Is the Gold Coast less affordable and family friendly than 30 years ago?

Times may change, but the Gold Coast has always been a place that families call home as well as a holiday destination.

And as cost-of-living pressures continue to bite into household budgets, curious local resident Michael Spaniak wondered if the Gold Coast was now more expensive and less family friendly than 30 years ago?


A crowded Fisherman's Wharf, Main Beach, Gold Coast in 1989

A total of 225,773 people were recorded at the 1991 census, making the city the second largest urban centre in Queensland after Brisbane (1,145,537).

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