Aside from the shitty f**king weather and prevalence of AFL gayness in the anus?
1. I prefer Melbourne weather to Sydney weather. I don't like hot weather, the colder the better IMO.
2. Firstly, I like AFL, secondly I was comparing the two purely as cities. The important things like infrastructure and public transport. I wasn't taking into account cultural differences. If you have Fox and are willing to pay to attend games which involve 2 of the all time greats you can watch the Storm in person every second week and watch heaps of games live on tv every week.
When I move to Melbourne I'll be attending at least one game of NRL or AFL every weekend. Because I'm a more evolved species of human and I like every major sport in Australia.
Wrong, the Melbourne CBD is better than Sydney's, but that's only because Sydney's was built around a port.
There's a reason Sydney is the most populated it's the most centrally located and in terms of things within 60k radius of the CBD Sydney shits all over any other city in terms of convenience. Tonnes of great beaches (way more than Melbourne) and tonnes of nature shit. Then there's the awesome facilities.
You couldn't be more wrong if you tried.
Sydneys major road network looks like a genius threw paint randomly against the wall and used that pattern as a blueprint to build the road system.
It is a million times easier to get around Melbourne. You've probably never been to Melbourne but just look at it on google maps. The roads are actually designed intelligently and logically. In Melbourne you get on a major road and it's a straight line to the CBD. In Sydney roads go in all sorts of random directions because it was built with absolutely no long term thinking in mind.
You mention facilities. In Sydney if those facilities are not in your immediate area they are a major pain to get to.
And population, Melbourne is growing at a faster pace than Sydney for a reason. I've heard a demographer estimate Melbourne's population will pass Sydneys within 25 years.
