Melbourne V Sydney

*cough cough* And what? Adelaide doesn't even make it into the competition? I'm pretty Adelaide OWNS Melbourne and Sydney (well, not literally). I mean, we're "The City of Churches" and what do you have? An oversized bridge and a good tram system? Case closed

 

Here's the list of advantages of Melbourne from the other thread.

^OK there's one mistake with that. Chadstone isn't the largest shopping center in the southern hemisphere, and Melbourne doesn't have the largest. It has the THREE LARGEST. Knox City Shopping Centre, Fountain Gate Shopping Centre and Chadstone.
And then heaps of Melbournian shopping centres are all over the list.

Also continuing on with the architecture point, six of the ten tallest buildings in Australia are from Melbourne, AND three more buildings which are being built will be in the top ten over the next few years. BTW another mistake, Eureka isn't the tallest residential building in the world. Q1 is, but that's because they stuck a 60M toothpick on top of it. Eureka is the tallest to roof, number of floors and highest habitable floors.

Also Melbourne city isn't all grid-based. The CBD is a grid, and then the newer areas such as Southbank and the Docklands aren't on the grid, but they're still easy to navigate at least.

And talking about navigating around Melbourne, is IS easy! If you get lost, you just need to identify a landmark you know and you'll be easly able to tell where you are.

 

Gold Coast PWNs all.

 

indeed.


tho between melbourne and sydney - i do choose melbourne.

 

Obviously Bendigo is the best of the best............but only because I'm here. =)
I haven't been to Sydney yet, I'll probably try and high jack a few friends this year and take a trip there though. It sucks that none of them are 18 yet though or else I could talk them into going earlier.

 

Jonas Gardell, swedish (and gay) stand-up comedian.
Kind of expresses my feelings towards Australia. And all of its cities.

(It might not be funny if you only read the subtitles, I'm not sure)

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vq3NJfxN2hM[/YOUTUBE]

 

NO.
HELL NO.
DEFINITELY NOT.

Gold Coast is all glitz and glam on the outside but when you go in it's hollow and empty.

Seriously though the GC looks nice but isn't planned out well at all.

 

Great comic timing comes across in any language - he is good.
(But you won't find crocs swimming around the Sydney beaches - or in Melbourne's Yarra river...)

 

Well, probably not. I don't expect to be killed or poisined or eaten if I go to australia, but I use it as a reason not to go there (I don't really have anything against australia, but I dislike travelling).

 

Hey, it's like a 20+ hour flight to get to Sydney or Melbourne.. So I'd applaud anyone who would survive the flight. I've been to Europe a couple of times and the flights killed me. xD

 

Time for someone from NSW to get into the debate

Sydney owns Melbourne

We have the opera house and harbour bridge (better than your trams)

 

We have Knox City, Fountain Gate, Chadstone, Eureka Tower, The Docklands, The ARTS CENTRE...

See Sydney relies on the Opera House and Harbour Bridge to maintain its status, when Melbourne on the other hand has lots more to make it a better overall city.

 

Having been to Sydney I didn't care much for it. The shopping wasn't as good as Melbourne, the people weren't nearly as friendly and things were laid out horribly.
Not even centrepoint tower convinced me.

 

Melbourne has Minus18

 

Actually yeah that's another point! Sydney may have Mardi Gras but we have all the youth events!

 

Im afraid that the people and the city itself just doesn't make up for the differences in climate and terrain.

Actually you know what.

STUFF YOU ALL.

I'm moving to Melbourn!

You win!

 

I've flown four times in my entire life, and I hated it. None of the times were longer than two hours. But I'm 190+ cm tall and didn't get a single chance to stand, wich kind of explains why I don't really like flying.