Australia's prettiest and ugliest city?

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Ross M

Small cities tend to be prettier in my opinion, even Sydney spectacularly beautiful around the harbour descends into incredibly ugly far suburbs. The Gold Coast os a beautiful place made ugly

Dan

That's up to each individual. There is no right or wrong answer.

cc_of_0z

Beauty is such a subjective thing that everyone is going to disagree with everyone else's choices. One persons ugly is another persons hometown, and will be defended to the death it seems. Even so, some cities are prettier than others. Here is what my eye beholds:

Ugliest City: Newcastle, New South Wales.

Newcastle is an industrial city about 2 hours drive north of Sydney on the New South Wales mid-north to central coast. Looking north across its port from the city are the ugly remains of refineries and other former industrial glories from years past. The last time I visited, residents of the city abandoned their own city centre in favour of suburban malls and outer city entertainment venues. Its like a ghost town at midday. What buildings that are there are pretty typical of an industrial city, with more thought given to function than form. Despite Newcastle being the ugly duckling of the nation, its residents are also its rough diamonds - weathering storms and supporting their local community in many ways that would leave prettier cities to shame in their wake.

Prettiest City: Perth, Western Australia.

Perth is pretty is so many different ways and places. The 640 hectares of the enormous Kings Park in the most prized real estate in the city provides the most scenic views of the Swan river and the most beautiful natural parkland (much of if open space since colonial times). The vast majority of the worlds most beautiful orchid flowers can be found represented in Kings Park's botanical gardens and throughout the city. The city lays claim to being the Art Deco capital of the world. Should you look above the shop awnings, every where you will see examples of beautiful Art Deco facades and architecture (Hay and Murray street malls particularly). Elsewhere you will find mixes of the ancient and the new. Fremantle is a treasure trove of beautiful colonial buildings and rejuvenated woolstores and port buildings. From afar the Bankwest tower is a glass curtain reflecting the city surrounds. At street level it is the facade of an old worlde pub with the most beautiful restoration work both inside and out, all of which complete hides the modern structure towering behind into the stratosphere. Even on the wrong side of the railway tracks in Northbridge, you will find beautiful open spaces, Art Galleries, nightclubs and lazy manicured tree lined streets. It doesn't seem to matter where you go, Perth has both a modern and an historical beauty that in my eye is the prettiest in the country.

itcherson

For me the prettiest city would be either Sydney by day or night, or Melbourne by night. The ugliest I'm honestly not sure they're all pretty good.

Mel

There is no ugly city but there are ugly suburbs in all cities.

Its more so the people that make somewhere ugly or pretty.

Each city has something going for them, from nature to architecture, all are outstanding and possess beauty.

If you were to travel to some poorer dirty countries you will then see ugly cities but not in Australia.

QLD RULES

Brisbane is pretty and Melbourne is ulgy.

77777777

What a divisive question! I've yet to see an ugly city anywhere.

lladnylnavillus

Adelaide is pretty, and no I don't come from there.

max.kiwi

define pretty and ugly

brisbane is both sydney is both melbourne is both perth is both adelaide is both cairns is both

amazeme

Prettiest: Perth, it's one of the cleanest cities in Australias and I often hear alot of people say how beautiful it is when they come from Melbs, Syd and ect :)

jade=)

ugliest - sydney, when i was there I didnt get through a day without seeing someone who'd just gotten mugged or a person lying on the ground with cops and ambos surrounging them cos they've overdose...it's just a very negative atmosphere

Kyle

IMO,

Prettiest: Sydney, Gold Coast, Brisbane and Perth

Ugliest: Melbourne (Melbourne is Sydney-wannabe) and some cities in Tasmania (Tasmania is quite different than the Australian mainland, even their culture and people).

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