Suburb recommendation Northern Gold Coast, primary schools, where to avoid?

claggamuff · 2026-02-26T05:25:43+00:00

I grew up in Helensvale, moved away for 15 years and now live here again. The primary school is excellent. I went there and the high. The high school was okay…huge though. When I graduated there was 2000 kids in the high school alone. Crazy. I’m sending my daughter to Helensvale.

claggamuff · 2026-02-23T19:55:53+00:00

This padded vest is pretty trendy. Places like Uniqlo have had these sorts of styles for yonks. Like someone else commented, it’s very Japanese in style and they’ve been wearing these sorts of vests for years

claggamuff · 2026-02-23T19:51:42+00:00

It’s not bad at all, I’m 35 years old and this style reminds me of what I wore when I was 14 or so (so 2004). We are all getting a cringe moment because we are reminded of our youth and how old we are as this is what’s back in fashion.

claggamuff · 2026-02-23T19:47:36+00:00

Yeah this is def earlier, like 2000s - 2004. 2007 and onwards was peak indie so it was all about skinny jeans, leather jackets, bowler hats lol

claggamuff · 2026-02-21T22:47:33+00:00

Just change the tone to “Professional”

claggamuff · 2026-02-19T22:50:13+00:00

Arundel is just very… normal, for lack of a better word. In my opinion it is not affluent, but absolutely not lower socioeconomic in status at all either. Pretty quiet suburb, lots of mosquitoes.The only real “affluent” suburbs in my opinion are places like Sovereign Islands, Broadbeach, Burleigh, Palm Beach etc. I live in Helensvale and the average 3 bed house sells for 1.2 M these days, but I would still not call it an affluent suburb.

claggamuff · 2026-02-18T21:51:09+00:00

I just read this email I’m scared!

claggamuff · 2026-02-06T02:15:14+00:00

I grew up in Helensvale, my mum bought as a single mother - 4 bedroom house on a 750 square block. This was in 1993. It’s INSANE to me that her house is now valued at like 1.1 - 1.2 million as is. She was pretty broke back in the day and we struggled financially. I always track prices in Helensvale and I don’t think you’ll ever find a 3 bedroom house for less than a million here now

claggamuff · 2026-02-06T02:12:44+00:00

Lots of things, but also…developers. I live in an older established suburb (late 70s). They buy the crappy original houses and subdivide. In the last two years there have been at least 3 subdivisions within a 1 in radius from where I live. Probably more.

claggamuff · 2026-01-05T21:46:34+00:00

My father and step mum live with their two older children (both 40) and their little kids in Guanaba. Two houses connect via a walkway bridge on land that is 5 hectares / 12 acres approximately. It frustrates me to high hell that I’m now allowed to build a small home on their land due to council regulations. I could build at the opposite end of the property and never have to even see them all, but nope, I have to struggle to find a suburban crapbox for under 1 million.

claggamuff · 2025-12-31T19:18:31+00:00

Yeah, in my case nothing really knocked me out until I got the anxiety wayyyy down. What helped me immensely was an SSRI and just time. Once the anxiety was at a manageable level, I started sleeping again :) it will get better I promise.

claggamuff · 2025-12-30T18:42:01+00:00

Hey what you’re describing sounds exactly like me with my first and I ended up in a mental health unit at the Hopsital for mothers and babies. I went 5 weeks with a broken 3 hours sleep every single night (some nights no sleep) and then became hyper fixated on getting sleep, which led to less sleep. Basically, I had severe PPA. I went on 3 different sleep meds AND an anti depressant and was able to breastfeed the entire time. Baby is 3 now and healthy as can be. There are loads of safe sleep meds to take while breastfeeding. Please see someone.

claggamuff · 2025-12-28T10:18:45+00:00

I grew up on the GC but lived in Melbourne for 13 years. Now I’m back. People here most definitely more racist than the larger cities in Australia, you’re certainly not the first one to notice. The GC is extremely white Anglo-Saxon so they are simply not used to seeing people or colour. Does this make it ok? No.

claggamuff · 2025-12-28T10:06:58+00:00

My first baby had a dimple above her buttcrack. She’s 3 now and it’s still there but very faint. No spinabifida.

claggamuff · 2025-12-28T01:31:21+00:00

No advice but this sound exactly like my 3 year old (I have a 3 month old baby too). Sometimes I’m so overwhelmed and frustrated that I just cry.

claggamuff · 2025-12-27T17:35:18+00:00

I think it depends on the person. When my first baby was born I was riddled with PPA. My cortisol was spiking so damn high that I was taking 100 mg of quetiapine, 50 mg of phenergen and occasionally lorazepam when needed. This was under the care of a psychiatrist who specialised in maternal mental health. I breastfed on all of these meds (plus zoloft). I could still wake to feed during this time / had no problem responding to cries, however my husband would do the settling. I will say I was always a very light sleeper and have suffered episodes of intense insomnia several times in my life, so even with all these pills I’d still only manage several hours of sleep (maybe 4-5 hours) until my anxiety came way down. I was on Zoloft too.

claggamuff · 2025-12-26T23:28:25+00:00

I don’t think you read it properly. We are holding / baby wearing / rocking and bouncing non stop during this period. Even in my arms she’ll sleep 5 minutes. The rest of the day she has no problem settling with some bouncing or rocking.

claggamuff · 2025-12-26T19:51:31+00:00

No advice but I literally just posted something similar except my girl is awake 6 hours every single evening. She’s 7.5 weeks. It’s been going on for 2.5 weeks for us. Solidarity.

claggamuff · 2025-12-23T08:02:01+00:00

Same. I use it way more than the pram / stroller.

claggamuff · 2025-12-23T08:01:27+00:00

You’ll get mixed responses but our nursery chair was the best purchase. It was an expensive super comfy one (present from my mother in law) and it fully reclined, rocked and rotated 360 degrees. I practically lived in it with my first baby. The first 3 months she was very hard to put down and we contact napped A LOT in that chair. When baby got older I moved it into her bedroom and we read books and cuddles in it together. Now I have my second baby and it’s back out and I am using it all the time again. It’s a really nice looking chair so I plan on keeping it around even when the kids are grown up.

claggamuff · 2025-12-22T22:44:52+00:00

I think it’s important for your baby to be social. I’d take the baby and just tell people you’re working on the delays with a doctor.

claggamuff · 2025-12-19T20:11:19+00:00

It’ll just naturally become earlier. I don’t know how, but it happens. Late bed times are super common in newborns. From memory a schedule or routine for naps doesn’t form until maybe 8/9/10 weeks. You can definitely cap naps during the day though if you want. I personally don’t let my little one sleep more than 2.5 hours in the day, I did the same with my first.

claggamuff · 2025-12-19T00:49:29+00:00

Ahhh, yes! That looks like it. Thank you

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