Yeah, a lot of these places mentioned are likely to become more popular in the years to come for the very reason people are mentioning now, I suspect places like Byron Bay would have been on the list 20yrs ago, popularity now has most people priced out as well as changing the character of the place.
From my vantage point here in the hinterland I see the growth is all in the middle grounds on the sunny coast.
The good bits should stay good for a long time.
The actual foreshore is protected from development, coastal strip behind the dunes is just about as developed as it can be and the hinterlands are protected with lots of environmental covenants.
This only leaves the bit of land in the middle to get over developed, which has the effect of choking the more desirable areas.
Personally I’m surrounded by almost 60 acres of environmental covenants here (including 2 acres of my land being protected), so we’re at no risk of being built out.
But my drive to go for a surf when we first built out here took just under 15 minutes with just 4 sets of traffic lights.
Currently to go to the same beach it takes just over 30 minutes with 15 sets of traffic lights.
When the highway interchange disaster is finished and the Stockland decide to open up more of their stockpile of land on my route to the beach, it will be 20 sets of lights and I expect somewhere around 40 minutes to get to the beach.
The beach is still beautiful and the hinterland still has the lifestyle we all want, is just all of the urban sprawl in between that’s changing things here.
This gives a great perspective of what’s been happening around these parts;
https://earthengine.google.com/timelapse#v=-26.78758,153.10934,11.935,latLng&t=0&ps=50&bt=19840101&et=20181231&startDwell=0&endDwell=0Heaps of other places around the country would be just the same.
