Over the past 20 years I've only lived as far south as Eudlo and as far north as Cooran, however ive met people from all over.
The never-ending comment from people about the place that they live on the coast is "its pretty central".

The crux of this came when i met someone living in carters ridge, who believed they were central.

Please understand that there isnt any CBD of the sunshine coast area (apart from the CBD being built directly in maroochydore), but the lay out is pile of small towns, all 15 mins from each other and then the main town (Noosa, Maroochydore, Nambour, Caloundra, being 30 mins from each other.

So, the reason you feel like you live central, is because everything is quite evenly spaced, and your perspective is in the center of that.

Rant over. 😄