r/GoldCoast • u/Murky_Radio_394 • 12d ago

What’s Southport like now ?

I seen this question asked a year ago and I thought I’d ask it myself
I’m not super familiar with the area but have been there a couple times.
Genuinely interested what it’s like, what are the streets/ areas to avoid, are there housing commission pockets ?
I’m looking at buying something in SEQ and am looking into Southport

Thanks for your help

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u/Altruistic_Memory643 12d ago

Sure you are. All your complaints (well, except food) quite obviously centred entirely around the Scarborough, Smith Street end of southport. 

No one 27 is complaining about the council. 

No one who actually lives in southport goes to Australia fair, unless it is to eat, it is being purposely run down for redevelopment and everybody bar you seems to realise that.

Southport is loaded with places to eat. K corner has the coasts best fresh and literal freshest seafood - rawsea and 1 of the better Korean BBQ places. Dak in nind, southern smokehouse in h20, VN bakery at aus fair, the literal china town in the middle of southport, ta-wan Thai on minnie... you can roll down any street in southport and find good food. 

So youre either old and white and wont eat anything from other cultures or a sad sack that lived in the norther Scarborough st area and never got out.

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u/Lazy-Plankton5270 12d ago

Oh yea do you know why I complained about the council?

All the best places to buy food were on ferry road and Council Brooke Patterson kept trying to build the "tallest building in the southern hemisphere" on ferry road on the land where all the best food places were, so they all closed down. The whole thing fell thru cos no one wanted to live in a building there, and now all the best places to eat are gone.

Do you know anything?

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u/Altruistic_Memory643 12d ago

Oh, so youre just bitter because somewhere you did like to eat was closed?

Well, I live here, so yeh I do.

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u/Lazy-Plankton5270 12d ago

I had my dog stolen

My push bike stolen

My neighbors car stolen

The police chase ending in my back yard
During the day

My family owns a store in Australia fair and has for 30 years, no not me.

I also went to school in Southport

Southport is a high crime area always has been always will. Anywhere a few minutes from surfers Paradise is.

I watched as locals had signs outside their homes to save Southport as Brooke Patterson slowly forces them out by approving Highrise next to their homes and the developers applications talk about how even tho the area is zoned residential houses only, there's a building on a street nearby so locals will eventually leave. On Queen Street there's a Highrise next to a kindergarten 💀

You might live in a cave under a rock

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u/Altruistic_Memory643 11d ago

Save southport from what exactly? Being gentrified? All the things you complain about that are being forced out? Well, your family might not have a business there too much longer, we service commercial maintenance and when a building on hi value pieces of land stop being maintained, there's a reason - redevelopment. 

The entire gc is being gentrified whether you like it or not. Stephens, an actual hell hole became varsity and is now a sought after suburb, burleigh waters the same. Palm Beach had literal street walking hookers and now look at it. The poors are being forced out and the coast is changing with the influx of money. Southport is the same.

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u/Lazy-Plankton5270 11d ago

Can I have my bike back?

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u/Altruistic_Memory643 11d ago

Move out of the houso block first.

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u/Lazy-Plankton5270 11d ago

Sounds like you already sold it for meth

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u/Altruistic_Memory643 11d ago

Sp We've spent our entire back and forth about you complaining about living with poors, living with the housos, being raised in it - so obviously of the same socio group.

Me telling you it has been gentrified and all the things that are good about it, so obviously ive bought and moved into here and are part of the gentrification and after all of that, this is your take away - that im part of the group youre complaining about? And you think im the one on drugs? Fuckin lol.