What cities are the best places to live in Australia?

Answer 1

G'day

Melbourne!!! Wellll... where should I start?
1. First of all... some people do not like the weather in Melbourne (you can have 4 seasons in one day). 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 last month, 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 (www.metlinkmelbourne.com.au).
5. SHOPPING!!! Original 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.

Living closer to the beach will be the suburbs of Altona, Port Melbourne, Williamstown, St. Kilda, Elwood and Brighton to mention some that are pretty close to CBD. You can cross reference with some real-estate websites to know the rental costs (www.realestate.com.au or www.domain.com.au).

Running out of ideas, but I hope that I can at least give you some more informations that have been provided by the answerers before me.

Good luck and welcome to Melbourne. I've been living in Melbourne for 16 years, visited some other capital cities in Australia and still giving Melbourne 10/10 for the best city.

Answer 2

I prefer country towns to cities...although I currently live in Perth Western Australia which is the capital city of WA. It's a nice smaller city with bushland close by so I still feel like I am in the country sometimes. I have only been out of WA once and when I did I went to Sydney and Brisbane. Queensland was gorgeous and northern NSW was just as nice. Sydney was a bit overwhelming for me (but I was only 14!) Personally I love all of Western Australia...especially Margaret River down south where there are abundant forests, wineries and world class surf at the best beaches around. I also lived in Exmouth Wa for the last 15 years and although it is a small town in the hottest part of WA, the Ningaloo Reef is right there and as it's the worlds largest fringe reef a LOT of people visit every year with more and more deciding to stay. We get whalesharks every winter and they draw a lot of tourists as well.

Answer 3

I live near Perth and have been to some of the other cities. Perth has nice beaches - but is expensive living at the moment (Real Estate). More relaxed lifestyle and not as stressy as the other major cities such as Melbourne and Sydney. Always good weather too.

Answer 4

We are about to head to WA to live. Will probably start off in Perth as it is lovely with its beach and river access and at the moment there seems to be lots of work opportunities.
I have lived in Melbourne for a few years and that was good as well although pretty busy at times. But again in Melbourne there are some lovely beaches and lots of places to eat out etc. It depends what you are in to.
I have lived in Gippsland for a few years, love the Gippsland Lakes, beaches and national parks.

Answer 5

Well the big cities(state capitals)are very cosmopolitan.Depends on what you are looking for.Many of the smaller cities offer a good lifestyle and more space.For example Geelong(victoria)is a very nice place and surrounded by mile after mile of beaches.However there are many other cities can say likewise

Answer 6

It depends, Sydney is the dearest, Melbourne is cosmo but still expensive, Perth is beautiful and reasonable but too far from the rest, Adelaide is cheap but boring, so I would say Brisbane, beautiful one day perfect the next.

Answer 7

Brisbane

Answer 8

i much prefer to live out of the big cities. i find places in the sunshine coast far better to live - like noosa, mooloolaba, caboolture, caloundra etc, or up north like townsville or cairns.

Answer 9

Melbourne

And someone should give that guy noname an atlas......

Answer 10

I love Darwin... (if you're into warm weather)