Melbourne V Sydney

[dictionary]

From the other thread...

Proberly a bit pointless because we all know melbourne is better than sydney.....

[davo-man]

*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

[dictionary]

Well we all know adelaide is an ecconomic backwater.....

[George]

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

- Better and cheaper food
- Nicer people. Sydney people can be rude!
- Has an arts and entertainment culture (Sydney doesn't!!!)
- We host the International Melbourne Comedy Festival, Grand Prix, Moomba and various other festivals
- Our CBD is easier to navigate
- We have trams and not lightrail
- We have Australia's SECOND best university - the University of Melbourne, ranked 22 in the world! (NOW BEFORE ANYONE DISPUTES THIS, PLEASE REFER http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Melbourne) Link below.
- People come down to Melbourne to shop
- We hosted the World Swimming Championships
- AFL comes from Melbourne - much better than that NRL crap
- Our Lord Mayor is John So. Everyone knows that he rocks!
- Sydney is the most polluted capital city in Australia! (Source: "What's good for you")
- Own experience with people with anger management problems coming from Sydney
- Melbourne has better drivers - Sydney drivers have anger management issues (generally, Sydney people are just angry, see above - people who SLAM audit files in rooms and books on desks in an office environment, isn't that right?)
- Traffic is better in Melbourne
- Melbourne has more markets for getting fresh fruit, produce and other cool stuff. There's Queen Victoria, Preston, Prahran, South Melbourne and many more!
- Melbourne is grid layout, north east south west. Sydney is a nauseating rollercoaster.
- Fashionable, friendly. funky, fun, vibe, bars, parks, basically how ugly is George St? How beautiful is Collins St?Adds to our AWESOME nightlife
- We don't have ugly beach riots like Cronulla!
- We also have the national champion football (Melbourne Victory) club... and the countries greatest high school, aptly named, Melbourne High School (also not forgetting MacRob for the girls)
- Better architecture rather than relying on the Harbour and Opera House for everything!
- We have the biggest shopping complex in the southern hemisphere - Chaddy!
- Crown Casino kicks Star City's ass!
- Cheaper booze
- FASHION!
- We have the Eureka Tower - tallest residential building in the world!
- Oscar winner Cate Blanchett comes from Melbourne! (and MLC)
- Public transport is so much damn cheaper!
- We have the Aus Open and Kooyong Classic, which kicks Adidas international tournament's ass :P
- Worst coffee ever in Sydney
- Melbourne doesn't have a stupid monorail!
- More expensive accommodation in Sydney and property in general
- Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival time, not to mention the Melbourne Cup!
- MCG is a much better stadium than SCG
- Well endowed men - note I am ONLY putting up your suggestions so feel free to argue this one with me
- Really great bars
- Monopoly Board which features Melbourne
- Melbourne also has the tallest office building in australia - depending on who you believe - either 120 Collins, Rialto or 101 Collins - they are all taller than any buildings in Sydney
- 7 out of the top 10 Aussie companies have their HQ in Melbourne....BHP, Telstra, ANZ Coles Myer, NAB, FOSTERS
- Melbourne had the first ever cricket test match
- Bigger agricultural show
- The Melbourne Cup and really awesome Spring Carnival
- Bigger Fashion Festivals (Melbourne International)
- Melbourne hosted the first sitting of parliament, before Canberra was established
- Melbourne also has the best fire-twirlers in Aust
melbourne is the sporting capital, all the best sporting people from around the world come to our city
- We were the capital city of Australia before Canberra... They've never been and never will be!
- We hosted the Olympic Games first... They can never take that away from us hahaha
- People go to Sydney to visit, but to Melbourne to Live
- Sydney was designed by criminals, Melbourne by Engineers and Architects
- Melbourne, along with Vancouver, the world's most livable city.
- We have distinctive seasons in Melbourne and get to wear layers.
- Melbourne didn't produce Lara Bingle - so where the bloody hell is she now?
- Dont have Tollgates on freeways
-Melbourne will be Australia's largest city by 2028(therefore makes us better because people actualy want to come here)

^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.

[UnderARock]

Gold Coast PWNs all.

[RENThead]

Originally Posted by UnderARock

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.

[EmperorNero]

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 Video

[George]

Originally Posted by UnderARock

Gold Coast PWNs all.

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.

[TriBi]

Originally Posted by EmperorNero

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)

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...)

[EmperorNero]

Originally Posted by TriBi

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).

[George]

Originally Posted by EmperorNero

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

[Danielle]

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)

[George]

Originally Posted by Parker

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.

[dictionary]

Originally Posted by Parker

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)

If you were going to sydney for a week what would i you do?

It dosent take 7 days to visit 2 icons....

But melbourne is an experience... food..culture..sport...aswell as our own icons (just a little bit less recongnisable) Sothern Cross and Flinders street station, royal exibition center, MCG, Fed Square, Arts Center, eureka.. ect...

[George]

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.

[Micah]

Melbourne has Minus18

[George]

Originally Posted by Micah

Melbourne has Minus18

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

[Gumtree]

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!

[EmperorNero]

Originally Posted by inthecloset

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

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.