thoughts on Melbourne

[Apey]

BunniesMan wants to move to Melbourne. Another positive.

 

[dogslife]

Well it's not like he'd falsify anything...

 

[madunit]

Sydney and Melbourne compare where it matters (amenities etc). Sydney is a significantly larger city in physical area which means it has quite ott urban sprawl and thus has a disadvantage in things like public transport.

However Sydney has beaches and rugby league and is therefore better even with urban sprawl. Plus people in Sydney pronounce words correctly..

Melbourne used to have a pretty large advantage in nightlife but over the last ten years the city of Sydney has improved in that area.

thanks.

You'll find now though that Melbourne's urban sprawl is really picking up to the North and West. The train system's are already in place to most of these areas, the test will be when the population demands more services and more frequent services, especially in the summer.

Pronouncing words is a dumb argument. All Australian's pronounce words incorrectly if we are going to go down that avenue.

 

[dogslife]

Never been to Paris. Won't bother either. They don't follow rugby league and don't have any beaches.

f**k that was easy.

 

[cleary89]

Been to Paris 3 times. Haven't been to Melbourne.

 

[Pete Cash]

Paris is alright but I wouldn't want to live there. There are a couple of cities I'd live in over Sydney because they are simply better. New York is one and they don't play rugby league there. Think of rugby league as the tie breaker between Sydney and Melbourne.

 

[umina panther]

Paris was by FAR the shitest place I visited in Europe. Never been to Melbourne but would love to go to the boxing day test and the cup

 

[cleary89]

Paris was by FAR the shitest place I visited in Europe. Never been to Melbourne but would love to go to the boxing day test and the cup

Boxing day test or a st george game are pretty much the only reason I'd go.

f**k the cup, if I wanted to see bogans I'd go to wet and wild.

 

[Pete Cash]

You would see plenty on parent teacher night

 

[Sans Souci Sainter]

Boxing day test or a st george game are pretty much the only reason I'd go.

f**k the cup, if I wanted to see bogans I'd go to wet and wild.

AAMI Stadium is a great RL venue.

C'mon down this year Clears and meet up with the MBDS, we'll fix that cow bell once and for all.

 

[cleary89]

Monday night ruins that plans

 

[STORM.99/07]

Nothing wrong with their beaches, some of the best surf in Oz, Bells, Joanha, Port Campbell and Phillip Is.

Lived there for ages (not in Melbourne) and its like a different country in some respects and AFL is their religion, they are as pig headed about League as we are about AFL so its kind of ironic in a way.

They have virtually a different dialect, particularly the words pastie and castle and a few others.

We say carstle, they say castle. We say parstie they say pastie.

I am a Melbourne girl living in sadelaide and I always get corrected if I say carstle instead of castle or parstie instead of pastie. I have been converted to Melbourne Storm from afl. League is more exciting.

 

[Suitman]

Been to Paris 3 times. Haven't been to Melbourne.

Been to Paris 3 times. Been to Melbourne 7 times.
How anyone can compare the two cities is beyond me.
Paris shits all over it.

Suity

 

[seaeagle sam]

Paris, one of the world's great historic cities....

But it's dirty, it smells and the people talk funny.

 

[thorson1987]

People saying Melbourne is like a cult when it comes to AFL haven't spent much time in Adelaide.

You wouldn't even know Rugby League existed down there.

 

[Garbler]

The one time I went to Melbourne it pretty much lived up to my expectations. Which were not very high. I don't do cities though. I know some great Victorians but the more annoying kind seriously have an inferiority complex with Sydney (Like OP I too have encountered the "Melbourne is way better than Sydney").

Some interesting things I noted from my visit:

- The male tour guide mentioned how good looking the AFL players are as we passed the stadium at Geelong. It was a slightly cringe worthy moment as he was probably straight but just so enamoured with their code of choice...

- The sports section for the local paper ran an op-ed piece congratulating the NRL on setting up a commission, but concluded that the AFL will always be better managed and a better sport. Was odd how they managed to get so defensive about something as obscure as another code's internal management structure.

- Oddly enough I saw more ppl wearing Storm gear in the CBD than AFL supporter gear. Not sure what was the go with that, it wasn't footy season when I went down though? I think one of the guys wearing a Storm cap was homeless, if he was in a btw position in life he may have had the sense to not wear it.

 

[Stagger Lee]

Just spent 4 nights in Melbourne in early Jan.

Public transport is fantastic, no doubt one of the main reasons that they have massive crowds to sporting events. Why they have had the MIKI card for years and we have only started with the Opal card

Night life is still better than Sydney though Sydney is getting better.

St kilda / south Melbourne beach is not fit to be compared to Sydney.

No doubt about it Sydney is the more beautiful city but Melbourne is the most livable.

 

[Evenflow]

However, the big problem is not with the city but with the people themselves. Most of them must have some sort of inferiority complex over Sydney. After people asked me where I came from, they immediately replied "Melbourne is better than Sydney".

If you or anyone else doesn't think the reverse happens when Melbournians make the trip north to Sydney then you're either deluded or just plain ignorant.

We go to Sydney at least twice a year to see Storm games and always enjoy it and it's a very rare occurrence that we don't cop exactly the same up there. That's not to say it's in a malicious way or anything like that but it happens virtually every trip. Just because you might not do it and nor do i, that doesn't mean there's any shortage of people that do.

 

[redvscotty]

Never been to Melb, would like to visit one day.

Brisbane is better anyway.

 

[meltiger]

People talk up the public transport in Melbourne. Interested to know whether this is an apples to apples comparison.

ie. People who travel to Melbourne rarely leave the inner city. People who chuck tantrums about public transport in Sydney are often travelling from the outskirts.

1 million times this.

If you live in old Melbourne, public transport is fantastic. Live outside the tram system though and it's a different story.

One thing we have over Sydney is a fully integrated ticketing system, but Opal will fix that somewhat?

Personally, I'm lucky. I don't live on the tram network but am close enough that home is a 20 buck cab ride. From experience of living in both cities though, getting to work at Wynard from Parramatta was a breeze comparatively to the equivalent in Melbourne.

Although those knocking chicken Parmas - C'mon now