Re: sydney or melbourne ?
Originally Posted by saveme
(Post 9682617)
I would be more inclined to say that Melbourne is like Sydney without a beach.
Then again, if you live out in the 'burbs, you won't have much time to go to the beach. |
Re: sydney or melbourne ?
Melbourne's beaches are fine for walking along etc, swimming, you name it.
And stacks of people derive all sorts of pleasure from using them, and living next to them. |
Re: sydney or melbourne ?
Plenty of surf beaches on the Mornington Peninsula as well.
There's nothing wrong with Melbourne's bay beaches. They are much safer and gentler than Sydney's beaches and there is a much more relaxed and cultured focus around them whereas Sydney's beaches are very touristy, all about surf culture and not everyone is into that. |
Re: sydney or melbourne ?
Originally Posted by ProudVIC
(Post 9685501)
Plenty of surf beaches on the Mornington Peninsula as well.
There's nothing wrong with Melbourne's bay beaches. They are much safer and gentler than Sydney's beaches and there is a much more relaxed and cultured focus around them whereas Sydney's beaches are very touristy, all about surf culture and not everyone is into that. They can be 'touristy' of course but there's a very good reason for that, just as there's an equally good reason that other beaches are not 'touristy.' You can usually find a bit of 'culture' around them too, even at Bondi Beach. MY GOD,they even stage PLAYS in the pavillion sometimes, and of course the history of surf lifesaving goes back over a hundred years now. |
Re: sydney or melbourne ?
Originally Posted by markbhx
(Post 9685045)
The thought of living in the burbs.... shivers down my spine, might as well live in the outback
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Re: sydney or melbourne ?
Originally Posted by Buzzy--Bee
(Post 9683030)
What a lot of bullshit.
Melbourne has loads of beaches, I live in the suburbs and walk the dog on the beach most evenings. Have a look at this thread for some photos of these beaches that "saveme" says don't exist - http://britishexpats.com/forum/showthread.php?t=527425 BB |
Re: sydney or melbourne ?
Originally Posted by saveme
(Post 9687198)
I was a bit inaccurate, I must admit. I should have said, 'imagine a city without world-famous surf beaches,(most excluded to dogs too with good reason), a world-famous bridge, a world-famous opera house, and a world-famous harbour, what have you got left?
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Re: sydney or melbourne ?
Originally Posted by markbhx
(Post 9687200)
Melbourne has the world famous.........??.........??........?? oh yes the culture and back alleys....... known all over the world them ;) A lot of people I know knew of Melbourne and saw that as the place to be when I was gunning for Sydney! |
Re: sydney or melbourne ?
Originally Posted by saveme
(Post 9687198)
I was a bit inaccurate, I must admit. I should have said, 'imagine a city without world-famous surf beaches,(most excluded to dogs too with good reason), a world-famous bridge, a world-famous opera house, and a world-famous harbour, what have you got left?
...and I am not here to take tourist photos.... BB |
Re: sydney or melbourne ?
Originally Posted by markbhx
(Post 9687200)
Melbourne has the world famous.........??.........??........?? oh yes the culture and back alleys....... known all over the world them ;) |
Re: sydney or melbourne ?
Originally Posted by saveme
(Post 9687303)
They HAVE started to use the back alleys here for something other than dumping syringes. I keep looking up the narrow lanes off Crown St and seeing lines of people, and wonder what they are doing? |
Re: sydney or melbourne ?
Where is that pro-Melbourne joker when you need him for a well balanced argument??
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Re: sydney or melbourne ?
Keep yer flanno On.
West of Oxford St. When you live in Bondi it is hard to leave.
Originally Posted by saveme
(Post 9687195)
Unfortunately, it's all relative. I thought I was a pretty cool dude living in Surry Hills but it turns out that people in Bondi think I'm a 'Westie!'
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Re: sydney or melbourne ?
Originally Posted by markbhx
(Post 9687343)
Why the hell would you want to drink in an alley, I can do that on my own with six pack from the bottlo. Give me a pub on the harbour any day Mind you, Melbourne likes to boast that it has the best coffee in the world but no sane person would want to go more than a mile for a good cup of coffee, let alone 12,000! |
Re: sydney or melbourne ?
Originally Posted by saveme
(Post 9687729)
Well, you are right of course. It IS rather hard to believe that an 'alley' is world famous isn't it? Mind you, Melbourne likes to boast that it has the best coffee in the world but no sane person would want to go more than a mile for a good cup of coffee, let alone 12,000! BB |
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