Red Rose Posted June 11, 2013 Share Posted June 11, 2013 Will be interesting to hear your views :biggrin: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parley Posted June 11, 2013 Share Posted June 11, 2013 Is that a bit like asking which super model is the least attractive ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Que Sera Sera Posted June 11, 2013 Share Posted June 11, 2013 Can't vote as I've only seen two. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ptp113 Posted June 12, 2013 Share Posted June 12, 2013 Canberra. Overrun by feckin tourists who cant drive and should stay away! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blossom Posted June 12, 2013 Share Posted June 12, 2013 I can't vote as I've only been to six. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 12, 2013 Share Posted June 12, 2013 I would say realistically there are only 2 proper cities - Sydney and Melbourne. All the rest are large towns Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
northshorepom Posted June 12, 2013 Share Posted June 12, 2013 Can't vote as I've only seen two. I doubt there are many here who are really in a position to give an informed opinion. Suspect some of those who are, are the kind of people whose opinion you'd generally want to ignore in any case :wink: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WeegieDave Posted June 12, 2013 Share Posted June 12, 2013 Like others.. Only been to two cities so really not in a position to comment.. There probably isn't many people who have been to all of them and been in each of them long enough to make a proper judgement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul1Perth Posted June 12, 2013 Share Posted June 12, 2013 Been to Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Canberra, Adelaide and a few smaller towns and places like the sunshine coast and Gold Coast. Canberra has nothing that I came to Australia for. It's miles away from the sea and coast and feels like Milton Keynes. All the rest are great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Surf N Turf Posted June 12, 2013 Share Posted June 12, 2013 I would say realistically there are only 2 proper cities - Sydney and Melbourne.All the rest are large towns What's your criteria? Although I should know better by now than to ask such questions. I must not have had my fill of being patronised today It can't be population as Perth, Brisbane and Adelaide are also over a mill. I think I'm correct in saying that only Birmingham and London have populations over the million in the UK. Are the other sixty odd 'cities' in the UK also small towns? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
northshorepom Posted June 12, 2013 Share Posted June 12, 2013 What's your criteria? Although I should know better by now than to ask such questions. I must not have had my fill of being patronised today It can't be population as Perth, Brisbane and Adelaide are also over a mill. I think I'm correct in saying that only Birmingham and London have populations over the million in the UK. Are the other sixty odd 'cities' in the UK also small towns? <Pedant>You're not comparing like with like though. Aussie city populations are based on "Metropolitan area" totals. UK ones are based on the actual local government boundaries. E.g., Manchester metro area is well over a mill (about 2.5 from memory) - but "Manchester" per se is only about 500K or so because it doesn't include Salford, Bury, Bolton, Oldham, Trafford, Tameside etc etc Just sayin' :wink: </Pedant> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmjg Posted June 12, 2013 Share Posted June 12, 2013 No idea, haven't seen them all Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Surf N Turf Posted June 12, 2013 Share Posted June 12, 2013 <Pedant>You're not comparing like with like though. Aussie city populations are based on "Metropolitan area" totals. UK ones are based on the actual local government boundaries. E.g., Manchester metro area is well over a mill (about 2.5 from memory) - but "Manchester" per se is only about 500K or so because it doesn't include Salford, Bury, Bolton, Oldham, Trafford, Tameside etc etc Just sayin' :wink: </Pedant> I'm getting traumatic childhood flashbacks to the many many times when I'd ask my dad an innocent question and be pinned to the spot 40 minutes later while he rustled through his Encyclopaedia Britanicca's. Your kids don't know how lucky they are to grow up in the age of google! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul1Perth Posted June 12, 2013 Share Posted June 12, 2013 I'm getting traumatic childhood flashbacks to the many many times when I'd ask my dad an innocent question and be pinned to the spot 40 minutes later while he rustled through his Encyclopaedia Britanicca's. Your kids don't know how lucky they are to grow up in the age of google! All depends on what page you read on google though. Who knows what the truth is any more. It's easy to make a web page look ultra professional and then put the biggest lies on there. Someone will then use that as part of an argument. Must be true, it's on the net. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quoll Posted June 12, 2013 Share Posted June 12, 2013 It was a toss up between Perth (isolated, hot/cold sterile) and Darwin (isolated,hot, cyclonic) for me but Perth got it in the end because it's not so quintessentially Australian. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starlight7 Posted June 12, 2013 Share Posted June 12, 2013 Canberra or Perth. Perth looks nicer superficially so probably Canberra. Though I would rather live in either of those than Darwin ( a great city) because it is soo hot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Surf N Turf Posted June 12, 2013 Share Posted June 12, 2013 All depends on what page you read on google though. Who knows what the truth is any more. It's easy to make a web page look ultra professional and then put the biggest lies on there. Someone will then use that as part of an argument. Must be true, it's on the net. True dat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest The Pom Queen Posted June 12, 2013 Share Posted June 12, 2013 Hey you missed Cairns off there, although that is my favorite place :wink: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest The Pom Queen Posted June 12, 2013 Share Posted June 12, 2013 I have been to 4 and 5 if you include Cairns, have to say I like rural so like Cairns and Darwin but I prefer Sydney to Melbourne in the larger cities. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starlight7 Posted June 12, 2013 Share Posted June 12, 2013 Cairns isn't a capital though- if you have that you might as well have Bendigo and Ballarat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul1Perth Posted June 12, 2013 Share Posted June 12, 2013 Canberra or Perth. Perth looks nicer superficially so probably Canberra. Though I would rather live in either of those than Darwin ( a great city) because it is soo hot. I worked in Darwin for a month in July and the temperature was just about perfect for me. Escaped the coldest month in Perth, much to my wife's chagrin. I like Darwin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ptp113 Posted June 12, 2013 Share Posted June 12, 2013 I could live in any bar Darwin and Brisbane Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CGERALDH Posted June 12, 2013 Share Posted June 12, 2013 Having moved to Canberra from Bedfordshire (not far from Milton Keynes!) a little over over 3 years ago I must say how impressed I am with it. Our goal was to move to Perth but we couldn't get permanent resident visas (State sponsored) there hence we chose Canberra. The coast is 1 1/2 hours drive away and we drive there almost every 2nd Saturday. My son and I have learnt to surf and have bought boards and wet suits. Canberra is surrounded by bush land, rivers and lakes and the Brindebella mountains are a short drive away. Traffic jams don't exist, unlike in Sydney or Melbourne and the crime rate is very low. It is the sunniest Capital on the East coast. Salaries are higher than anywhere else in Australia and it is a great place to bring up kids. The only similarity to Milton Keynes is that both Canberra and MK have a Costco...Having said all that, I would say Perth has the edge over Canberra but Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane are much less attractive... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CGERALDH Posted June 12, 2013 Share Posted June 12, 2013 Interesting to see that the 2 cities with most votes are actually the best cities in my view...it seems to me that it is necessary to live in Canberra in order to appreciate it.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ptp113 Posted June 12, 2013 Share Posted June 12, 2013 Interesting to see that the 2 cities with most votes are actually the best cities in my view...it seems to me that it is necessary to live in Canberra in order to appreciate it.. I live here and voted against Canberra. The last thing we need is more moving people here, as you'd no doubt understand. Stay away!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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