Reaction To Melbourne, Australia (Australia's Most Livable City?)
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- Reaction To Melbourne, Australia (Australia's Most Livable City?)
This is my reaction Australian city Melbourne. Melbourne has regularly been voted as the world's most livable city. Is it the most livable city in Australia and the world?
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They pulled more gold out of the ground in one week from Bendigo than for the WHOLE of the US gold rush.
That's History, not relevant! 🥱
Melbourne has so many public buildings built with gold money. The Yarra is from the original peoples who called it the Yarra Yarra.
@@jenniferharrison8915
It’s relevant to me lol, just had to say something 😊. Don’t yell at me lol. My great grandfather was Minister of Mines here in Victoria during Federation and when the Welcome Stranger Nugget was found, his name is on the Welcome Stranger monument, Henry Foster MLA. Bit of trivia, bit of my family history, so it’s always relevant to me 😊
@@bernadettelanders7306 That's really cool, what a great job! 😉 I was just saying that actually Bendigo is not in Melbourne! 😄
@@jenniferharrison8915
I love Bendigo, you are just up the road a tad from Melbourne. Myself and 3 other girlfriends go to Bendigo for our getaway. We only picked Bendigo as one friend lives in Swan Hill, so a pin was stuck between Melbourne and Swan Hill, and Bendigo seemed the best option. And we all fell in love with Bendigo. Haven’t been since Covid but we are talking about the next time we’ll go. I should see the monument at Moliagul lol. Went to Edith Head dress designer exhibition in Bendigo a few years ago, brilliant.
I live in Melbourne and live 30 minutes from the city 25 minutes to the beach and 15 minutes to the Dandenongs. Infrastructure is great.
Melbourne doesn't have beaches. Only Port Phillip Bay, which is a lake.
@@NoTaboos ??
Whilst convicts did somewhat start the settlement of Europeans in Australia, the gold rush was actually what populated the country and bought people from all over the world to moved here
Melbourne was never a penal colony as NSW and Tasmania were . Victoria was settled by free settlers some convicts were brought in for labourers.
This video was awesome! Hearing how highly this young man spoke about Melbourne and Victoria put a smile on my face and brought a tear to my eye.
Being a Victorian and living just an hour south of Melbourne I felt so proud to hear this. Melbourne is an incredible city and we have so much nature all around us. I grew up in and still live in the second biggest Victorian city know as Geelong, we are just about an hour south of Melbourne and right near the great ocean road. I’m so blessed to live in the amazing state and country that I do. It is just beautiful here. Melbourne is wonderful and so is the great state of Victoria!
The gold rush in Victoria was centred in the golden triangle of Bendigo, Castlemaine and Ballarat. There was also some gold found in north-east Victoria on the Dart river and the village has been buried under the waters of Lake Dartmouth, the dam was finished in 1979. It spilled last October, for only the sixth time in the 40 years since the completion.
Melbourne is also an amazing art centre , those alleys with all the graffiti are included in the art tour amongst galleries and other art installations , one of the things I love most . Also only an hours drive from the countryside and all the beauty that holds
Melbourne is the coffee capital of Australia, thanks to the Italian migrants back in the 1950s and 60s who introduced us to espresso machines. We adopted it and the associated café culture with a passion. (Consequently, Starbucks withered and died on the vine when they tried to bring their expensive & poor excuse for a coffee to this town.) Additionally, successive waves of migration starting with the Chinese in the 19th century, followed by Italians and Greeks in the mid 20th. (Melbourne has the world's second highest Greek-speaking population, after Athens.) In the 1970s, many Vietnamese people came here and since then people from such places as Somalia, the Indian subcontinent and many other countries all round the world have made Melbourne their home. Each group has made their contribution to a truly multicultural society, not to mention bringing their own cuisine with them. Melbourne has a truly international foodie scene.
On the nature front, I live in the foothills of the Dandenong Ranges about 30 km from the Melbourne CBD. Within a five-minute drive of my home, there are majestic mountain ash forests with fern filled gullies alive with all manner of wildlife, including superb lyrebirds. The Organ Pipes National Park mentioned in your video is about the same distance on the other side of the city. However, Melbourne is not the only city in Australia to be blessed by close-by natural wonders. Sydney has the Royal National Park, Adelaide has the Adelaie Hills, Darwin has Kakadu National Park and in fact most Australian cities have a lot of parks and open areas and near-by national or state parks, probably as a result of not having been settled until relatively recently and also due to the forethought of the early planners. An example of this is Melbourne's city rectangular grid system of 30 m wide streets in the CBD thanks to the survey work of Robert Hoddle in the 1830s.
Sydney also has the Ku Ring Gai Chase National Park touching the northern suburbs, (much more spectacular than the Royal), and Sydney Harbour National Park in between. It has far more and closer-by natural wonders than Melbourne. Not to mention much higher species diversity, due to a warmer and more humid climate.
And you can get equally good coffee in any large city these days.
I too live in Melbourne, 10km from the city, I've also lived in Adelaide, Gold Coast, Brisbane and the UK and Melbourne is the best by far, there are so many cool things to do here and nothing is really that far away, I feel incredibly lucky to be here.
I've lived in Sydney, Sunshine Coast, Townsville, Honolulu, London, Barcelona, and 20 years in Melbourne.
Melbourne is the WORST by far. Townsville was the best.
Melbourne is the best city for food choices from three hat restaurants to little side diners/
I.5 hours from Sydney, the Blue Mountains! 👍
Transportation to Australia ended in 1856 because the British authorities determined it was not a deterrent with a gold rush happening. People were committing petty crime in the hope of a year or two's transportation as it was on effect free passage.
Victoria was never used for convict settlement. It was set up by squatters and free settlers. Victoria was so named for the Queen (as was Melbourne for a significant figure in her life) to help convince her to agree to patronise NSW being split into a northern and southern colony, which the governor was against. Queensland is similarly named to curry favour with Queen Victoria.
Melbourne is a fantastic place to live. Sport, culture, life balance, compact and well laid out.
Great video once more despite a couple of inaccuracies made by the American narrator.
I would say it was produced just after covid lockdowns around 1.5 to 2 years ago.👍🤗
Having visited Melbourne for business over 60 times I found it a wonderful place to spend my down time more restaurants per capita than New York and plenty of pubs and clubs the people are just like any Australians found in the rest of the country but I will say they dressmore business like and I found the corporate women I came in contact with weremore elegant and dressed better than their Sydney counterparts this of course is only my opinion and only of the people I did business with also this was before I retired 10 yrs ago ,so things could have changed . Apart for the usual inability for Americans to pronounce Australian place names and bird and animal names correctly, I thought the young narrator did a fair job .
Bendigo and Ballarat are large ex mining towns but they’re still big and growing, not abandoned. In fact VIC gov is planning to connect all these small cities to Melbourne and Geelong via fast rail. If it ever happens 😂
Victorian Gold Rush was in 1851 - in the country area of Clunes ( Vic ) - Ballarat & Bendigo area also ( Vic )
Beechworth was huge also 😊
@@alliegal45 And Walhalla, Coopers Creek, Moliagul, Maryborough, Rushworth, Omeo, Whroo, Castlemaine, Daylesford, Maldon, Avoca, Ararat, Stawell, Dunolly etc etc etc. There were a lot of places over many areas, not just the Golden Triangle.
@@megsybond unfortunately none under my house 🤬🤬😂😂
Yes- it's got everything man!😊
I'm from Rutherglen (named after the Rutherglen in Scotland which is a fun story) and it's a goldrush town in Victoria. Once the gold supply dried up we shifted our economic focus towards wine; there's 6 or 7 big wineries around the town now
Have a look at what it is based on, you might be surprised. It's about hotels, convention centres etc rather than if we can afford housing.
You looked perplexed about "Marvel" Stadium, it's corporate branding... like naming the school stadium after the benefactor who built it, or refurbished it.... on the non-commercial media (ie. No Advertising, even when the building is named that) it's called Docklands Stadium. Previously Marvel has been called Colonial Stadium (after a Bank), Telegraph Dome (after the telecommunications company) and Etihad Stadium (after the airline).
Bendigo is a beautiful city.
I’m born and bred in beautiful Melbourne (pronounced Melbin). Our food scene is amazingly good.
Melbourne was considered the world's richest city in 1870/80's due to the Goldfields in and around
Ballarat & Bendigo.
ballarat and bendigo were both also the richest cities at one point
One must Always mention the Eureka Stockade in that sense.
On 30 November 1854 miners from the Victorian town of Ballarat, disgruntled with the way the colonial government had been administering the goldfields, swore allegiance to the Southern Cross flag at Bakery Hill and built a stockade at the nearby Eureka diggings. Paints a good picture around the time frame
True, a lot of people don't know this .
Victorian high country with a set up 4x4wd is a place that you will never forget mining and forestry towns all around the place to stay or just head in to forest stay aslong as you like more free camping than any other start
Super proud Victorian here. I live 10km from the city, so very lucky to call this place home.
Love it even more as I'm travelling in Ireland and Scotland at the moment.
yeah getting stuck in traffic jams is great so we can have more unused bike lanes
Another blinkered robot.
I've lived in Sydney, Brisbane & now in the regional area on the outer eastern fringe of Melbourne. All 3 cities are surrounded by easily accessible national parks & the wildlife even makes its way right into many inner areas of the cities. Townsville up in NQ, a larger regional city was the same. A lot of the rivers are brown from tannin from the leaves that have dropped into the water & with the Yarra it is clay soil in the water. Brisbane River is quite brown as well.
Sydney Harbour is amazingly blue and clean.
Yarra River is slime caused by 100 years of chemicals spilled by the rag trade in Collingwood upstream. We say the river ryns upside down, mud on top.
@@68404 Anywhere right along the coast to the nth & sth of Sydney is beautiful as well. Places like the Hawkesbury River shouldn't be forgotten either. I've been lucky, I've moved around a lot & I loved my time living on the Central Coast & in the Blue Mtns too. Spectacular part of the world.
I have seen plenty of wildlife around Townsville too - I like my wildlife NOT to be Crocodiles!
@@68404 Just a slight pitty its surrounded by Sydney
They say the Yarra river runs upside down :)
Food and footy.
Never gets old
Melbourne is the Food, Cultural, Multicultiral, Artistic & Sports CRAZY Capital of Australia - Our coffee is the best in the world ❤️🇦🇺
Sydney is completely surrounded by National Parks. There is a massive natural green belt that's immediately north, west, and south of the CBD and the suburban sprawl. This is a massive protected area well in excess of
one and a half million hectares. The Blue Mountains World Heritage area is over a million hectares on its own. Where I live in Sydney's southern suburbs, my property borders the Royal National Park (the world's second oldest.) Melbourne and Brisbane have a few small National parks but they are much further away.
Melbourne people don't care about nature. They only care about coffee and AFL.
The Ku Ring Gai Chase National Park is much more spectacular than the Royal.
My favourite thing to do is go to the Rugby league …Melbourne Storm …gotta get to a game if you never have
Controversy to come but, as you asked, Canberra has the most accessible and nearby wildlife. Yeah, we’re inland and aren’t a “population centre” but in terms of having an Australian wildlife “experience” I can’t top this.
Friends came from the US and all she wanted to see was a Kangaroo. We took her on a 30 minute drive and she saw about 50 kangaroo, 2 koala, about 500 parrots and birds she’d never imagined and a platypus. You can’t do that by the ocean in the bigger cities.
Just 25 minutes out of Melbourne you have Brimbank Park, where you're guaranteed to see plenty of native wild fauna roaming around, including wedge tailed eagles, echidnas, kangaroos, wallabies, koalas, rosellas, etc.. Not to mention the abundance of fruit bats and possums wandering the city at night.
Canberra sucks.
Completely agree. We choose to live in the country nearby but as a Queenslander, it's Canberra for me!
Rubbish, the wildlife centre in Adelaide is incredible and very interactive - and it's never overcrowded! 👍 And "10 minutes" from Hobart there are platypus streams, mountain walks, the best diverse botanical gardens and epic historical buildings! 🤨
@@jenniferharrison8915 Nobody cares about Adelaide so it doesn't matter ;)
I grew up in Melbourne, wonderful place. Now I live outside Bendigo, which is a wonderful town. Bendigo was once the wealthiest city in the world. There is just as much Gold under Bendigo as they took out. Under Bendigo is the consistency of a Malteaser, honeycombed with gold mines.
My girlfriends and myself have weekend holidays in Bendigo, we love it. Speaking of gold around there, you’d know about The Welcome Stranger Nugget. My great grandfather was a member of parliament during federation , Minister of Mines, his name, Henry Foster MLA, is on the monument. Just a bit of trivia/ family history lol
Bendigo or Ballarat.
Not sure which had the highest wealth.
GOLD was everywhere.
@@MelodyMan69 I don’t know either, Welcome Stranger Nugget was gigantic, must look into that. Love reading interesting information
I live in Bendigo. I have a quartz reef running under my house, and a capped mine shaft 3 houses up from me. If only my land could tell tales! It’s a wonderful place to live. Lots of history, beautiful gardens and parks, architecture. The still being built Buddhist Stupa out of town is a fabulous place to visit.
Southbank is expensive for eating, it’s really a tourist place. You can walk just over the bridge and get food from all over the world at reasonable prices
Melbourne is definitely my favourite city, but I may be biased coz I live there. Hoo roo.
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Linda
The laugh of the kookaburra brings me joy. They visit my garden. I love them to bits. ❤ Melbourne is my home. I wouldn't live anywhere else. The Ranges are close by. They're beautiful.
Food, coffee, the arts scene, music scene, and sport are the main reasons I love living in Melbourne. And the Great Ocean Road is not far away. I often camp up on the Murray during the summer and it's only 3-4 hours away.
I'm fortunate enough to live right in the middle of the Dandenong Ranges. Whether I want to or not, I wake up every morning to the sound of the kookaburras.
We don't have kangaroos in our part, but we do have wallabies, wombats, echidna, and lyrebirds to name but a few native animals. There are plenty of introduced species like foxes, rabbits, and deer (yes, you read that right).
Absolutely love the Dandenong Ranges,I’m in my 60s and through summer my very large family along with many other family friends would be at the beach but come the cooler weather and it was always up to the Dandenong’s we’d all head,such fond memories and my personal favourite was the hillbilly ( what would now be called concerts I think) at one tree hill and then the long walk up and back ( we just called it the track ) no idea what it’s called these days,loved your comment as it brought back so many happy memories 🇦🇺
I live in suburban Sydney, I have daily Kookaburras visits to my balcony, bush turkeys nesting in my backyard, Magpies, crows, parrots, cockatoos, and many others ... Not exactly rare! 😏
The narattor obviously didnt witness the western suburbs of Melbourne....oh he missed out 😂
By the age of 25 I had done 2 laps of the planet and I honestly don’t think I would live anywhere else especially since the internet connects me to anywhere. As far as the most livable city “ that was a while ago now and is expensive to live in. The exchange rate for the US$ or UK£ is great for tourists but a problem for us if travelling or buying online. Petrol is double the US prices which made me laugh when they were whining not long ago. Definitely a great place if you can afford it.
I live in Sydney. I should bad-mouth Melbourne but I can't. Ok it can have shite weather and is known for 4 seasons in a day, which is why British folk should be quite comfortable. But it has a great pub scene, cafe scene, and restaurant scene. And it has hands down the greatest souvlaki outside of Greece. It has some of the greatest entertainment and sports venues too.
You only care about man-made entertainment. The natural beauty of Sydney is vastly superior.
Melbourne is best for coffee.
Yeah nah, kookaburra's don't call at night and we love them and don't find them creepy at all AND they eat snakes. Ripper.
The US gold lasted 1 year here it kept on going as the surface gold run out it was then followed underground hence you have cities like Bendigo and Ballarat built to support the mines and gold is still found there.
Melbourne is totally the best city in the world. I have lived here my whole life so may be a little biased, but it is the best!!
I’m a Melburnian.
Favourite things to do in the city include watching the footy at the MCG (but not Marvel Stadium so much) and having a meal and drinks with friends in Richmond or Southbank.
For nature my favourite areas are the Great Ocean Road (2-3 hrs out of Melbourne) and the Mornington peninsula (1 hour out). Also love Albert Park - home of the F1 Grand Prix.
Never seen much nature, have you.
6:38 Unlike the UK, the Royal Navy didn’t cut down all the trees to build ships!
he went to a doggies game 😊
I've lived in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. Melbourne was definitely the best - a great place to live
The world great food in Melbourne
I live in Bendigo...we have a huge Chinese Museum here and it is well worth a look. Also just north of Bendigo we have a huge Buddhist Temple, one of the biggest in the world. (This is on my bucket list as i have yet to visit it.)
Heh I'm from Bendigo as well :)
Melbourne got the best coffee in the world
Melbourne is a great city, but in saying that, Brisbane is wildly underrated and runs a close second for me
Melbourne's got all the sports here afl Australian open to the world tennis tournament horse raising car raising all types of sports in Melbourne
The Victorian gold rush was one of the largest in history. The population of Melbourne increased from 23,000 in 1851 to over 300,000 in 1865. The largest nugget 'The Welcome Stranger' was found in Moliagul. Many Victorian towns began from gold mining rushes there. Melbourne was titled the world's most prosperous city due to the amount of gold being found and money being spent on development of the city.
Victoria was separated from NSW just before the gold rush - deliberately!
Australia has the most national parks in the world. 3% of Australia is parks. New South Wales and Queensland have mid 230s of national parks the most out of all the states. Around 600 in all for all states added. Top that off thousands of parks would be all over the Australian territory.
I live in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne. Family members have lived here for 135 years. It is the best.
Wildlife is all over every city. I had a shingleback lizard in my kitchen a few weeks ago.
You can still pan for gold in different towns throughout the country.
🥰 home
I think Melbourne has perhaps the friendliest Australian CBD design but the Gold Coast hinterland (and North Queensland) has the best local wilderness options.
The 1800's gold rush was huge in Australia.
Highest rate of homeless people in Australia. Go for a walk down Swanston Street and you'll be tripping over them
First like. Wahooooooo
I've lived in Melbourne for over 60 years with a few stints interstate there is so much to do in Victoria you can never get bored there is so much you can do from the Yarra Valley to Phillip Island to the Dandenong Mountains or the Surf Coasts there is always something to do here Snow in winter if that's your thing to heaps to do during summer and all 1 to 3 hours from the suburbs
Melbourne is the food capital of Australia and has one of the only 2 Australian restaurant ranked in the world's top fifty restaurants. There is also one nearby in the city of Greater Geelong.
The largest gold nugget was found in Victoria called the lonesome stranger I can't remember the exact weight but it was like three foot tall by about a foot wide
I live in Melbourne and have lived here for decades. I do not agree that it is a most liable city any longer. On the contrary. We have a housing crisis with both rents and housing prices amongst the highest in the world. Homelessness has always been very high, but now is extreme. The cost of living is now extreme. The ever increasing cost of energy, fuel, food, in addition to housing, is creating a growing underclass. Very many working people are struggling to buy food and postpone going to a doctor. Our once good Medicare system is now a shambles due to successive years of neglect by conservative Australian governments. Our universities have been forced to rely on full fee paying international students for funding. There has been an explosion of very low paid, insecure and often, dangerous jobs . These are often the only work options, especially for immigrants. These problems are Australia wide and not specifically in Melbourne.
Don't believe the tourist marketing rubbish.
Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree
Merry merry king of the bush is he
Laugh, kookaburra laugh
Kookaburra gay your life must be
❤
I would say it is the most livable city in the world
However, costs are increasing so things are rip
The Aussie gold rush started in 1851... before the American one....
Melbourne is considered the Foodie and coffee capital of Australia...
If you're after native bush close to cities... Canberra is built to have bush areas less than twenty metres away, no matter which suburb you currently in.
The American gold rush started in 1848. Three years before the Oz Gold Rush.
Every state/city has different vibes and flora/fauna….eg koalas are east coast dwellers…NT and WA have lots of desert landscape, so different animals..
Definitely watch the Roos from a distance. I had a rescued little joey attack me as a kid and it hurt! I could only cover my face while the adults tried to remove him.
The narrators not Australia from the sound of his accent but he says Melbourne the way we say it here in Melbourne. As for alcohol being expensive that is true if your buying it from bars and pubs, if you go to the local liquor store (Dan Murphy) and buy your drinks to take home it's reasonable, what you would pay $12 a bottle/can in a pub or bar for you will buy it from the local liquor store for around $3.60. To buy a carton of Jim Beam cans (24 cans) will cost you $89, sometimes on sale for around $80, to buy the same amount of cans from a bar or pub at an average price of $12 a can it'll cost you $288, this is why tourists always say drinks are expensive in Australia, Pubs and bars over charge by 4 times!
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Melbourne is the most multicultural city in Australia you can get the world tripe of food
I love Melbourne. It has a bitof everything.
Trains and trams are good and they are being further developed as the city is now bigger than Sydney. On the down-side, the roads are getting more and more crowded and traffic can be nasty most hours of the day. We have so much "green space/parks" around the city and suburbs - big THANKYOU to our early town planners!! Bendigo and Ballarat in the middle of Victoria are the two main "gold mining" towns of yesteryear. In the late 1880s Melbourne was the most prosperous city in the world (so they say) for a short time because of the gold rush.
More sprawl yes, but not more populous than Sydney. Even by 2050 it's debatable if Melbourne will even reach parity with Sydney despite media pundits trying to romanticise the notion of a bigger Melbourne. Come to Sydney and that notion will quickly leave your mind. Melbourne is light years behind Sydney's breakneck speed and hustle and bustle
When it comes to nature, Queensland than New South Wales
Leaveable. They meant leaveable. Damn autocorrect.
I might have to visit it again. I haven't been there for more than 10 years. Whenever I've been there in the past, I always thought it was a s#!@hole. Maybe it's changed.
Oh... and whenever I used to visit, I noticed that the road rules appear to be optional to a small percentage of the locals (one of them was even a mate of mine - he went into the turning lane to go straight ahead at the lights).
Yeah, all the cities in Australia have bush and wildlife around them.
Every city I’m Australia has great abundance of wildlife, it all depends on what you want to do and see, 1 1/2 hours drive from most major cities you’ll find something unique and beautiful. We have a rivalry here but one thing anyone from abroad should understand is we are all Australian and welcoming and respectful.
My father was born in a colonial island call Mauritius my mother has 5 generations from the UK, being darker than most and the slurs I received as a child in the 80’s most people here are wonderfully accepting of migrant, refugees and In general anyone coming to Australia. Do I think Melbourne is the most liveable city? Global index surely can’t be wrong! We love our country, skiing season on the flattest continent we have it, temperate Mediterranean weather? We have it, dessert so hot few choose to live there? Yup, golden beaches? White pure silica beaches? Volcanic black beaches? Even a beach called rainbow!! We’ve got it , the tallest flowering tree in the world guess where you’ll find that?
I've lived in 4 Oz cities & IMO Melbourne is the best. Interesting history bc of the 1850s gold rush. Lots of parks & gardens, cafes, big events, and overall, a different feel from other places in Oz.
The Yarra (not Yah-ra like the narrator said 🙄) is only brown near the sea bc urban development has disturbed the sediment. It's much clearer upstream.
He's been to Melbourne already, how does correcting pronunciation help him? Ballarat and Bendigo are a long way from Melbourne, and are just tourist towns!
fIona Elm…I grew up in Sydney in the sixties… it was and always has the history and wow factor …. A lovely place in those days, transport worked on time and reliable , some twenty years later transport less efficient …?am I in Asia or Sydney?….Melbourne was a fab place years ago.. endless heritage now twenty years later much heritage destroyed , replaced by the usual soulless concrete blocks one sees in china…along with the fact the premier is a commie dictator . Do your research…Western Australia is at the moment the best place to be … low population , easier to live near the ocean, friendly people … just abide by the basic rules and it’s a good life … lots of happy people here and yes they still love there heritage
Melbourne IS Australia's nicest city and the food and little 'eateries' all over the place are wonderful in every way. Canberra is the worst but Sydney has gone downhill in a big way in the past couple of decades.
2.5 million population it was liveable. 5 million it is unbearable
Read 'Picinic at Hanging Rock' tells about a disappearance of girls- spooky. Gold Rush made Australia the richest city in 1856
Did it ever occur to you yo watch an AUSTRALIAN opinion on our cities instead of American? I was born, educated, married and became a mother in Brisbane, Queensland.
Best cities in my view are:
1 Canberra
2 Melbourne
3 Adelaide
4 Sydney
5 Hobart
6 Perth
7 Brisbane
8 Darwin
BUT we choose to live in the country and commute to Canberra for work. Much more civilised than ANY coty!
I love living in Melbourne. It's by far the best city to live in Australia. The CBD is a true city, with movement, hustle and bustle, and people everywhere
Unfortunately the ‘cool’ street art just becomes ugly tagging, really ghastly at times. If you can go outside the ‘progressive’ or hipster area, you’ll see wonderful gardens, amazing parks and better priced food and friendlier people. Ballarat and Bendigo, the gold towns, are wonderful to visit
Sorry - climate is ultra important to me for a city to be liveable. Poor Melbourne doesn’t cut it.
Hi my favourite thing about Melbourne is going to the football and I love going to The Dandenongs which is only a 10 minute drive from here. Oh yeah I forgot to tell you that Melbourne was the richest city in the world at the turn of the 20th century after the gold rush.
I was born and raised in Sydney and I have lived in or near every Capitol City including stupid Canberra but not Darwin. I have lived most of my life in Melbourne because it is magic. We have moved 39 times for my husband’s work, we have tried to always keep a home in Victoria. Three of my children refuse to leave it and the other has mostly lived in Cairns. We are retired on a beach near Bundaberg QLD but right now I am freezing to death in country Victoria. Someone convinced my husband to un-retire and work for 7 weeks while the boss he was replacing went back to Scotland for a wedding. No one can do what my husband did and no one is training new people.
Melbourne will always own our hearts. I will never go back to Sydney but I will always love the Harbour, Opera House, bridge and my favourite ferry to the zoo. Melbourne is the most livable City anywhere and I love her trams. We used to have two luxury trams that were restaurants and they toured the City while you had Dinner. I don’t think they came back since Covid. I love the free trams in the City. I love the bus that has free showers, toiletries and clothing if any homeless need it. I love the cafe’s and restaurants in the little Streets and Alleys. My daughter is always in there at night. Either eating whatever Countries Street food from vans in Federation Square in Winter or at her most loved Korean Restaurant. There is one Cafe she loves where all of the walls are covered in post it notes. Almost everyone who buys coffee or a hot meal pays for two. They write it on a post it note for those to take who can’t afford it.
No City can beat the Culture from Art Galleries, Museums, Stage Shows and Music. Or sport, just about every sport. NSW does beat them in Rugby League and I still have my teams in both States. AFLand NRL.
You can go in many directions and be in the Country not far from Melbourne. It is an hour from the Ski fields, an hour and 40 minutes from the Dandenong Ranges. When our first three were small we went to the Dandenong’s at least twice a month because there is so much to do there. It also snows there and they loved it. We ended up moving down the Peninsula on 2 acres of gardens, we had plenty of wild life in our gardens day and night. I always have to be near or be able to see the ocean. My son and family live right at the bottom of Victoria overlooking the ocean. I have taught my kids to never go far from the sea.
As Cities go I don’t like Brisbane, Canberra or Perth. I do love all of the suburbs around Perth, the light there is different and it is beautiful. Every time I tried to go into Perth it was closed. If I cannot live in a City at night I don’t like it so they need to open some businesses. Brisbane is blah and I don’t like what Sydney has become. There is no one home in Canberra. Adelaide isn’t a huge City but it is pretty and the streets make sense. It was planned on a perfect square grid so anyone can drive there.
The Yarra river flows upside down
Melbourne was livable ... before Dan the Useless stuffed it all up
"Kookaburra bird" - far more interesting than the kookaburra trees or the kookaburra tigers. :P
It was for many years... until the sudanese came here and brought their problems around, with young sudanese gangs breaking into houses stealing cars and the title was taken from melbourne because of the crimes around 2017,. The safety rating dropped. But it was in the suburbs.
Didn't know Peter Dutton had time to watch YT videos 🙄
@@FionaEm In denial?
How's that 18 year old boy who was stabbed in Sunshine yesterday faring?
Nothing to see here, move along.
@@FionaEm lol you saying it does not happen??? Baseball bats were being sold out in some places, and the news had to stop mentioning the race, but security cameras shows everything.
You one of those "give young black criminals more rights" (which are always sudanese) like the 19yr old sudanese who threatened to kill a female cop while leaving court after stealing cars and cant be charged????
When the nigerians moved here many yrs before the sudanese they did everything to fit in and are beautiful people. Its not about race, its about culture.
Gday from WA
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This pronunciation of the Melbourne name places is giving me the shits
Mate you can google search for these videos.
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Melbourne is the most European city in Australia. It was voted the worlds most liveable city 7 years running.
He said he didn’t care for the brown colour of the Yarra, as if we decided to go with the brown instead of another colour.
To be honest the video was meh. It was a dull voice over and never really captured the vibe of the city.
Melbourne is a chilled city sydney however is not. It’s loud, it’s full of tourists and the locals are arrogant and full of themselves because they have the harbour. Yes I’m from Melbourne and I’m biased but I haven’t seen Sydney win the worlds most liveable city even once.
Climate change did not set off the Australian bush fires.
Australia has always been prone to bush fires in the summer months.
Yes, nature everywhere you go, even in the cities. I live 20 mins from the city (Sydney) there are always swans etc,. in the Bay I live close to. Hmm .....Sydneysiders & Melbournians are rivals, so I can't say too much. I have enjoyed all my 6 trips to Melbourne...only drove a hired car once - that was enough, with trams everywhere, driving as an outsider is a bit terrifying 😅
No nature around Melbourne.
@@NoTaboos That's a shame....Haven't been to Melbourne for about 6 years now & come to think of it, never saw any birds in the city centre like you see here