Logan City Queensland - 40 Great Quality Pictures of Logan City Highlights!
More than 280,000 people from more than 185 different cultures call Logan City Home. We celebrate our diversity and the rich and varied lifestyle it offers. Logan is also a very young city with around 50 per cent of residents aged 30 or younger. This adds energy and enthusiasm to our community and gives us a real vibrancy. No wonder we have become known as one of the most diverse cities in Australia.
As a young city, Logan's residential neighbourhoods are predominantly fresh and contemporary. New estates continue to flourish, giving locals a wide range of lifestyle options, from leafy suburbs to bushland acreage. Many older suburbs predating the city's short history have been revitalised through urban and community renewal partnership projects between Logan City Council and the Queensland Government.
Given its central geographic location and available young workforce, Logan has thriving commercial, retail and manufacturing precincts, as well as healthy service and wholesale industries.
Logan is ideally located between Brisbane, Ipswich and the Gold Coast, and has easy access to the national highway and rail networks. It has thriving light industrial precincts at Marsden, Crestmead, Slacks Creek and Loganholme, which are continuing to expand to meet the demand of quality, responsible industry.
Logan's cafe, restaurant, hotel and club scene has flourished in recent years. Today in Logan you can experience a diversity of tastes in a range of quality venues.
From Mediterranean fare, fresh seafood and contemporary Australian cuisine to the best of Asian, Indian and European delights, we have restaurants to suit all tastes.
Travel around the city at lunch time and you'll find a host of cafes bustling with activity, with the aroma of espresso and focaccia in the air.
Logan also has a great range of sporting and service clubs, of which tens of thousands of our residents are members, as well as hotels offering stylish decor, fine food and live entertainment.
Logan has more than 1,100 environmental and recreational parks, many featuring dog off-leash areas, exercise facilities, play equipment and skate ramps. There are pristine bushland reserves and wetlands, as well as manicured waterfront parks along the Logan River. The natural environment is an important facet to life in Logan, and a popular place to enjoy the bush and its wildlife is the Daisy Hill State Forest and Daisy Hill Koala Centre.
There's plenty to do in Logan for lovers of sport and recreation. A wide range of activities is available around the city, from the traditional cricket, football, netball and tennis to 'newer' sports like futsal and bocce. We have everything from pigeon racing and model sail boating to kayaking and martial arts.
Our facilities include meticulously manicured golf courses, spectacular aquatic facilities and the multi-purpose Insports Centre, which features basketball courts as well as a gymnasium, rock-climbing, cafe and function room.
Logan has a range of attractions that capture the city's history and cultural diversity. Visitors can step back in time at Logan's oldest home, Mayes Cottage, in Kingston, which has been converted into a house museum circa 1930s, or they can wander through the tranquil gardens of the Chung Tian Buddhist Temple at Priestdale, tucked away in a natural bushland setting.
Cultural pursuits feature strongly at the regional Logan Art Gallery which showcases the best works by local and visiting artists. Art can also be found on display in commercial galleries around town, as well as at the historic Kingston Butter Factory and Community Arts Centre. The Butter Factory is home to the Butterbox Theatre (used by local performing arts groups), the Buttermaid's Kitchen, the Logan City Historical Museum and an arts and craft co-op.
The opening of the Logan Entertainment Centre in 2002 ushered in a new era for events and entertainment in the city. Finally the city had its own venue for conferences, seminars and major functions. The centre's arrival also meant locals would have the opportunity to see major touring acts without having to leave the city.
Logan's nine public libraries host displays by local artists, craftspeople and community groups. Our libraries cater for all ages, with a huge range of books, tapes, videos and CD-ROMs. Regular activities range from storytelling to book discussion groups. The Hyperdome Library has Australia's first drive-through library service, while the Accessibility Centre at Logan North Library caters for people with disabilities.
Auburn Coach Wife Kristi Malzahn Agrees with Match & eHarmony: Men are Jerks
My advice is this: Settle! That's right. Don't worry about passion or intense connection. Don't nix a guy based on his annoying habit of yelling Bravo! in movie theaters. Overlook his halitosis or abysmal sense of aesthetics. Because if you want to have the infrastructure in place to have a family, settling is the way to go. Based on my observations, in fact, settling will probably make you happier in the long run, since many of those who marry with great expectations become more disillusioned with each passing year. (It's hard to maintain that level of zing when the conversation morphs into discussions about who's changing the diapers or balancing the checkbook.)
Obviously, I wasn't always an advocate of settling. In fact, it took not settling to make me realize that settling is the better option, and even though settling is a rampant phenomenon, talking about it in a positive light makes people profoundly uncomfortable. Whenever I make the case for settling, people look at me with creased brows of disapproval or frowns of disappointment, the way a child might look at an older sibling who just informed her that Jerry's Kids aren't going to walk, even if you send them money. It's not only politically incorrect to get behind settling, it's downright un-American. Our culture tells us to keep our eyes on the prize (while our mothers, who know better, tell us not to be so picky), and the theme of holding out for true love (whatever that is—look at the divorce rate) permeates our collective mentality.
Even situation comedies, starting in the 1970s with The Mary Tyler Moore Show and going all the way to Friends, feature endearing single women in the dating trenches, and there's supposed to be something romantic and even heroic about their search for true love. Of course, the crucial difference is that, whereas the earlier series begins after Mary has been jilted by her fiancé, the more modern-day Friends opens as Rachel Green leaves her nice-guy orthodontist fiancé at the altar simply because she isn't feeling it. But either way, in episode after episode, as both women continue to be unlucky in love, settling starts to look pretty darn appealing. Mary is supposed to be contentedly independent and fulfilled by her newsroom family, but in fact her life seems lonely. Are we to assume that at the end of the series, Mary, by then in her late 30s, found her soul mate after the lights in the newsroom went out and her work family was disbanded? If her experience was anything like mine or that of my single friends, it's unlikely.
And while Rachel and her supposed soul mate, Ross, finally get together (for the umpteenth time) in the finale of Friends, do we feel confident that she'll be happier with Ross than she would have been had she settled down with Barry, the orthodontist, 10 years earlier? She and Ross have passion but have never had long-term stability, and the fireworks she experiences with him but not with Barry might actually turn out to be a liability, given how many times their relationship has already gone up in flames. It's equally questionable whether Sex and the City's Carrie Bradshaw, who cheated on her kindhearted and generous boyfriend, Aidan, only to end up with the more exciting but self-absorbed Mr. Big, will be better off in the framework of marriage and family. (Some time after the breakup, when Carrie ran into Aidan on the street, he was carrying his infant in a Baby Björn. Can anyone imagine Mr. Big walking around with a Björn?)