coincidently I was driving into the city before and for some strange reason I started to count the sky scrapers, only got to about 11....

20 mins actually Simone from where I live (Northern Subs) so there

And I go all the time

Love Jill

It's 5 mins for me, and I go about once a month these days. Usually go to Carousel shopping centre in Cannington or Belmont Forum on the way home from work. And for Saturday shopping Innaloo or Dogswamp(both great names, huh?! )

It would be 45 mins from Armadale and Kalamunda.
And more than that from Butler I think?

OOh Simone, not checked out all of those you mentioned, my fav so far is Garden City, can't believe there are ones I have not been to, I'm slipping !!!!!

Jill

I think Garden City will still be your favourite, it's definetly the nicest looking one!

Carousel is alright too, in Cannington on the Albany Highway(bit far for you, but, why not, petrols cheap(well, hopefully it will be again tomorrow!!)). It's the biggest one in Perth apparently.

Belmont Forum is quite small, I get groceries there sometimes.

I know its very sad only having 11 skyscrapers considering the Aussies are supposed to love them like the Yanks.

Ah, but it's all the perspective!

I thought there was only 5 or so (and only 3 or so big ones), so 11 sounds like a lot!!
And I think it's a lot, cos NL doesn't have any(except maybe a few in Rotterdam?)

Perth CBD is small. Not necessarily a problem for those that live here as most businesses are duplicated in the suburbs where parking is free. A city should have some flagships and some special atmoshphere to draw you to it. Perth fails.

Tourists must feel let down by it. Go down to the river and all you have is car parks and a road.

Perth fails for you.

Others like the walk through the park near the court thingy, and have a drink in the pub near where the ferries go to South Perth/Zoo.
Others like biking around the Swan, it's got a good bike path going round, been there for at least 15 years.
Others like King's Park, which you can get to on a free CAT bus.

And then there's always London Court...!

Anyway, I don't find cities at all special, and I always see them as pretty much all the same.
What would be much better about Brisbane, Adelaide, Sydney, Melbourne?
The Opera House? It's an ugly building(my opinion), and most people take a photo of it, and don't even take a tour inside(me included).

I rather like Perth.. it's nice and small, and easy to wander around the city... beautiful location. Thought when we were there it would be nice to work in the city and wander down to the riverside for lunch.. would please me no end!

it's pretty tranquil really for a city CBD...

Almost everyone would appreciate Kings Park, Simone. The free transport within the city on the bus is very welcome. A city needs more life and atmosphere than what Perth has to offer. Where are the pubs, buskers, interesting buildings?
It is small and it fails to make use of it's best asset - The Swan.

Zebra Zebra Zebra, has your patriotic flag slipped!!!!!!?????

You are the shoulder to lean on for all these in-coming Brits. Take a deep breath, a walk around the city centre and re write your Perth City reply...Please

I do have to agree though, it's small. Small compared to Adelaide,Melbourne and Sydney.

The park is beautiful though and just the right size

There's a few pubs, not in the actual shopping centre bit though, but a bit in the direction of West Perth. One is the Belgian Beer Cafe, and there's a few more.
And then there's Northbridge with the Brass Monkey etc.
And with the redevelopment that will be opened up more.

There's always buskers on the bit between Myer centre and Carillon City mall, and I always see violin players and guitar players too.

There's a few nice buildings/churches on St Georges tce in between the skyscrapers.
Then there's Barrack st arch thingy, Perth Mint, and some other things on the east side.
Then there's the WA Art Museaum, part of it is housed in the old Police Court, and you can see the old court room.

But no, there's not many old buildings in Perth city. Fremantle is better for that, with the Prison, round house, station, Customs house etc.

And I agree, they could make much better use of the foreshore, especially with that silly new convention centre!!!

True Perth CBD is small, but I like the swan river foreshore - one of the first things I was impressed with on arriving here was all the boats and guys parascending on the water... right on the doorstep of the CBD. When we flew to Rottsnest and back over to Perth (and around) it looked so tidy and it's so clean and well laid out compared to other cities I've been too.

when I said sky scrapers I didn't mean it in the sense of yankie sky scrapers, the best view of them is from the south beside the Narrows Bridge, there are a few bunched together...

On the CBD front there is also a bit of CBD thing going on in West Perth, or is that classed as being part of the main CBD??