Tbh it feels to me like there's not much reason to go much further across the river, it's mostly urban sprawl anyway isn't it?

Edit: to be clear I mean urban sprawl in both directions

Eh, I've lived in 3 countries and travelled in over 20. I've not explored very much of Australia, but I've been down the coast as far as Canberra, plus Melbourne, and a handful of spots further west and north than the Sunshine Coast.

I still have spent precious little time within the greater Brisbane region, on the southside. There's just not a lot that one side has to offer that the other does not, and the vast majority of what is unique on one side is within 2 km of the river. Rectangular sports stadium in Milton, round one in Woolloongabba. CBD northside, Southbank southside. There's a big shopping centre in the north at Chermside, and south at Garden City; as well as west at Indro and east at Carindale. An Ikea an North Lakes and Logan. I've probably driven or trained through the southside, to the Gold Coast or beyond, more often than I've gone to a destination within it.

Brisbane is definitely big enough to stick to one side of it, as far as one city is ever big enough to stay within.

Hale Street is so terrible. Three (or four?) separate entrances, each one lane. Three separate exits. People needing to get across from the leftmost entrance to the rightmost exit at the same time as other go the other way, in a very short span. Nightmare.

I tried to read this, but after 30+ years in Brisbane I've never heard anyone utter such nonsense. Mind you, my best friends parents told him his Asian wife will ruin him and take his money. So I'll believe people say anything, but not everyone is worth listening to.

I'm not convinced that's true. I'm not doubting that someone somewhere might have believed it, but I don't think their beliefs were based in fact. As just a couple of inner city examples, both Kurilpa and Barambin are noteworthy Aboriginal meeting spaces.

@Zagorath p.s. if you are interested in another remnant of Brisbane’s racist past, the reason that there are so many “Boundary Roads” in Brisbane (esp. south side) is that those were the boundaries that the Aboriginals were not allowed to cross without a permit. I kid you not.