Where is the best place to live in Australia?

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mini

Australia is a safe country and culturally diverse - we're all migrants to the country. You can experience cultures and food from Italian, Greek, Asian to Middle Eastern.

Based on your criteria the answer is Melbourne because:
- We have a combination of brand new swanky buildings and sky crapers as well as the old European buildings in the city.

- The city's beautiful and full of little alleyways with hidden restaurants, bars and pubs.

- Melbourne has lots of artsy suburbs in fitzroy and brunswick street - we have lots of independent artists and bands

- Melbourne is famoous for the Italian and Greek food but also has a nice chinatown.

- The only downturn about melbourne is the weather (you can get 4 seasons in one day) and winter can be a bit chilly compare to other European cities (average winter temperature of 10-14C.

The other city which is popular with expats is Sydney:
- Sydney has good weather all year round
- Full of skycrappers and has beautiful harbour and water living
- It hasn't got that cute little alleys like Melbourne, has got more 'big city' feeling and can be impersonal
- Beaches are beautiful as its within close proximity to the city

If I have to compare the 'city feeling' with other cities in the world:
Melbourne has similar feeling as vancouver or san fransisco
while
Sydney is more like chicago/London.

Hope this helps :-)

dragonfly-dazed

I vote for Melbourne.

Good Luck.

strawberry princess

well in new south wales theirs Sydney(beautiful)
in queensland theirs Brisbane which is also amazing
sydney has a bit colder weather but brisbane has the cool beaches with hott surfers lol

Dragsta

the south

liz down under

Sounds like Melbourne. It is known as the arts capital, the fashion capital, the sporting capital and it is in Victoria - the garden state. It is a bit more European than Australia's big cities. The weather is not as warm and so it is not so much of a beachy lifestyle as some other places. It is always voted one of the best cities in the world to live. I live here and I think it is great.

Tish

On those criteria Melbourne is the obvious choice, but if you like the feel of a smaller city and want a wonderful harbour view Hobart would also be a good choice (and it's only a short flight to Melbourne anyway).

Billybean

Fremantle, WA of course!

GordonGekko

Brisbane, QLD.

Blue Panther

melbourne

steven

Melbourne and Sydney are the only real multicultural cities of Australia. Sydney has the beautiful harbour, Melbourne has the nicest CBD. Personally i think Melbourne has the nicer buildings and it is regarded as the culture capital of Australia. Both cities are safe but i think Melbourne has the edge.

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