Gladstone

Gladstone used to be a lovely town/city, which has recently found itself in the middle of a nateral gas, coal and aluminium bonanza. The port is being massively enlarged, with supertankers everywhere. The nateral gas terminal is under construction and presumably there will soon be gas tankers there as well. All of this growth has given it massive unfrastructure issues. I think its expecting 20,000 workers for the gas plants to come in.

Gladstone itself is just not ready for this massive influx of workers, on top of the coal worker influx and the aluminium influx........
Apparently housing is so difficult to get that people are paying $700 and more for bedsits, with a normal house renting for $1,500, which would then be used to house 1 person per bedroom with the rest of the house shared. Thats IF you can get in.
Some people have identified this issue and have bought cheap boats and moored them permanently in the marina. The Marina authority are in the process of implementing a 3 week maximum stay - and the suggestion is that after that they will remove the  marina altogether. The marina authority is run/influenced by the major industry and they are not interested in having little boats sailing in between their supertankers. I sailed in and had supertankers within a 100 metres of me on both sides, and to be honest, you do feel very small and fragile.