I have always wanted to know other than your job. Why do live in Sydney, Melbourne or Brisbane? I visited all on holidays I Been to the city like Tokyo and NewYork most of EU. I lived in Gold coast and Brisbane 6 month each in 2002. i personal found traveling hours each way for work overpriced house and overpriced Rent. What is some upside of living them? Do like were you live? what your travel to work like to work? what do you do for a job? I live in Townsville North Queensland I know the job market in Townsville is shot but. I personal work 4 days a week and own my own home. it a 20min city. 12km trip to work by car. Did you ever think about leaving for a regional city?
Mega City - Why Do You Live in Sydney or Melbourne?
nikey2k27 on 01/10/2018 - 06:26
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Depends on the quality of women (in a non sexually objectifying and gender neutral way).
Access to health care - large hospitals, extended hours medical centre and pharmacies.
After growing up in a country town I couldn't handle the homophobia, racism and basic small mindedness of the place. I couldn't go back to that
The travel between home and work and vice versa behind the wheel is me time. It gives me time to think about what I'll do today and reflect on what I've done.
Anyone else do this?
and appreciate the farts you produce
Yes, and listen to my favourite radio station. Bliss.
Melb - Born and raised & to lazy to move anywhere else, although it's becoming more and more desirable the more congested it is getting
Grew up in Cairns, moved to Melb for 8 years, then work offered me a "posting" with a bunch of extra perks to go remote (Cairns haha). Have just taken it. I see great positives in Melbourne and Cairns.
Melb: Cold doesnt bother me, so I'm over most complaints about Melbourne. I like the sport, cafes, concerts and public transport. I also like how close it is to a whole bunch of different natural landscapes.
Cairns: Love the winter weather, the beaches, freshwater creeks, fishing but it's my family and mates here that is the biggest perk.
Being given extra perks to go home just be a jackpot!
There's a Kinokuniya and Sydney Opera House here 😂 (which is why I don't live in Melbourne)
OP has travelled, lived elsewhere, and now found their happy place.
I have travelled, lived elsewhere, and found my happy place.IMO, if you haven't travelled, lived elsewhere, you might not know if you are in your ideal happy place.
I live alone and work in the Melbourne CBD in a high rise apartment.
I generally like the interaction with other people and having "life" around all the time. There are time where I enjoy "me" time. So living in a highrise, if I wanted peace and quiet, I just stay upstairs. If I wanted some noise and action, I go downstairs.
I've thought about living in the suburbs (or even further out in the regional areas) and I can't see myself enjoying the loneliness and the need to drive out to see people.
It's really personal preference and you're own personality. You do what you feel is comfortable.
I live and work in the Melbourne outer sth eastern burbs. It just so happens my job is in the same suburb I live in. My husband also works in the same suburb. We are a long way from the city, but there is still life to be had out here. Yes there is horrible traffic congestion but it doesn't affect us much as we don't have a daily commute - I drive 7 mins to work. Living and working out here means that we have been able to purchase and pay off our large modern home, and to build an investment portfolio which we probably would not have been able to do if we were living in the inner city or inner suburbs - at least, not on our very average incomes.
I have lived in the inner suburbs, in both rented and owned accommodation. The rented houses were run down hovels. The owned property is now worth ten times more than what I originally paid for it - but it still needs significant structural and maintenance work. Living in the inner burbs gave me access to pubs and shows and events if I wanted - but mainly I stayed at home. I've lived in a Docklands highrise apartment - everything at my fingertips, again if I wanted. I moved to the outer burbs because I met someone - I'd never been as far as Dandenong even before. So to find myself out here initially seemed to be a bit of a culture shock - flat, concrete, cars. Until I realised that I rarely made use of those inner city/suburbs features that people say they can't live without anyway.
As for the future - I dream of a bush block, secluded and fenced, away from people. A big house (but in good repair). As long as it is connected to electricity, gas and the internet, it's all good. But urban sprawl might put paid to that. Or, I grew up in a seaside country town, and I'd go back there if work arose for the both of us (it won't!). Ultimately, in retirement, I might look again to a highrise tower in the city.
Grew up here (Melbourne) so family & friends.
I suppose if my family and friends were in a regional area, perhaps I'd stay there too.
Have traveled internationally quite a bit and enjoyed many cities, but I still enjoy living here.
If I couldn't get a job or career here, then I'd consider moving.
Born and bred in Melbourne. Although I’m very far from the city, there are still too many people here and traffic is a b*** if you need to travel during peak hour. I would love to move to Adelaide, but apparently not much work there and I wouldn’t want to be separated from my family.
Have lived in Melbourne for 85% of my life. All my family and my wifes family lives here too. We could move (and it's been rather tempting to do so) but that would mean at least 3 trips per year back here.
Because I was born here. I'd like to toss out as many immigrants and tourists as possible.
Was that too non-PC for this forum?
Just out of interest, is your family background indigenous to Australia, or did they originate elsewhere?
No, just another person with immigrant grandparents.
Doesn't mean I want others to be afforded the same opportunity my grandparents had at the risk of my quality of life. Traffic is a mess, no one speaks english anymore, rules aren't obeyed, schools are filled with kids who are abusive to teachers and no one respects what our country was founded on.
Happy to have more immigrants come when we need them. Right now, we need to fix our infrastructure and make Australians happy to live here. We're at a point where people are getting crushed at train station platforms (e.g. Parramatta and North Sydney) and 100 m long queues at bus stops. Sydney is one big construction site filled with incompetent governments and greedy developers.
Doesn't mean I want others to be afforded the same opportunity my grandparents had at the risk of my quality of life.
TBH I don't know whether I prefer honest or lying douchbags.
Kind of resonate this as an asian male. I had to learn english growing up to survive; however looking around now - there are so many pockets in sydney where vast amount of populace can't speak english. Surprisingly enough, many seems to be on PR or Citizen of Aus…
Location and proximity to services is very important.
I don't need a hospital right now but for the best chance of survival it's best to within 15 minutes of a hospital. To have to wait for an ambulance to arrive from the next town may mean a big difference.
I don't have children with me any more but to have a house within reasonable walking distance of a school attracts buyers to a property. If there is no school in the local area why would families buy my house.
Shopping is an essential need. The more supermarkets in an area the higher the likelihood of discount shops being nearby. If there is just an IGA or similar nearby then you can't shop around. You're stuck with paying high prices for groceries.
The bigger the population the higher chance of decent employment being available. I work in Information Technology. There is no demand for my skills in a small town.
Finally public transport. I do not drive. I use public transport for everything. It needs to regular and reliable.
That can only be met in highly populated areas. Therefore I live in Melbourne.
Work (IT) opportunities basically. Could easily have ended up in Melbourne and be almost as content (weather is the discriminant). When I get tired of the big smoke the thing I will miss the most is the variety of cuisines available. Will have to learn to make those dishes myself. Oh and the other thing I will miss about a big city is the ease of flying out to the rest of the world.
born and raised in melbourne, fly to sydney for work occasionally. sydney is a hole - expensive, crowded, shitty public transport, the CBD is rubbish
Sydney and Melbourne are far from "Mega Cities"
That's true, on the global scale our cities are nowhere.
Rank Megacity Country Continent Population 1 Tokyo Japan Asia 38,140,000 2 Shanghai China Asia 34,000,000 3 Jakarta Indonesia Asia 31,500,000 4 Delhi India Asia 27,200,000 5 Seoul Korea Asia 25,600,000 6 Guangzhou China Asia 25,000,000 7 Beijing China Asia 24,900,000 8 Manila Philippines Asia 24,100,000 9 Mumbai India Asia 23,900,000 10 New York City United States North America 23,876,155 Out of interest I looked up our stats:
https://blog.id.com.au/2018/population/population-trends/the…
Sydney: 4,741,874 Melbourne: 4,677,157
Melton had a 5.3% increase over 1 year. From a low base though. I had to look up where it is. Wonder what attracts people there.
Maybe OP means mega just as in mega-overpriced?
Or mega as in >= 1 million.
Not even if you combined them.
Yeah, when I was in Asian megacities I was thinking there are more people living here than all of Australia.
Although in terms of density one may not perceive the meganess because they are also geographically spread out. Seoul stretches all the way to Incheon and no doubt all those districts in between would have their own centres.
OP, you need to run your paragraph through grammarly- that barely makes sense. You're missing all relevant conjunctions.
I live rural, small farm, have a second job in a rural city.
Working at home, I am lucky if I see another person all day. It's peaceful, it's rewarding, it's beautiful, it's a lot of hard work. Makes for a great lifestyle. People are friendly, I can call my neighbors from 10km down road and they will happily assist with anything, and I do the same for them. Favors aren't earned, it's just considered courtesy to look out for each other.Drive to city work is 45 minutes, all highway, no congestion, 110kmh.
It's a small city and I still dislike the noise, the rudeness of people, the congestion (nothing like melbourne), the lack of privacy. I do get paid a lot more than I can turn over on the farm though. Earning potential in cities is definitely a plus.brisbane is a lot cheaper than sydney/melbourne , by multiple folds
My ethnicity would mean I stick out way too much in a regional area. No thanks. I want to be somewhere I won't get harassed.
Originally came to Melbourne from a regional Victorian area for work, and met my wife and now live here.
Will probably move away when elderly parents are gone and children have moved out of home.
I tolerate Melbourne, but really dislike Sydney.
Country boy at heart..
Grass is greener…
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