A tale of two cities:)

[Smitty]

Case closed

oh really......

http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/som ... 17487.html

[Smitty]

and then we have Melbourne voted as Australia's most livable city

http://www.theage.com.au/national/melbo ... -3y8n.html

[Six Addict]

i ride over the gladesville bridge almost overday and if its a fine day i ride over, look left, look down the harbour passed woolwich, balmain, greenwich, longueville only to be greeted by a silhoutte of the harbour bridge with the city to right, north sydney to the left.... the sun shines and i think to myself....

god knows how i could live anywhere else...

for all sydney's "downfalls" i believe there are places and sights and experiences in this city that for me make it the best place on earth to live



btw im sure i wouldnt even have to try to find a restaurant as expensive as doyles in melbourne...

u just gotta know where to find the hidden gems.... and as a tourist to sydney who visits darling harbour and circular quay, u are bound to find overpriced restaurants.....


melbournites need to the push the case that melbourne is better, whereas sydney people know sydney is better

[fireyrob]

and then we have Melbourne voted as Australia's most livable city

http://www.theage.com.au/national/melbo ... -3y8n.html

Until you make the monopoly board nothing else counts.....Its over people, nothing else to see here

Case closed

oh really......

http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/som ... 17487.html

like all govt employee's I cant comment other than to say, at least we have found where our payrise budget went

[Smitty]

oh really......
http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/som ... 17487.html



like all govt employee's I cant comment other than to say, at least we have found where our payrise budget went

yeah...on funny money used on a Monopoly board

[Smitty]

melbournites need to the push the case that melbourne is better, whereas sydney people know sydney is better

thats the whole point......we Melbournians don't need to push the case
there is no case to answer, no case to judge, no jury required
simply....Melbourne is a better place to live



and us Melbournians don't give a rats who agrees or disagrees

[Glen]

Now Smitty come on. Your not seriously suggesting that Melbourne has better aquatic features ie Bells and Torquay

You've got two decent beaches, Your main waterway ie the Yarra is a liquid turd. NSW has a coastline full of spectacular beaches not just two that are of world quality. The winter swell in NSW craps on anything else including your overrated "Bells" which works properly about one month per year, We have the Harbour, Pittwater, Broken bay, The Hawkesbury, The Georges, Botany Bay and Port Hacking all within an hour of the CBD and all immaculate. Get out of the city and we've got Lake Macquarie, Tuggerah lakes, The Hunter, The Manning, The Hastings, Smiths lake (we'll get this renamed one day ), Wallis lake, Jervis Bay, The Shoalhaven and on I could go

I'll admit you've got great roads, your southern coastline is nice, AFL is the best game played in the country (although we're pretty good at that) and you've got Phillip Island. We planned it this way so that we get to "ride" to the Supers and GP every year over some nice bits of tar and you get to pay to maintain it for us........

As a famous pollie once said "If you're not living in Sydney you're really just camping out"

[fireyrob]

We have the Harbour, Pittwater, Broken bay, The Hawkesbury, The Georges, Botany Bay and Port Hacking all within an hour of the CBD and all immaculate. Get out of the city and we've got Lake Macquarie, Tuggerah lakes, The Hunter, The Manning, The Hastings, Smiths lake (we'll get this renamed one day ), Wallis lake, Jervis Bay, The Shoalhaven and on I could go

Mt Colah

[javaman]

Melbourne: MotoGP + Superbike + F1.

Sydney: ??

[Glen]

Melbourne: MotoGP + Superbike + F1.

Sydney: ?? Great people who get to ride to the events put on and paid for by Victorians

[Six Addict]

if i was from melbourne i wouldnt mention the F1....


that thing has never made a single cent since you guys have been hosting it...

so not only that but u pay to go see it twice (taxes and tickets) and u pay for it twice even if u just want to sit at home... in the house u paid for, on the tv u paid for, using the electricity u paid for!!!

even adeliade ran a better F1 and thats something id be keeping well out of other people's minds

[Colette]

I seem to have a knack lately for starting threads that take on a life of their own!

Thanks for all the info that's been coming through, though.

The idea wasn't to bag out either city, just to determine the pros and cons of living in each

[aardvark]

just to determine the pros and cons of living in each

Plenty of pro's in both cities... try Kings Cross in Sydney.

I'm sure there's also more than enough cons!

[ZXR750]

I had to go to QLD earlier this week for work. Flying out over the harbour with the view of the bridge and the Opera House. You can't get that any where.
As for beaches go. two words. St Kilda. Thats got to be enough to pick Sydney any day.

[ZXR750]

Sydney has to be the choice it simply has the most variety, Sydney is truly a metropolis we have a choice of everything - beaches, fine dining, culture, country, wineries withing two hours, the blue mountains, a harbour that you need to take trip around, traffic (but that is only if you live in the wrong area to where you work)

the reason Sydney doesn't turn up in big numbers to sporting events like in Melbourne is because we have something to do.

Yes it is more expensive but you pay for what you get.

Nick

hehe
haha...here we go the ol' Synney vs Melb deal

Melbourne has wineries within 20 mins from the CBD (or the world renown Yarra Valley an hour away) HUnter Valley Mudgee hell there is even Wineries in the Metro area. Vickeries and Camden have wineries.Melbourne has beaches...for swimming with the family in safety or surfing for those who do... Bells is home to Aussie surfing
and Torquay is surf capital of Oz You win Sydney don't have any beaches
Melbourne definitely has the better dining ..and its cheaper (Gawd. is it cheap compared to Sydney..Doyles at the Rocks floored me price wise last week) You have Italian restraunts we have sea food Again Sydney wins.Melbourne is the art and fashion capital of Oz ..I'll give you that but no one cares anyway.
Melbourne has the Dandenong ranges with 3/4hr from the CBD Blue Mountains any one.
Melbourne has better trams than Sydney (and no restaurant trams in Sydney)We have some in the the museum where they belong.
Sydney has a harbour..nice one too, bugger to get around on That gives you more time to enjoy it.
Melbourne has the Gt Ocean Road..its a bugger now too with speed zones and too many caravans
Melbourne has the Island..yep Phillip Is and Sandown and Calder and Winton raceways All those race tracks in Victoria and none in Sydney
Sydney is older..has to be...has Mrs Macs chair too! Older and wiser.

BOTH have VAST areas of new housing a squillion kms from anywhere...with no trees and little pub transport
traffic?...well not going there


so there ya go!

cheers

Smitty