Word On The Street Do You Think Proserpine Will Be The Next Big Boom Area Of The Whitsundays?

Helen Matheson

“No, I don’t think so, it’s just things are slow moving here. There are enough services here for me, I’m happy with what’s here as it is.”

Neil Dobbin

“It is quite possible seeing everything that’s going on already, it probably will start moving back towards here. They can’t build forever down there, so it probably will in the future. Because more and more people are moving from down south and all around the place buying up and that type of thing and you can't really stop it because it’s all bloody progress or whatever you want to call it.”

Danni Hanns

“I think so yes, because property prices in the rest of the Whitsundays are a lot. So, I think people are coming more towards Proserpine, because housing is a little bit more affordable. And I do know a lot of people, their kids go to school here and everything just seems to be in Proserpine. And so, they’re moving into Proserpine to be closer to the school and to me, I think it’s okay. I don’t know what long term locals would say about it but yeah, I think it’s a good thing.”

Jim Ward

“We've come here, we're from Victoria and we came here a couple of years ago. And it was sort of very quiet and especially when in the COVID time and I reckon it might come on. It’s so close to the Whitsundays you know, so many places you can get to. It’s better than Bowen, in my opinion anyway and a bigger population here only helps.”

Anna Winterborn

“I've seen a few boom and bust areas I'd never say anything about any area being the next boom area because you just don't know what's around the corner. People come up here to live, it doesn't have the facilities that you have when you live in the city or if you live down south. We love it, we like it like this, but people come up here expecting something else and it's not that. This place is still going pretty good, but it would be lovely to see uplift or lift for the whole area for everybody.”

Kim Hilan

“No most of its moved to the beach. All the development has happened at Cannonvale and Airlie Beach. You’ve seen the loss of businesses in Proserpine unless we've got an industry to bring it back. But I remember it being a busy hub with a lot more businesses here.

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