Give me a sales pitch for Melbourne.......

[tracy123]

We have fantastic surf beaches within an hour of the city and the beaches of Port Phillip Bay are simply sensational and very, very safe

I think Harrold Holt would disagree!!! lol (prime minister of Australia who went for a swim and never came back!!!)

[builda]

Since he is not here to disagree with me, I will clarify for all the now terrified future aussies who are now looking to live in Alice Springs, or as far away from the beach as possible!

Harold Holt swam at an isolated and unpatrolled back beach at Portsea - insane at the best of times - those beaches are awesome to look at and walk along but simply not safe for swimming.

If he had have got his chaufeur to drive 10minutes to the very, very safe bay beach at Portsea or Sorrento then the course of Australias political history would have been altered completely.

[tracy123]

Originally Posted by builda

Since he is not here to disagree with me, I will clarify for all the now terrified future aussies who are now looking to live in Alice Springs, or as far away from the beach as possible!

Harold Holt swam at an isolated and unpatrolled back beach at Portsea - insane at the best of times - those beaches are awesome to look at and walk along but simply not safe for swimming.

If he had have got his chaufeur to drive 10minutes to the very, very safe bay beach at Portsea or Sorrento then the course of Australias political history would have been altered completely.

Alice is no good to many spiders and snakes, and the crocs are not to far away? rather be in Melbourne just need to swim between the flags!!!!!

[junan70]

Just gonna throw my penneth's in.

I went on a round the world trip last year. After travelling from Sth America, I flew to Cairns and then bussed it down to Brissy and then flew to Melbourne 'for a bit' ...before heading off to Adelaide, Uluru, Perth etc.

Only I didn't quite make it. I got into Melbourne and stayed there!! Didn't budge for 5 weeks, just loved the place.

Sydney harbour has the 'wow' and Melbourne has the 'Mmmmmmm....lovely, this'll do me'.

I'm now planning/hoping to go to uni in Aus and I admit that I've just been on a bit of a reccie to Perth (got family there) and Sydney (loved it when travelling) and didn't even bother with Melbourne because the weather can be iffy...BUT the more I thought about it, the more research I did, I've come back to the idea of Melbourne after all.

Suburbs are nicer than Sydney (at least in my budget) trams are great, trains are great, coffee is great, parks are superb and plentiful, scenery is fantastic, food brilliant, supermarkets are....well crap frankly but then that's Aus for ya!

There's more than enough there to keep me happy and if after a couple of years I fancy moving on, then so be it. Something tells me that I won't be tho!

[Brickie]

Originally Posted by tracy123

and the crocs are not to far away?

Yeah only about 2000 miles away...got to be careful of them crocs as they can run like buggery.....