What's so bad about Melbourne?

tracy hunt · 11-04-2007, 10:56 AM

Just read a few threads where people have said negative things about Melbourne.
What's so bad about it? :confused:

jonseywife · 11-04-2007, 11:18 AM

Dont take any notice of them Tracey............ The're just jealous !!!!!!!!
Mind you, I did wonder myself at one point, as everyone heads every where else.... I have put the post on myself a couple of times !!!!
I think its just a bit of inocent banter. A few of us have all been winding each other up on here for a while anout Brisbane being the best!!!! Ive heard that people form Sydney hate people from Melbourne and vice versa and people from Adelaide hate everyone !!!! tee hee !!!!

Well they hav'nt mamanged to put me off yet.... Im still heading that way and im sure Lesley will have something to say about it too!!! Over to you Lesley.....

Sally-Ann xxxxxx

THE JONEZYS · 11-04-2007, 12:48 PM

I've already replied to a pm Tracy sent me on this subject.
Just wait till you get here Sal' then you will see why they are all sooooooo jelouse!!!
Lesley

Georgie · 11-04-2007, 03:19 PM

Hi
Things do wind me up about Melbourne but having lived in Perth and Brisbane (only lived in Adelaide as a baby but went to visit as a teenager and it looked pretty but dont know anything else about it)I certainly think melbourne is the better place to be IMO. Cant really comment about Sydney or Hobart(or Adelaide really). I am suprised that so many people venture to Brisbane as it really is horrendously humid in summer. The only reason i can think is that people are told Melbourne is cold and it never is really mentioned on British TV that much. Melbourne has fantastic weather (maybe too hot in summer at times). They have so much culture and i like the fact it is very cosmopolitan. Great beaches as well. Though i wish the lakes and rivers were cleaner to swim in. I posted negative things in another thread as i was asked what was rubbish about Australia? But as i have said there are many good things too. Especially in Melbourne. So come and see for yourself you can always move somewhere else if you dont like it. I think it will take a few years to see and do everything that Melbourne and Victoria has to offer.
Georgie

dwaldron · 11-04-2007, 06:05 PM

I have had the benefit of living in Adelaide for 16 years (since birth), 1 year in Melbourne and 8 years in Sydney. I really love Sydney but it is awfully busy and you do need to be exceedingly rich to live in a nice area.

I'm probably biased about Adelaide having grown up there, but for me it is too small. It does however have great food & wine and is probably a great place to grow up.

I've always had fun in Melbourne, there's so much to do, the people are a bit more laid back than Sydney. I'm moving to Melbourne because property prices are quite reasonable and public transport quite good.

I did a two week reccie to Brisbane last year for my partner's visa validation trip and we rented a townhouse and essentially lived as Brisbanites for 10 days. I have to say that although it's a pretty city and the weather was great, it lacked the culture that you see in Adelaide, and even more so in Melbourne.

I have been to Perth for a week and thought that it was great but for me, far too remote.

That's my experience in these cities anyway. I have found my five years in Manchester quite fun, trips around Europe & the UK and enjoying fresh scenery, but I now find the UK too densely populated and I get frustrated by too many things (like having to register with a GP near my home, not my work and post office queues!!!).

Perhaps it's because I'm about to hit 40 but I just want an acre of heavily wooded land to relax in on the weekends and to be able to grow vegetables for more months of the year than here.

Whew.

dwaldron · 11-04-2007, 06:16 PM

Sorry, that should read that Adelaide is probably a good place for KIDS to grow up - I don't think it will affect immature adults at all!

Lazy Cow · 12-04-2007, 01:33 AM

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Originally Posted by dwaldron

Sorry, that should read that Adelaide is probably a good place for KIDS to grow up - I don't think it will affect immature adults at all!

Spot on!

Yes Sally-Anne is quite right "people from Adelaide hate everyone ". It's because we are the best, obv. Mind you, I think Sally-Anne was also right (grr) when she says it's just banter. It's an inter-state thing! My friend lives in Melbourne, with her family, and she's never regretted it, thinks it's fab and wouldn't move.

So don't worry, it's all a matter of personal taste. If Melbourne-ians have any that is!

LC

tracy hunt · 12-04-2007, 06:56 AM

Thanks for your comments and your pm Lesley. Thank goodness that I don't need to start researching areas all over again!

xx

Missiemo · 12-04-2007, 01:24 PM

Yes that is correct, I have friends in Adelaide who have said they are the most unfriendliest bunch of people she has ever had to live with, and a friend who has just moved back from WA saying it has no character and even less humour.

Every thing about Melbourne is great, friendly people, great humour, loads to do and the best city in Australia.

Mo

x

Fraser · 12-04-2007, 11:12 PM

I live just outside Melbourne and do a lot of travelling around the country.

I would struggle to live in metropolitan Sydney... too expensive for decent housing..and too busy. Sydney has lots of nice suburbs if you don't mind a commute. ..and there are lots of really good bits in regional NSW too.. especially the south coast (Merrimbula, Bega, Bermagui, Eden kind of areas... South of Woollongong)

Adelaide is just a great big country town. I wouldn't mind living there... and the coastal areas south of Adelaide are just sublime (Victor Harbour etc)

Perth is just beautiful...in fact the whole of WA is..... Right from Broome (Even if the north is a bit hot & sweaty..) down to Esperence ... just a bit far from the rest of Aus for me though... 3.5 hours by plane for Melb or Sydney... (think London - Jerusalem... Australia is BIG!!!))

Queensland is just a bit humid and sweaty for me... but a great place for a holiday, and the Barrier reef is a real wonder of teh world... and a must-do trip for any new Aussie.

Tasmania is just gorgeous, and looks a bike like the Lake District in summer. I love it. I might even retire there some day.

NT? Fine if you like solitude, digging holes or showering a lot, and don't mind mozzies or crocs.....

...but, as I say... and having been there, seen that... I still choose to live in Vic... Nr Melbourne... but not in it. Melb is great and I love having the facilities easiliy to hand... but I am not a city-dweller! ....so .... get out of the mindset that says you need to live in a capital city...Australia's regional towns and cities are even better.... especially those within, say, an hour to an hour and a half from a capital city... all the best lifestyle, none of the city grief...cheaper housing, bigger houses, larger gardens..

So, for Vic, Think about Geelong, Ballarat, Bendigo... or any of the small towns between each of those and Melbourne.

...Or one of the inland, but riverside towns along the Mighty Murray: Albury (NSW), Wodonga, Shepparton, Mildura (Vic) Lots and lots to choose from

...Or the coastal towns in Vic (Port Fairy, Portland, Warrnambool)

Think outside that box!