What is your least favourite city in Australia?

[sr81]

Perhaps the BBC got a better look at the place - with the seaplane rides and the Macquarie lighthouse - than most of us. Still, Sydney, at least around the harbour and the beaches, is a treasure.

That entire show was a bit of a joke. Sydney is a really nice place if you can afford to live in the Eastern Suburbs, have a nice house near the water or up on the North Shore. The blokes working on the bridge had a great job but I bet they don't live near work.

Most people can't - they live (as my Mum did) out west. Liverpool, Penrith, etc. For those people there is no nice harbour, just the tedium of a commute and then working in a city that you can't afford.

Melbourne is, unfortunatly, heading down the same path with these awful McMansion suburbs in the flat lands on the way to Geelong. No public transport and everyone drives into the city. The good bit about Melbourne is that you can still live affordably in a nice area not to far from town and each little area has a feel of its own. You just need to chose to not have a 4 bedroom room house with a 3 car garage.

Back on topic: I vote for Newcastle or Rocky. Just so little going on and haute cusine is a parma and pot.

 

[azza_1992]

I vote Rockhampton. In fact, I think the only reason Mackay isn't mentioned here is because it seems like paradise relative to Rocky.

 

[Flashback]

Mine would have to be Derby. It really is a hole!

 

[11sjw]

Mine would have to be Derby. It really is a hole!

Is it a city? It definitely is a hole.

 

[k_sheep]

Not a hole so much as a mud plain.

 

[Flashback]

Is it a city? It definitely is a hole.

Not a hole so much as a mud plain.

Either way, there's certainly not much to it! I've been lucky that on my last few business trips there I've spent no more than 2.5 hours at once in the place.

I must say though, the beers on tap at the King Sound "Resort" (take this word very lightly ) are probably the coldest I've ever had, so a somewhat redeeming feature for the one time that I did have to overnight there.

 

[k_sheep]

And the barramundi. Gooooood barra.

 

[Schillaci]

Are we talking Metro or purely CBD?

Melbourne has a wonderful vibrant CBD along with some of the most dreary, horrible suburbs I've ever visited.

 

[straitman]

Are we talking Metro or purely CBD?

What ever you like :!:

 

[dajop]

Are we talking Metro or purely CBD?

Melbourne has a wonderful vibrant CBD along with some of the most dreary, horrible suburbs I've ever visited.

One could probably make that comment about Sydney, Brisbane, and in fact just about any city in the world, New York, Paris, London etc ..... I used to joke that a city I often visit in the midwest of the US (which I don't rate in glowing terms) is just like Melbourne ... without the bay and without the collection of suburbs within a 10km radius of the GPO.. .

 

[Keith009]

One could probably make that comment about Sydney, Brisbane, and in fact just about any city in the world, New York, Paris, London etc ..... I used to joke that a city I often visit in the midwest of the US (which I don't rate in glowing terms) is just like Melbourne ... without the bay and without the collection of suburbs within a 10km radius of the GPO.. .

+1
We had a company "bonding activity" which took us out to an indoor skydiving facility in Union City, outside San Francisco. Union City looked just like an outer suburb in Melbourne (Narre Warren), LA (Maywood) or London (Morden) or even Singapore (Woodlands) with the identikit strip malls with their generic stores, fast food chains, ugly McMansions, and inhabitants donning fake Prada. Though maybe more public estates than McMansions in the case of Morden and Woodlands. Other than that, they're virtually indistinguishable.

Gotta say though, from very brief initial impressions, I thought Perth suburbs looked nicer than suburbs of Melbourne or Sydney. Sparkling clean.

PS - Why do they call them McMansions btw? I understand Mc to refer to a chain eatery of particular infamy, thus implying cheap build and poor quality. But mansions?? They aren't even that big or grand... maybe huge cf my tiny inner city unit but certainly not what I'd consider 'mansion.'

 

[stuartfaz]

Sydney by the length of the pitch.

 

[nlagalle]

Gotta say though, from very brief initial impressions, I thought Perth suburbs looked nicer than suburbs of Melbourne or Sydney. Sparkling clean.

PS - Why do they call them McMansions btw? I understand Mc to refer to a chain eatery of particular infamy, thus implying cheap build and poor quality. But mansions?? They aren't even that big or grand... maybe huge cf my tiny inner city unit but certainly not what I'd consider 'mansion.'

Perth is great but has some average suburbs too...

the McMansion comes from Mcdonalds chain food all the same, and mansion, being ovesized etc.. certainly not what you would consider a mansion!!

Nick

 

[ric_melb]

Why Mc Mansions, not sure, but in common use, and has a derogatory connotation.
I would think the Mc part comes from them being mass produced, and essentially all the same. The Mansions part is a sarcastic allusion to the fact that they are all larger than they need to be, but not Mansions in the historical sense.
They are wannabe Mansions.