What is your least favourite city in Australia?

[straitman]

In line with the thread 'What is your least favourite city in the world I thought I would add this thread. It seems that a few people have their least favourite city in Oz so let's expand this to be an Oz only thread.

In my case I have to say 'Sydney' as it is just a great big unplanned schemozzle that seems to flop from one disaster to another. (or maybe that is NSW as a whole) :shock:

 

[Hvr]

I generally dislike SYD and would love to leave CBR.

 

[straitman]

On the other hand I like Canberra.

 

[JohnK]

As I mentioned in the other thread there is good and bad in every city.

I try to avoid the bad areas (and bad people) where possible....

 

[samh004]

Speaking of the cities I’ve visited of course, Sydney isn’t that great to me.

 

[Saab34]

Darwin and Adelaide. Enough said.

 

[dajop]

If we're talking purely the city, and not the outlying beach areas or nearby reef, then have to be Cairns (or perhaps Townsville?)

 

[NYCguy]

Speaking of the cities I’ve visited of course, Sydney isn’t that great to me.

Sydney is wonderful if you don't go south of the airport, west of Leichhardt, or north of Balmoral. And let's face it, is there any need to?

My least favorite place in Australia is the Gold Coast, in particular, Surfers Paradise. We have friends there who incessantly harangue us about what a fantastic lifestyle it is, how great the weather is, blah blah blah. Yeah, I'd sure love to give up my view over the Jardin des Tuileries to the Eiffel tower and live in a neoclassical McMansion on Chevron Island.

 

[david870mdg]

BHQ / KGI

For actual cities to visit it would have to be CNS - a reef and nothing else.

 

[samh004]

My least favorite place in Australia is the Gold Coast, in particular, Surfers Paradise. We have friends there who incessantly harangue us about what a fantastic lifestyle it is, how great the weather is, blah blah blah. Yeah, I'd sure love to give up my view over the Jardin des Tuileries to the Eiffel tower and live in a neoclassical McMansion on Chevron Island.

Oh, I forgot about the Gold Coast as it’s where I live. Living away from the drag of the strip though, I don’t often visit it. So yeah, it is pretty tacky and about as bad as Sydney to me.

 

[dajop]

BHQ / KGI

It's all relative I guess, as far as mining towns go these are probably two of the best!

 

[drron]

Have to be Rockhampton.Worked there for 9 weeks.Best activity was watching the military vehicles on their way to and from Shoalwater Bay.:shock:
Back in 1964 I first visited,though stayed at Yeppoon.My take on how Yeppoon was named was as Captain Cook sailed by a crewman opinioned that it would make a good resort area one day.Captain Cook replied-yer poon.Have to know the 60's vernacular.

 

[codash1099]

In line with the thread 'What is your least favourite city in the world I thought I would add this thread. It seems that a few people have their least favourite city in Oz so let's expand this to be an Oz only thread.

In my case I have to say 'Sydney' as it is just a great big unplanned schnozzle that seems to flop from one disaster to another. (or maybe that is NSW as a whole) :shock:

Hey Bill,

A "schnozzle" is a nose (as in Jimmy "Schnozzle" Durante). If you mean a "schemozzle" then I agree with you.

 

[markis10]

My least favorite city is Wollongong, not sure why, the beaches dont save it.

 

[straitman]

Hey Bill,

A "schnozzle" is a nose (as in Jimmy "Schnozzle" Durante). If you mean a "schemozzle" then I agree with you.

Oops. Shows up my proof reading :!: :evil:
Post #1 amended. :mrgreen:

 

[Justinf]

Adelaide. Nothing really wrong with it, just that I am bored after half a day there. No redeeming features or qualities at all. Get out of Adelaide and into the hills or the wineries and that's different.
Darwin is not particularly nice either.
Agree with those who have said Cairns. The city itself is quite ugly and boring.
Geelong is a crudhole too.

 

[medhead]

well port pirie for me, as mentioned. Friendly people but nothing there of note, besides lead poisoning. Also extremely boring drive to get there along that coast road, which is just about the most boring road in South Oz. Mt Isa could equally be there, but i find some redeem features such as the naturally beauty of the region.
I don't like Rocky/Yeppoon (I count these together) because while I have met some great people from there, I have also met an incredibly horrible/vindictive person from there as well.

Having grown up in Cairns, I can understand why I/we hated the tourists who thought it was nothing more than a reef. Similarly with adelaide, to say there is nothing on suggests perhaps a lack of research. Adelaide has it's problems but lack of things to do isn't one of them, IMO.

 

[harvyk]

Sydney \ Adelaide...

Sydney because going there is nothing special any more (living in Canberra, it's just so easy to get to).

Adelaide because every time I have visited there has typically been just after I have returned from somewhere much more interesting, so really it never stood a chance.

 

[JetLagged]

Such a question - or, more precisely, the replies - begs the question: by what standards or requirements do we employ to make such an assessment? After all, what drives one person to distraction or loeathing about a place can be very different qualities from those which attract another person to the very same spot.

For me, Melbourne hits many spots for things to avoid - and that said, have been there many times, and even have family there. After visiting the place for decades, I see it as one huge flat, monotonous plain of bare existence - wishing it had a harbour, way too cold in winter, and dusty in summer. Sorry guys - Sydney might be unplanned, but it has a vibrancy (as well as a harbour)!

 

[Postcode]

Bundaberg. Because of work I was sentenced to three years there. It must hold the record of inhabitants with at least 6 fingers and/or toes in the world. And the sad thing is that they seem to be proud of it. Longest three years of my life.

Sydney. After the harbour there's nothing.

Gold Coast. I lived there as a kid in the middle of Surfers Paradise. It was horrible then and has degenerated even more.