What are the upsides and downsides of living in Melbourne?

Question

I´m a 31 year old hetero male and I intend to move to Melbourne in a couple of years. My interests in the city are: cost of living, crime rate, and cultural/night life.

Answer 1

G'day,

Melbourne.... wellll... where should I start?
1. First of all... it is true that some people do not like the weather in Melbourne. However, if you read the first article from The Age newspaper, you will find out that the weather is still more preferable than the other cities. Sure you can have 42C day like yesterday, but almost immediately you'll get a much cooler weather pretty soon afterwards. It is very rarely that you got 2 or 3 consecutive days of hot weathers (unlike Sydney, Brisbane or Perth).
2. Melbourne is a city of diversity. If you are a newcomer, and you do not look 'Anglo-Saxon', you do not feel like an 'alien', since you can find almost every race in the world walking in the city. They are both immigrants and overseas students.
3. THE FOOD!! Chinese, Italian, Japanese, Thai, All-you-can-eat, African, Lebanese, Mexican, Sea Food... anything else? All available and lots of them in a very-very-very affordable price
4. Pretty good public transport system. With one ticket, you can switch from train, tram and bus. They do not always come on-time, but still reliable and improving.
5. SHOPPING!!! Branded clothing sold very cheap. There are even shopping tour, where the participants are taken to retails outlets just for shopping. Big temptations for ladies.
6. Crime rates... just read the second article on the bottom.
7. Cost of Living... I'll say it's second most expensive city after Sydney. Altho I have to say that some cities in Queensland can be more expensive to live.
8. Night Life... hmmmm... I'll say the centre of nite activities will be Crown Casino and Docklands. Altho there are still plenty of cafe's and clubs scattered around the suburbs as well.
9. Tourist attraction. This is the area that I think Sydney is better than Melbourne, since it has most of it's attraction within its suburbs. Most Melbourne attraction are pretty much out of Melbourne, such as the gold mines in the cities of Bendigo and Ballarat, The Great Ocean Road, Lakes Entrance, Grampians, skiing in Mt. Buller etc.

Running out of ideas, but I hope that I can at least give you some more 'upsides' than the 'downsides' that have been provided by the answerer before me.

Good luck :)

Answer 2

I would have to agree with some of the other comments, the changing weather in Melbourne is sometimes hard to deal with. Even in summer we can have 19C and the next day it is 41C followed by 20C. It gets hard for the body to adjust to. I think the cost of living in Melbourne is less than somewhere like Sydney, but of course it depends on your lifestyle and what you are used to. The crime rate is much the same as many of the other states, but I dont go out much so couldnt comment on the night life.

Answer 3

Changeable weather is one of the major demerits to live in Melbourne. Lot of people are leaving Melbourne to Queensland every week due to this changeable weather. I recommend to talk with Queenslander who moved from Melbourne. It depends, but most of them have extreme negative feeling against Melbourne.

Answer 4

The ever-changing weather is the biggest problem with living in Melbourne.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

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Answer 7

Its very expensive, hot in summer, cold in winter and has great night life

Answer 8

Theres an UPSIDE too?