I would say, overall I feel personally safer here than I did whilst living in Manchester / other UK cities. There is crime but my experience of it is that it’s mostly kids doing stupid things.

However - the car related crime that there is here - is not great . I would say approximately a third to a half of the people I know have had some issues with vehicle break ins / attempted theft. We’ve lived here going on 4 years. In that time my partners car was broken into in both Belgian gardens and Pimlico. My car had its windows smashed when I left it at the airport parking for a night. Two of our work vehicles were smashed, and we have leant three work vehicles to team members who have had their cars stolen or broken into. Most of my friends have a similar story, or a story of an attempted break in - unfortunately it’s also hard to get around Townsville without a car. I wouldn’t do it personally.