What is your least favourite city in Australia?

[medhead]

Whatever it's all good compared to 26-32 with afternoon thunderstorm year round, were variation comes in two forms: a morning thunderstorm and 25-31 or no rain at all and 26-34.

Umm, at least that is variation unlike cold overcast Melbourne. I live there from Jan to may one year and it was cold, wet and overcast the whole time. That's enough for me. :8

Ohh Brisbane gets cold for about 2 or 3 weeks in august. I usually had to dig out the long pants and jumper for those weeks.
Edit:
I never had A/C for the first 28 years of my life when living in Queensland (cairns, Brisbane and the coasts). Only got A/C when I moved to south oz. Where variation was 30+ in the day and -2 at night, with 40+ during summer day and night

 

[dajop]

You forget the 15 degree airconditioning....

Yes! A friend has a theory on that ... the main reason being so people can actually shop for, buy and wear winter fashions. I love it here how you hit Nov and suddenly the shops are full of winter fashion. WTF?

Umm, at least that is variation unlike cold overcast Melbourne. I live there from Jan to may one year and it was cold, wet and overcast the whole time.

Must have been pre-drought. Hasn't been like that for years ....

 

[haydensydney]

Personally, i'm not a fan of Melbourne and Cairns when looking at major cities. I can't put my finger on it but Melbourne and I are polar opposites... I guess your either a SYD or MEL person and I am definitely a SYD boi. Cairns is just broing unless your going out to the reef.

Smaller cities on my DNG list include Maryborough, Ipswich and Toowoomba.

 

[straitman]

Sorry guys - Sydney might be unplanned, but it has a vibrancy (as well as a harbour)!

... and more wet days PA than Melbourne :!:

 

[ozbeachbabe]

Darwin and Adelaide. Enough said.

What's wrong with Darwin? I choose to live here & have done so for 10 years - noone held a gun to my head.

Anyway, whatever floats your boat. Maybe balmy 30degree winter days aren't your thing.

Cheers

Oz

 

[farmer]

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.

Obivously no one on this thread actually lives in Sydney. Does the big city and all its activity, variety and traffic scare everyone. Its the only world class city with attitude to boot.

You guys had not better visit New York. You would probably be too scared!!! to leave JFK.

Farmer.

 

[nlagalle]

hmmm.. this is a tough one.

I'd have to say Sydney and Adelaide. I find on average the the hotels have the worst breakfast out of any state, and not to mention the coffee!!

I find Adelaide generally boring and Sydney is overcrowded. Having said that i still like visiting them both!

But i have been to some pretty backwater towns outside the metros too..

 

[dajop]

Does the big city and all its activity, variety and traffic scare everyone.

I think the main thing people are scared of is boredom

The thing is about Sydney is that is has a wonderful harbour and pretty good beaches and (some) nicely forested suburbs, which all means that the idiots who run the place can be incompetent and lazy and don't need to do anything because of these blessed natural features and legacy left by the designers and builders the bridge and opera house. Apart from these structures, the built environment is probably a woeful aggregation of neglect and lost opportunity, and I am sure many locals (well the ones I know) agree on this factor.

I lived there for four years, loved the weekends, but prefer my weekdays (and Fri night!) in Melbourne. So be nice to commute between the two

 

[straitman]

Obivously no one on this thread actually lives in Sydney. Does the big city and all its activity, variety and traffic scare everyone. Its the only world class city with attitude to boot.

You guys had not better visit New York. You would probably be too scared!!! to leave JFK.

Farmer.

Farmer,

Welcome to AFF and thanks for the wind-up :!:

I'll happily go to NYC again without issue. I still don't like Sydney though.

 

[browski]

Melbourne is to Sydney as NYC is to LA.

However, staying on topic; The winner is Adelaide, daylight second, Thuringowa/Logan tied for third.

 

[kimandgaz]

Notice no-one has mentioned Mackay :shock::shock::shock:

 

[tonybne]

Well mine in order are -

ADL- been there 7/8 times other than Glenelg and the hils - boring
OLL - Enough said by others- dislike the Gold Coast
ROK - Have to visit for work many times a year - good steaks-nothing else
TSV - Magnetic Island-wonderfull-city poor
CNS - Again as per others have said-reef good- city-Yuck!

Cheers, TonyBNE

 

[NYCguy]

Melbourne is to Sydney as NYC is to LA.

Yeah, look, I just don't see that at all! I think that Sydney and San Francisco have a lot more in common. Both have pretty waterside locations, both have famous bridges, both have a great restaurant/bar scene, both are reasonably important finance centres, and both are socially liberal.

Comparing Melbourne to New York is simply laughable. It's more like Atlanta. Oh, no, wait... That's Brisbane.

Seriously, though... Melbourne and Paris have a lot in common.

 

[Saab34]

NYC is unique in itself, cant really compare it to any city.

 

[NYCguy]

NYC is unique in itself, cant really compare it to any city.

It's true, yes.

 

[browski]

I wasn't comparing MEL to NYC. I was comparing how different SYD was to MEL; like this:
Boy is to Man, like Girl is to Woman.
On your logic, Boy = Girl, which was not the meaning I was trying to convey.

I would suggest though that Chandigarh is more similar to MEL than is Paris.

 

[Brisbane Flyer]

Cairns, armpit of Oz.

 

[david870mdg]

Whoops!!
:evil:
How could I forget
ALICE SPRINGS!!!!!

Bloody good thing this dump is in the middle of the country and no one in their right mind would ever want to make an effort to actually go (let alone stay) there.

 

[NYCguy]

I would suggest though that Chandigarh is more similar to MEL than is Paris.

I found Chandigarh eerily reminiscent of Canberra, but I wasn't there for long.

 

[medhead]

Must have been pre-drought. Hasn't been like that for years ....

Yep definitely pre-drought

What's wrong with Darwin? I choose to live here & have done so for 10 years - noone held a gun to my head.

Anyway, whatever floats your boat. Maybe balmy 30degree winter days aren't your thing.

Cheers

Oz

I love Darwin and Cairns and, well, I like Adelaide. (It's not Cairns or Brisbane or queensland for that matter but I don't hold that against Adelaide). Anyway, I wouldn't worry about negative comments about places. A lot of those comments are I don't like this place because it's boring. Frankly, I think that tells me a lot more about the person making the comment than it does about the city. At the very least it tells me that someone hasn't done any research.