My suburb’s population is booming, but business – and services – are not

April 20, 2026 — 4:59am

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Although I’ve moved six times in the past six years, I’ve only truly called one place home for almost 30 years.

I’ve shuffled from place to place as a reporter, heading out to Queensland’s Southern Downs and down to Sydney for work but, through it all, my family home in Bridgeman Downs has been a constant.

My parents bought our first home in the suburb in the late ’90s as an empty block, part of a subdivision of an old farm. They built our house on Constellation Crescent just in time for my birth.

For the majority of my childhood, paddocks with cows and horses lined either side of the main road heading north, and the “Welcome to Brisbane” sign and the pony club were just around the corner.

Heading north also meant passing the neighbourhood’s acreage properties, which most people still think of as the norm in our suburb. It features the famous “Millionaires’ Row” – huge estates along Beams Road that were the source of neighbourhood gossip about brothers who had gone bankrupt halfway through one of the builds.

Mum sold our home last year, downsizing to the west side of........

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