On this post it’s time to defend your home turf! We’re all clearly big fans of Sydney, but exactly what is it that creates a city that is so awesome?
This challenge is also being listed on our sister sites, Melbournism and Brisbanism, so defend your home town!
Just why is Sydney so much better than Sydney or Brisbane?
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Inhabitants of those other cities feel the need to prove that they are better. We just know we’re the best.
Sydney doesn’t have a chip on it’s shoulder like Melbourne. Sydney doesn’t think twice about which city is better, we just get on with life.
Brisbane, well not too sure, although one feels for any city that is the capital of a state which is the equivalent of the USA’s deep South.
In a word – vibrancy
It just is
beaches boy is right. Vibrancy. Sydney feels bigger and busier than any other Australian city. It has double the population of Brisbane, and much higher density than Melbourne. It also offers just as much as Melbourne and Brisbane in terms of culture, shopping, fashion. But the icing on top of that, is Sydney’s unparalleled beauty.
Because the Harbour Bridge and Opera House are in Sydney!!!!!
Sydneys beaches and Harbour over Melbourne
Sydney’s everything over Brisbane…except the traffic
Having only had brief stays in Melbourne and never any in Brisbane, the main distinguishing difference I’ve experienced between Sydney and Melbourne is that casual street/social engagement is really not as free flowing in Sydney. Hopping on a tram just about anywhere in Melbourne and a conversation seems to spontaneously erupt. But it’s difficult too see anywhere else, a more beautiful environ then Sydney Harbour.
Maybe Sydney is better and brighter in appearance, but in Melbourne, restaurants serve discounted meals to seniors, and travel is free on Sundays.
Sydneys environment shapes the city, it’s beautiful harbour, the beaches, the mountains – it has everything.
Melbourne is a great city, but that’s all it is, a small city. If your advising a tourist to see Australia, what exactly would you tell them to see in Melbourne – the MCG??!!
pcd2k, It’s a different etiquette. A pedestrian might see thousands of faces in a day in the CBD and it would be nuts if people kept trying to talk to you. I need my peace and Sydneysiders respect that! Melbourne lacks city etiquette, and people act more like they’re in a big country town.