Red Hill is only a few kilometres from the city, and it's one of the steepest places you can buy in Brisbane.
Both of those things shape what it's like to live here.
What Red Hill feels like day to day
This is an old inner suburb, mostly homes, set on hills. The streets climb, dip and wind back on themselves, and plenty of the houses sit up high with a view back towards the city or out over the western ridges. On a still evening you can sit on a front verandah and look straight across the rooftops, and for a lot of buyers that view is what gets them in the car in the first place.
The trade is that almost nothing here is flat. You notice it the first time you walk home with the shopping.
Musgrave Road, Waterworks Road and the local end of things
Day to day life runs along two roads. Musgrave Road and Waterworks Road carry the shops, cafes and small businesses, and between them they cover most of what you need without a trip into the city.
At the bottom of Musgrave Road sits the Normanby Hotel, which has been a Red Hill landmark for a very long time. Further up is St Brigid's, the big brick church that you can pick out from a long way off and that most locals use to give directions. On Enoggera Terrace, the old Red Hill Skate Arena building now houses the Red Hill Cinemas, which is exactly the sort of reuse that suits the suburb. The Broncos Leagues Club off Fulcher Road rounds it out for anyone who likes their footy close to home.
Getting around
There's no train station in Red Hill. Buses run along the main roads and the city is close enough that plenty of people ride, or at least tell themselves they will.