for the last 8 years I've learnt to absolutely hate the heat haha. Also the Brisbane gets hotter in summer compared to the tropics because of the urban heat island effect.
What the hell are you going on about?? Brisbane is one of the most livable cities in the world! Anyone will tell you that during the Covid crisis, if you were living in Brisbane, it was the place to be. If you've lived in Sydney or Melbourne you will find Brisbane traffic a breeze! You can typically get anywhere in half an hour. Apart from peak times. I've always said, the only 2 downsides to Brisbane is the heat and the bogans. That's it!
@@jimslimshady2467 yes I've been around most of Europe and America. Have you been to India? Why do you think so many people are desperate to get into this country
@@zigggyyyc7342 I've been to Mumbai - it's an absolute hole. However, I take your point, when compared to holes like Mumbai, Brisbane looks great. But that's hardly an achievement.
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Goodna! Oh dear god do Goodna. It's an open mental health asylum!
Lmfao this is hilarious!!!!!
You trying to discourage immigrants from coming to where you are. Don't come, It's terrible,
The funniest thing about Brisbane are the old canons next to the Naval Museum south of Southbank... they are aimed at the Queensland State Parliament.
I never noticed that before, I'll laugh when I pass there now.
Actually the whole idea was set and built that way on purpose which is such a Brisbane thing !! Yeah wow you do you Brisbane lol😅
@@liamboase6591 I had a feeling it was intentional.
😅😅😅😅
Shhhh. We haven't sent the signal yet.
If this video is a tactic to stop southerners from moving up here, I approve wholeheartedly
I’m very annoyed Qlders are patriotic. Against southerners not immigrants what’s wrong with brain damagers?
Yep stay away from Brisbane
It's pronounced Suvverners, but you'd know that if you were really from Qld. /S
@@peege8574 rugba leeg ay bruva love me a xxxx i bleed maroon
The Brisbane channel just did a video saying we're like 5 away from los Angeles for worst traffic in the world
You left out the two best things about Brisbane: it’s not Sydney and it’s not Melbourne.
Haha, gangsta comment 🤙
It’s my favourite thing about it ❤
Yeah, but there's just one downside........ It's still Brisbane
Yea Bruv
Yea because it's not shit
laughed but it's not only a brisbane problem. australia's travel infrastructure is a fucking joke as a whole.
How come every country has fast trains accept us
@@Ravioligreen180b Because those places have higher population cities and less distance between those cities. It's simple economics.
Hear! Hear!
Perth’s train system is excellent.
@@Ravioligreen180b Other countries have education systems that teach people to spell, as well!
When I first moved to Australia, I lived in Sydney for 10 years, then moved to Brisbane. For this reason I think Brisbane is paradise.
Sydney is fkin hectic
@@lellamas2778
It is one of the most unfriendly places I have been to in my life.
I grew up in Brisbane and later moved to Hobart, for this reason Hobart feels like paradise
@@AndScrambledEggsit is unfriendly or apathetic. But otherwise good train network, malls and good weather😮
The real problem is that in it's history, developers would pay off the Brisbane city council and then design the suburbs and street names whichever way they fancied. Morningside has streets named after poets and Strathpine after composers. Even with the lack of town planning (hitting every red traffic light); I enjoy my life here. I can fish without a license, ride a motorbike year round, and pinch mangos, bananas and avocados from the neighbour's trees.
A lot of places are built in flood zones, always great for insurance.
@@lucasroe2878 Yeah my friend is in Rocklea. Flooded 3 times in the last 10ish years. Waiting for the council to buy them out.
I know in shire formally known as Pine Rivers, there was a council law that stipulated that new roads had to be named after historical names and events, etc.
But you are dead right, developers and NIMBYs have alot to answer for the ducking up of the transport infrastructure in Brisbane. The population was accurately predicted, and good designs like ringroads were proposed, but eventually all got shat on.
Obviously the street names are old, but I question 2 streets in Kalangur that run next to each other, left side of Anzac AVE northbound...
You've got McNeil (a one off Futurama character) and McBain (everyone's favourite Simpsons action star!)
Perhaps a time traveling, Matt Groening fan, council planner?
Yeah I know that's ridiculous, but surely I'm not the only one who noticed...
A true aussie
I moved from Russia to Brisbane, I immigrated there... For every girl I met that bullied me... Someone truly special made me feel welcome, from a best friend to a random. I openly and proudly call myself Australian now, thanks Brisbane
Best of you go back to Russia and stop invading more countries like you have Thailand and Bali .
so are you a commie, then?
I'm glad you've learned to call Brisbane, home ☺️
Go Home
@@Mark-ok8ss dont be rude
My Old Man used to say that Brisbanes roads were laid out by a drunk Bullockie with drunk bullocks.
The William Jolly, Grey St Bridge is actually a steel structure. Notable for being the very first bridge erected using the now common drill through Island technique, as opposed to Cassion.
The Capt Cook bridge is the most trafficked bridge in the Southern Hemisphere.
Gateway bridge is the tallest stressed concrete structure in the world.
Indoorpilly bridge was made from the left over bits of The Sydney Harbour Bridge.
And The Story Bridge was built by the same Engineer who built the Sydney Harbour Bridge,
An outstanding bloke from Sandgate, educated at Nudgee College, John Bradfield.
We does knows about bridges in Queensland.
Your old man might be right
They should of let him build at least a dozen more Brisbane River crossings. Starting with 4 bridges between the Gateway and Story Bridge
The problem is allowing university educated ppl to doing the planning "educated idiots" use zero logic. They want roads to look good instead of actually function. Speed limits are too low on most roads which causes more congestion on top of not having synched lights
@@joshchambers5163 synched lights are great, problem with them is they only work if they are timed for vehicles travelling over the speed limit. It all turns to crap when a geriatric in a Corolla with all the time in the world between now and their death drive at 10km/h under the speed limit.
I know because I'm a local truck driver and I see it constantly... and yes the #1 car most likely to be holding everyone up is a Corolla, and there is very often an elderly driver.
@@craigtrimble238 one from Morningside to Newstead would be good... but NIMBYs there would have a meltdown. You have to wait for all the retired boomers with 50 investment properties each to cark it.
Plus any more bridges closer to the Gateway Bridge would be competing with its tolls.
"a convenient place for crackheads to have seizures next to 4yos" nearly made me fall off my chair!! farkn incredible !!
That is everywhere now, everywhere. The so called war on drugs has given drugs high value and made it all far worse. Now far worse drugs are here on masse. Even medical marihuana does not undercut the black market, so illicit pot still flourishes, because the laws give illegal drugs high value. Like a dog chasing it's own tail, endlessly. 😮
That's just urban Australia, mate 😅
I know the Victorians causing crashes is supposed to be a joke, but my first ever crash was in Brisbane with a Victorian who didn't understand how double lane roundabouts work
most queenslanders can't use a roundabout here either, so you probably just won the jackpot on that lol. drivers are getting bad everywhere...
To be fair, double lane roundabouts are shit and shouldn't exist
@@tehjaxor they're much more efficient when there is high traffic flow. Just because you're a bad driver doesn't mean they should remove things that are hard for you to understand. They're really not that complicated
Victorians are the worst in Queensland. I'm not from Australia. Fact.
@@tehjaxor Skill issue learn to drive.
Absolutely wonderful. Am I the only one who thinks that the new casino looks like a giant toilet?
Somewhere to flush your money away... 😉
Besides that, casinos are great for employment though, each of the Star casinos employ well over a 1000 people each, and provide excellent casual work at night time for uni students. People are going to gamble no matter what you do, at least at a casino you can gamble on tables that have much better odds than pokies.
@@timhinchcliffe5372 I hate that the centre of your town is a casino.
@@timhinchcliffe5372 I knew a Mandarin-speaking uni student who was hired to escort the family members of big gamblers around town on shopping trips.
Well the new casino's going to need a nickname. The giant toilet seems pretty appropriate.
@@VanillaMacaron551 We have The Big Pineapple, now The Big Dunny...
Lived there for years at Uni, always got stuck in dead ends or loops on the road that I could not avoid. I never worked out the roads, if you want a good design for a maze then just use Bris and try to get from one side to the other ! And the signage in the tunnels is designed to send you miles down the wrong highway into Ipswich or further ! Nightmare,,,
I love Brisbane, just wish everyone would stop moving here, getting so crowded for the infrastructure
Haha. Brisbane 2 million inhabitants compares to Melbourne 5 million people
When did it start looking like Malaysia
Perth too
Struggling with 2 .5 million people ? Wait until you get a Melbourne/Sydney population lol
Blame Dan Andrews for making Victoria unliveable.
Need a don't go to woodride, inala or ipswich videos to truly delve into brisbanes shitness.
The ipswich train line is great. The anxiety of constantly assessing your environment for drug fiends, potential muggers or other threats helps distract you from your real problems
Good thing self-defence weapons are outlawed in Australia... we wouldn't want to make it too difficult for our _wonderful cultural enriching_ newcomers.
Born in woodridge, grew up in Inala & lived in Ipswich to now live in Caboolture. Lol
@@inalaboyy that's the bogan quadrella.
@coldpotatoes2556 almost nobody gets admitted to inpatient care anymore. Budget cuts
@@inalaboyyCabbo 😅😅
Bris-Vegas?? No, no my friend.....Brisneyland!
nooooooo
@@DONG-TOTO 🤣
@@DONG-TOTO It is however a fairly accurate description though, if you think about the mall in Fortitude Valley in the wee hours of Saturday night/Sunday morning! I have seen quite a few Alice's trying to find their way back to "Wonderland", or lost down a rabbit hole! you often see a "Tinkerbell" or 2 floating around, and a whole bunch of "Goofey's"!
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
What does that make lpswich?
The battered middle child with RSD due to neglect or the place you have to drive past to get outta Brissy.
What the heck is BrisVegas? I’m perplexed. Don’t get it
Lived in four Australian capital cities and Briz is easily the best. If this video discourages those from down south or anywhere else from migrating here then good. I like it here like it is thanks.
It’s too late I’m coming up >:)
Packing, on my way too!
On a serious note those things shouldn’t be stuff to make you move in/out! Talk about Strady, Goldie, Moreton Bay, weather etc!
Brisbane city planners right now: "There's a cost of living crisis, a housing crisis, and the supermarket chains are price gouging everything, I know let's build another footbridge."
'and lets fund building a casino for cultural enrichment'
@@haych27 And that casino won't even be able to open properly because it severely understaffed due to the cost of living crisis lol
@@haych27 and make it the only legal place you can smoke inside.
Brisbane used to have the most extensive public transport system in Australia. Then the Mayor of the time Clem Jones visited Los Angeles and was blown away by the idea of a car centric city. He came home and set about creating modern day Brisbane.
I just found your channel (YT recommended your Caboolture video to me) and you've got a wicked sense of humour! New sub. PLEASE do a video on Townsville sometime.
Geez, don't make a promotional video for Brisbane. We already have enough people flooding in from the other states, as it is. This is video is accurate though, Brisbane is like a dirty pleasure. lol.
Been here 40 years. Accurate and well summarised 👍 shits me but still best place to live.
We have the weather.❤
5:08 wait that thing has an actual name?? Everyone I’ve ever talked to just calls it the stick bridge
Amusing diatribe. I must agree about Brisbane's low population density and poor public transport infrastructure. Despite Brisbane's faults it's still a nice place to live. I think some people may have taken this video too seriously.The humidity in Brisbane was far too high for me, hence my move south to cooler climes.
The weather? I moved away because it's so hot and humid year round.
I agree. Except I didn't leave, I just endure it.
10 months of HUMIDITY!! June and July relief low relatively humidity
@@zed5129I'm pink/sunburn 9 months of the year
The humidity still kills me
Modern aircon is cheap to run and costs nothing at all to run during the day if you have rooftop solar panels. Perfect synchronicity.
As horrible as it is for driving, getting around on a e-scooter is sooo good.
The escooter is a great pub crawl modus of transport.
cycling be pretty good in Brisbane i have to admit.
Music a bit too loud to hear what you are saying
I'm from Sydney and my Family wants to move to Pullenvale in Brisbane, anyone now what it's like there?
Very nice actually. Of course very boring too but it's the suburbs
@@masterp.o Cool! Do you know what the travel experience is like to the CBD considering it's boring?
Boring AF but kinda pretty. A mix between rural and suburban living. The closest Sydney equivalent is probably Dural.
@@vocodr2667 lol I live right next to Dural
You're right in saying that William Jolly is the AU Falcon of bridges, however the art deco style, Hornibrook's utility design and being the only FREE bridge connecting the inner west means it's top tier in my eyes. The shittest bridge in Bridgbane is going to be Go-Between and second Gateway until they're put back into public ownership
For me, Kurilpa Bridge and then the new pedestrian bridge in front of the casino.
Your busiest rush hour is like a Sunday morning in Manila where everyone stays home. You have no idea what traffic is.
Manila makes 2 lane roads and calls them a "highway"
I went to Brisbane in December, and I had a wonderful time. The River cat and the kittycats are fabulous. That's the way to get around. The botanic gardens are beautiful. QPAC is splendid. I adored the Wheel of Brisbane. There are scooters you can hire to get about. A segway tour is also lots of fun. The beach is hours away, but they have a man-made beach which is fine in a pinch. Loved it. 10/10 would recommend. It doesn't cost an arm and a leg to stay there, either! Also, there are a number of truly wonderful places to eat in Fortitude Valley, but bring your credit card!
Damn, a sane person posting a sensible comment.
Soooo, you stayed in the CBD? Brisbane is huge. Its like you went to Britain and only saw London and thought it was great!
@@russellclay9506 yep, and of course, there's still South East Queensland to explore.
@@russellclay9506As a brit I don't think that would necessarily be a bad judgement call. Considering most people's geography is subpar anyways there's enough there to keep people distracted and learn less. Plus it's mountains better than Brum. Which is a real cesspit.
If i move to QLD from NT, will i be treated like a victorian?
Nope
Territorians are kinda like Queenslanders - but if we were coffee, you'd be a double shot.
I am from Azerbaijan and I did my first master's degree at James Cook University, Brisbane. It is a nice city. But just city center is a bit small.
JCU is based in Townsville, 1000km north of Brisbane. Did you attend some satellite campus in Brisbane? A small city centre would be a fair accusation of Townsville, less so Brisbane!
@@VanillaMacaron551 Yeah. It is just one building in the Queen street.
whats the name of that jazzy beat playing in the background
Brisbane does make you go nuts. Don't know why 😅 Lack of stimulation and community spirit is probably why.. not many community hubs or cool museums or fun things to do 😢
Fortitude valley! Having bulk music venues in one area is cool.. plus I like the houses on stilts 🤷♂️ I’m from Perth, only been to brissy to play gigs and always had a good time.. this vid is however, is bloody great 👌 ✅ 😂
You missed one Kurilpa bridge fact that is totally on theme. The design was inspired by stamped out ciggys in an ashtray. I love it too! Top vid!
God I hope that's true
@@DONG-TOTO it was in an interview with the designer with a local paper. I'll see if i can find it
I thought the design was inspired by a fishing trawler washed ashore after a cyclone.
@@timhinchcliffe5372 I always thought the design was ship mast inspired also. Relooked at photos and can't really see cigs at all😂
That's like Seattle's Space Needle - locals say it's a warning sign that lots of junkies live nearby. 🤣🤣
Please do Toowoomba next hahha
@user-lw2ck1dr3y Toowoomba is definitely not better than where I live or as I like to call Toowoomba South Sudan.
@user-lw2ck1dr3y spot on I'm so fortunate I don't live in Toowoomba or Brisbane
@user-lw2ck1dr3yToowoomba is a nice place it's the residents that suck
@@chris-xl3qxI am very proud of how Toowoomba has so successfully integrated the Sudanese refugees into the community and what delghtful members of the community the majority of them are. Sure there are occasional problems but you find that in every section and strata of the population. The fact that Toowoomba's approach to support is being studied and copied says a lot. Also, given the Sudanese make up less than .015% of the total Toowoomba population as at 2020, I think calling it Sth Sudan is a bit of a stretch.
@user-lw2ck1dr3y or crusty white crackercrackhead town- fking racist idiot
I loved Brisbane best in the early 90's, it just got a makeover after Expo'88 and was fresh and exciting. One great thing are the many lookouts, if you know where to find them.
Eildon Hill water reservoir at Windsor is among the best.
I call 1 William street the thick boy (also known as the tower of power) King George Square the “burning hot plate” or the “concrete slab” and I call uptown, downhill (or most of the time, like everyone else, the Myer Centre) And I like to call Parliament , the circus.
I've also heard it called Campbell's Cock. Lucky Newman
If any thing in this State demonstrates the contempt of the ruling elite to a properly functioning Parliament - the approval of an Executive Government Building to cast a shadow over the Historic precinct of Parliament House is it.
Our elected dictatorship in a one house parliament ensures skills of communication, negotiation and compromise are something foreign to Queensland. So too is recognising the difference between being ruled by MPs who only represent their wealthy donors and tell their electorate what they should think and say, aided by the one paper town Courier Mail eg look a functioning democracy viz representation who's MPs are their employees pursuing their electorates interests first
Myer has pulled out of the Myer Centre, such is the state of the bricks-and-mortar retail trade. It's a shoddily-constructed building from the furious 1980s property boom and stores in its upper levels have always struggled. For stunning retail arcades, check out the historic Strand further down Queen St and Rowes off Edward St.
@@VanillaMacaron551 In my opinion, Myer has no future in the CBD. They announced they were going to search for a new CBD location but given the current Market in SEQ, if I were them I would stick to the big Suburban Westfields.
@@VanillaMacaron551 also the layout is crap and confusing even for a regular visitor like me (I have some funny stores of somehow getting lost in that place)
I was at Southbank on the weekend. What I really noticed is the car noise from the riverside expressway! Southbank would be so pleasant if it wasn’t for a freeway through the middle of the city.
Agree with everything, tho West End is now mainly just the centrepoint of various halfway houses 😅
Yeah, its a bit of a dodgy area. Didnt understand why its rated so highly?
West end has been like that since the beginning of time
@@fair98fair dodgy for people who dont live here, I ve lived ere for 9 years and is awesomely the best neighbourhood in australia so far
Topped off by a beautiful brown river!
Brown river 🤮🤮. You can’t swim 🏊 due to bull sharks and ugly critters jellyfish etc
It's gotten better. It's kinda blue now and brownish blue
@@nicholascharles9625 Brownish blue with green and yellow. A sight to behold mate 🙂
@@rrocketmanWell it was a lot browner before they stopped dredging. I like the new, low-silt look better meself.
Brisbane city parking prices is insane
I think it's because of a congestion levy.
Don't drive to the city! Book online for cheap rates, especially outside weekdays/office hours.
I’ve been living in Brisbane for about 6 years from Melbourne. I’ve never understood why there are soooo many main roads running through and around the city with massive stretches of nothing. Have no idea how they will improve the layout of this city for better foot traffic and night life.
They won't. They don't want to so they won't
Nobody wants to invest in night life because the NIMBYs will whinge about the noise and kill it. They are doing it to the Valley right now.
Brilliant as usual. I run these videos at 0.75 speed because it makes them seem even more sardonic 👍
yeah slow down dong toto, u talk to fast
Three things I love about Brisbane: there are great dog-friendly walking areas all over the place. The city cats, the fairly safe CBD as compared to a lot of other cities.
This bloke really loves Brisbane. I mean there's negatives about everywhere but Brizvegas is central to Gold coast,Sunshine coast,Stradbroke,etc.Nice climate,relaxed atmosphere.
I think we'd like to be further from the Gold Coast. If Queensland is Australia's Florida, the Gold Coast is Brisbane's 😂😂
So it's close to everywhere you want to be instead, lol. That makes sense.
I’m from sunshine coast, only time I go too Brisbane is for queen street/ fortitude/ and the museum. Apart from that too much stress going there every weekend
Rhe secret to Brisbane living is find a nice bit with all u need and work and live nearby.
I did that and I had a guy jump in my back yard then 2 minutes later the police jumped in my back yard. Unlike Sydney and Melbourne, Brisbane put their housing commission in every suburb. Oh, and if you think your house won't flood, it's not a matter of if it's when. 200ml of rain in 3 hours will come
@elizabethclark8552 ha ha yeah done that. Still best city in Australia.
Yeh like a little pocket where you can get everything you need without ever having to cross Sandgate Rd to the east or Gympie Rd to the west. It was great before Toombul shopping centre was destroyed by flood - it was easy to access by foot and bike, crossing under Sandgate Rd.
@VanillaMacaron551 lol exactly.
I love river walks, southbank, bridge walks. Love winter in Brisbane.
😂😂😂, lived in Brisbane for 43yrs. Absolutely loved this vid mate👍. Well said.
As a blow in from the Northern Latitudes, I love Brisbane unabashedly and unironically. Yeah, it has its problems, but so does every place. Thanks for the love letter.
I also love that bridge. To me it looks like a ship graveyard where all the masts are sticking up above the water.
I'm from Sydney and I'm an It Project Manager and I've been up to Brissy for work a bit, mostly at the Casino doing the surveillance system and doing a ticketing system thing for Queensland Rail. I like the people, pretty relaxed, mostly just like you, but yeah, pretty boring. I stayed at Southbank once and they could've filmed a post-apocalypse movie there, it was fucking DEAD, no one around at night. The traffic's a fucking nightmare, especially trying to get to the airport, you need to jump in a cab at 3pm because you'll never make it after work.
Southbank apartments are filled with rich Asian uni students... or are empty because they are owned by rich Asian speculative property investors... of course the nightlife will be dead.
Not necessarily true sir.
You need to use the tunnel, then even in very heavy traffic it shouldn't take more than 30mins.
Brisbane gets busy on Friday and Saturday nights.
Also, one of best parts of Brisbane is proximity to the beautiful Gold Coast.
With the new casino, we'll really be Brisvegas.
@@TheKwodBearing in mind the first casino is why we started getting called BrisVegas in the first place
@@dontbefatuousjeffrey2494 At least the first one is in a gob-smackingly ornate and beautiful historic sandstone building that hopefully will one day be reclaimed for a sensible and respectful purpose.
@@VanillaMacaron551 Ikr? My grandfather worked there when it was the actual Treasury building. We once took him to see what they'd done with the place.
Once. 😭
Brisbane has 2 things i truly miss being in Melbourne.
Goldcoast cycling day trips and Sunday farmer's market @ Northey Street Organic Farm
The only thing I like about Brisbane being a disgusting Gold Coaster is the rock n roll bars
True, Gold Coast bars are soulless, and just play _whatever-new_ music in the pathetic attempt to get a crumb of tourist money.
could you do a video on Toowoomba? :) haha just so much ammunition
Sydney's the same. In recent years it's been getting better very slowly with investment in public transport infrastructure like the light rail and the metro but there's nothing to do here other than play pokies
That's because the government killed the night life that Sydney was once famous for.
Mind you, Brisbane's Fortitude Valley (somewhat equivalent to the old Kings Cross) is still alive and kicking. But that looks like it's on it's death knell from all the noise complaints from the NIMBYs that moved into the surrounding new apartments.
More unadventurous bullshit.
I agree, I love the Kurilpa bridge design. And the city, to visit at least, no way I want to live there though, too old for that hassle. Happy to settle in the sticks halfway between Brisbane and the Gold Coast so I can sample both occasionally.
100k subscriber special will be "don't go to Australia"
yeah, go to some shit hole like the USA instead.
For such a long time, I was fixated on visiting Australia, though only three cities really stood out to me: Sydney, Melbourne, and Perth. There don't seem to be much to Brisbane (which in all fairness applies to several cities in America). All I got else to say is it must feel great hosting what might be the last ever Olympics
Going down to brizzy is like fun .
Can’t say it’s much fun .
Come to think of it , no it’s not fun.
You might be monumentally unadventurous.
Once the Olympics are underway in the next 8 years, I'm sure a lot of people overseas would be remarking on how weird our city skyline looks. Ever since Meriton built those two huge things on either end of it a decade ago, it's looked quite inconsistent, a bit like a bar chart measuring how many people called Gertrude there are in every major city in the world alphabetically or something. I saw the Melbourne skyline from a distance a few years ago and to me it looked fine.
Gold.
As a local,
It's absolutely true what is been said in these videos,
It's a shame really,
People used to live not under but in the bridge?
A morbidly obese man lived in one of the flats in the bridge pylons and they had to get him out with a crane!!!😂😂😂true story.
Yes inside, the Indooroopilly one
@@maddyc2412 you'd hope the walls are soundproofed for traffic
You hate a classic looking bridge, but love the one that looks like a fishing trawler. 👍
That was fun!😃 I have visited Brisbane 3 times,well the outskirts and surrounds. I have never been a city person, so the little I saw of Brisbane itself was just hard to navigate strange roads and a lot of bridges.
Well you can pretty well always see the sun, so if you know how to work out the compass points, just navigate yourself that way.
Brisbane was ok back in the 80's and then it turned slowly into a shithole.
When Joh was in charge? Everyone I know was harassed by the police. Fun times
@elizabethclark8552 yes there was plenty of corruption in the police force too including Joh
I lived in Brisbane for 2 years. Coming from Wellington, NZ, the public transport kicks ass. I loved it and would move back in a heartbeat
please do redcliffe
The Kurilpa bridge WILL look good once all the scaffolding comes down.
West end died 10 years ago.
Was that when the lesbian vampire killed that guy?
More bullshit.
@@timhinchcliffe5372Nah you're talking about a west end musical.
@@dananajj guess you never heard of Tracey Wigginton.
@@timhinchcliffe5372 Thanks mate. Wikipedia just gave me the lowdown and a whole bunch of life lessons on this type of lifestyle. Feel sorry for the guy though.
Someone once told me that Brisbane is what the default setting would be on a city-simulator game.
I miss old Brisbane city and the old town square with the fountains. Brisbane was beautiful, that stopped when the alp goons in state and local government sold the town to their construction friends. After that, the city turned into a slab of brutalist absurdity that would make any Soviet official proud.
Conveniently forgetting Ol' Joh's warm relationship with the Deen Bros and decimation of historic, lovely buildings...
The big brutalist monoliths that are QPAC and the Qld Art Gallery at South Bank were built in the Joh / LNP era, you dummy. Also, the council has been LNP dominated for a very long time, most of the past four decades at least.
ALP may be friends with construction unions, but there isn't a Brisbane resident alive who isn't aware that the local Lib-Nats ARE the local developers and building industry.
You are talking pure partisan mistruths.
Started with Joh - every dirty concrete slab of shit is thanks to Joh and his goons
The Valley has some great music venues. Including Triffid witch is close by.
"The Judy" in Brunswick Street hosts some fantastic performers.
Holy sh*t this is accurate and thanks for actually being honest too.
Honest about traffic....hooray, the rest trivial or bullshit.
Oath mate! My one complaint is the Town Hall Square. It used to be a beautiful green lawned oasis with a few shady trees where office workers could eat their lunch. They concreted & paved it over. Now it's a f...ing furnace under the hot summer sun.
As someone whosed lived in brisbane i have two areas id like to see like the Caboolture video. 1. Ipswich (The whole Area) i could write a pdf on Ipswich its like a mini Brisbane. 2. Logan (Id pick Woodrige but that me) place is just really shot. And dont even get me started about the Public Transport in both Areas
The biggest thing I hate about Brisbane is just the cars man. Roads take up so much space and are unpleasant as hell. It also drives so much funding away from public transport and walkable paths, and makes the immediate areas around then unlivable. Our traffic is so bad because for most people public transport or walking just isn't viable or as viable, and it makes our streets look like actual shit. If we just weren't car centric, Brisbane would easily be the best city in Australia.
I do not mind a cars on the road, what I do mind is the obsessive spamming of 6 lane roads everywhere with cars absolutely flooding them. Or streets that you do not even have side walks.
Just bcse you don’t need one. Obviously you’re on welfare
I lived on Ipswich road and can confirm peak hour traffic is all day, all night and everyday of the week. The upside is the traffic and constant ambulance sirens helped to block out the endless amount of crack heads constantly fighting or chasing each other up and down the street
should do Ipswich
Second this
You should do a video on mount isa or Kingaroy
I think Brisbane is safer option compare to Sydney and Melbourne etc.
Brisbane is slowly also getting _culturally enriched_ by people from 3rd World countries we in the West so desperately want to emulate.
@timhinchcliffe5372 I do think eventually self defense laws will revert to household rights to bear arms due to recent youth crime invasions. When one push its upstanding citizens too far, they are asking for reprisals.
The only plus and the weather 🌡️
I went to Brisbane last year (from New Zealand). The helpful locals started listing all the 'shit' suburbs I shouldn't visit because of all the drug addicts and crime. It was a long list 😂
I live in Adelaide and its boring, everything shuts at 5pm and you can't make friends 😢
Why, isn't there a dumpster diving community there? You could make friends at your local aldi rubbish bins out the back
@ACDZ123 - you can't make friends in Adelaide unless you work, I'm the only dumpster diver on TH-cam in Adelaide, most calls to lifeline are in Adelaide over loneliness, it's just a country town believe me
@@DUMPSTERDIVINGADELAIDE123 cmon fella
You can make friends anywhere. Be careful what you eat from those bins tho 🤷
@ACDZ123 I've been doing it for 40 years, Adelaide is boring I've been lonely for 30 years, but I have a nice home, good bye 👋
@@DUMPSTERDIVINGADELAIDE123 ok 👍
My Daughter is an artist and I spent her Uni years encouraging her to move to Melbourne - she moved there 5 years ago and is so happy 🎉 Brisbane is not the place for arty creative people at all.
There isn't enough establishment/old money to finance the artists. Shows what a tremendous job Qld Ballet has done in the face of that.
@@le13579 There's heaps of Establishment / old money in Brisbane, heaps of artists and heaps of galleries. QUT has built much of its rep on the "Creative Industries"; there's a thriving animation / video game industry and supporting higher education. There's a thriving movie production industry on the GC. Qld Theatre Co is brilliant and there are other big local theatre companies. GOMA has attracted some global blockbuster shows. Methinks you talk bollocks.
Well, stay in Melbourne. The last thing Queensland needs, is more soft headed emigrants from Victoria.
We're overloaded with them, as it is. 🖕
Actually not true. The design conferences have been held in Bris because the interest is higher than other capitals
Yeah it can be a very sterile joint 😅😅
Brisbane is garbage - but it's OUR garbage. That's why the ibis is our spirit animal.
I love the fact that they just delete a lane on the main road (Edward st) to allow a bike lane instead that no one uses... Ever..
Wait until you hear about the global trends of pedestrianisation, urbanism and the "15 minute" lifestyle. Then wait until you hear how areas following these principles are highly desirable and increasingly valuable, and how Americans and others who have only ever known a car-based lifestyle often choose to holiday in these cities so they can experience a walkable lifestyle, around streets where cars are either banned or strictly limited. Check out what's happened in Amsterdam and other Dutch cities in the past 30 years, and the work currently under way in Paris to eliminate cars from certain areas. Even some parts of the US are tearing down freeways and replacing them with plazas, open malls and gardens.
It will be a good thing if one day they block Edward St to private vehicles completely and turn it into an upmarket pedestrian-only mall right down to the Botanic Gardens, and do the same to a bunch of other streets in that quarter near the gardens.
@@VanillaMacaron551 There was a fair bit of kerfuffle when Queen St Mall was opened. People complaining you could not longer drive all the way down Queen St.
I still think the city hasn't recovered from covid still dead as door nail in what used to be exciting malls unfortunately no reason to go in anymore
oi nah coming from Townsville this place is god tier haha
West End wouldn’t make my top 5. Maybe because I grew up here I find it easy to get around. I agree about the valley what a hole. The suburbs and fringe suburbs are mostly awesome. The bay and beaches are an easy drive and the people are friendly. The bike paths are some of the best in Australia and we have amazing parks, golf courses and schooling. Love the place and every time I travel I can’t wait to get back home.
Alot of people wont probably agree but i miss some of the old graffiti from the 90's that stayed for years only to be covered when they did a massive crackdown cleanup. Especially the huge BLAST memorial peice that was ontop of a building and you could see it when you caught the train past soith brisbane station.
There was a plan for Brisbane to have grand boulevards. It was Governor Gipps who decided Brisbane would never be a major city and with that crossed them off the plans. "all plans for reserves, open space or riverfront areas were eliminated and allotments were reduced from 0.25 acres to 5 allotments to the acre (Adelaide Town Planning Conference and Exhibition, 1918). In fact, following a 1842 visit by Governor Gipps, the width of principal streets such as Queen Street were narrowed from 140 links (28.2 metres) to 100 links (20.1 metres) as wide streets were deemed unnecessary for such an inconsequential settlement (Mellor 1959)."
As a person originally from Gippsland I offer my apologies.
It's not a city.
It's a monumental band-aid fix concrete jungle. 🎉
That's why I moved out of it
Brisbane is a sprawling piece of shit in my opinion. Full stop.
Would you prefer to live on top of everyone? Sprawling is good sometimes @@electro_sykes
Pretty much every city is a concrete jungle tho
Been here 20+ years and the traffic in rush hour (4 hours each way) is so horrifically bad. Going from the Ipswich mwy to Centenary.. enjoy the gridlock. Going south along the Pacific hwy after Eight Mile Plains...enjoy. Going North or South along the Bruce hwy on the weekend...enjoy! Too many vehicles...too many people.
The weather is one of the reasons why i hate it. Absolutely oppressively hot.
The roads make me panic.
May need to rethink visiting anything north of Bne latitude across the country.
@@le13579 I live on the Sunshine Coast. I grew up in Mackay, but now I have had an outdoor job for the last 8 years I've learnt to absolutely hate the heat haha.
Also the Brisbane gets hotter in summer compared to the tropics because of the urban heat island effect.
I didn't know i needed that, thank you 😂❤
What the hell are you going on about?? Brisbane is one of the most livable cities in the world! Anyone will tell you that during the Covid crisis, if you were living in Brisbane, it was the place to be. If you've lived in Sydney or Melbourne you will find Brisbane traffic a breeze! You can typically get anywhere in half an hour. Apart from peak times. I've always said, the only 2 downsides to Brisbane is the heat and the bogans. That's it!
Have you ever left Australia? - Brisbane is an absolute tip.
@@jimslimshady2467 yes I've been around most of Europe and America. Have you been to India? Why do you think so many people are desperate to get into this country
@@zigggyyyc7342 I've been to Mumbai - it's an absolute hole. However, I take your point, when compared to holes like Mumbai, Brisbane looks great. But that's hardly an achievement.
This is Mr James William Stein from Sydney New South Wales 2071 Australia. 😁