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Batako

G'day

Melbourne!!! Wellll... where should I start?
1. First of all... some people do not like the weather in Melbourne (you can have 4 seasons in one day). However, if you read the first article from The Age newspaper, you will find out that the weather is still more preferable than the other cities. Sure you can have 42C day on summer, but almost immediately you'll get a much cooler weather pretty soon afterwards. It is very rarely that you got 2 or 3 consecutive days of hot weathers (unlike Sydney, Brisbane or Perth).
2. Melbourne is a city of diversity. If you are a newcomer, and you do not look 'Anglo-Saxon', you do not feel like an 'alien', since you can find almost every race in the world walking in the city. They are both immigrants and overseas students.
3. THE FOOD!! Chinese, Italian, Japanese, Thai, All-you-can-eat, African, Lebanese, Mexican, Sea Food... anything else? All available and lots of them in a very-very-very affordable price
4. Pretty good public transport system. With one ticket, you can switch from train, tram and bus. They do not always come on-time, but still reliable and improving (www.metlinkmelbourne.com.au).
5. SHOPPING!!! Original branded clothing sold very cheap. There are even shopping tour, where the participants are taken to retails outlets just for shopping. Big temptations for ladies.
6. Crime rates... just read the second article on the bottom.
7. Cost of Living... I'll say it's second most expensive city after Sydney. Altho I have to say that some cities in Queensland can be more expensive to live.
8. Night Life... hmmmm... I'll say the centre of nite activities will be Crown Casino and Docklands. Altho there are still plenty of cafe's and clubs scattered around the suburbs as well.
9. Tourist attraction. This is the area that I think Sydney is better than Melbourne, since it has most of it's attraction within its suburbs. Most Melbourne attraction are pretty much out of Melbourne, such as the gold mines in the cities of Bendigo and Ballarat, The Great Ocean Road, Lakes Entrance, Grampians, skiing in Mt. Buller etc.

Running out of ideas, but I hope that I can at least give you some more informations that have been provided by the answerers before me.

As the earlier answerers said, try and have a holiday for abt 1-2weeks, and see how you like it. At least, it is not overseas migration.

Good luck and welcome to Melbourne. I've been living in Melbourne for 16 years, visited some other capital cities in Australia and still giving Melbourne 10/10 for the best city.

Suzieq

You havent said exactly what you are sick of, but I have lived in Sydney and now live in Melbourne, and would have to say that melbs syites all over Sydney.

Coffee culture, pubs, clubs, the people and shopping. Really I could go on and on.

COme down for a couple of weeks holiday and see how you like it. i can assure you, you wont be disapointed

iansand9876

You may as well go. You can always return to Sydney if it doesn't work out.

Currawong

As you know Melbourne has quite a different culture to Sydney.

This is my advice.
Go and live in Melbourne for a while and see how it feels and get it out of your system . You can always move back to Sydney if it doesn't work out for you.

If you don't do it, you will always wonder "should I or shouldn't I have gone.

bubblygirl

you should totally go for it!! experience life or you may have regrets when you get older.

TonyB

Try it. If you make the wrong decision then 'home' is only an hour away.

BTW, you may not like Melb in winter, wait until Spring to come down.

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