Worlds Most Liveable City - I Win!

Melbourne, Australia, is the worlds most liveable city according to The Economist.

This image was taken from the lawn of my yacht club.



http://www.eiu.com/site_info.asp?info_name=The_Global_Liveability_Report&rf=0

 

ya sure but only of countries that have spiders the size of dinner plates!

of normal countries Vancouver canada...

 

............too flat.

 

...too wet and cloudy.

 

Doesn't surprise me one bit. Anyone I've met who has visited Melbourne has been full of praise for the place and the people. I'd love to go (I have this thing about trams!). You can keep the Redbacks, Taipans, Stonefish, Box Jellies, Blue Rings, Saltwater crocs, Funnel webs though!

 

One of the main reasons that I used to love travelling eastern europe in the 1980s and 1990s was due to trams. I have great memories of cities like Krakow, Prague and Berlin.

 

The liberals who run the media will never pick an American city as "most livable" because they wish to advance a socialist anti-American agenda.

 

LOL, at you back door you have the Dandenong ranges and about an hour you get into the foot hills of the Victoian Alps and ski fields.

To mention only 2 hilly bits

 

Taipans, Stonefish, Box Jellies, Blue Rings, Saltwater crocs, Funnel webs

None of which you will find in Melbourne.

 

Now we are using anything to make up conspiracy theories

 

I haven't heard a bad word about Melbourne, or Australia for that matter, from travellers I have spoken to.

Want to trade for a bit?

 

at the back door there is Grouse Mountain you are in the mountains no need to go an hour.....

but if you really fell the need to drive two hrs you can be at Whistler


then there are those other hilly bits

or if you prefer water sports

and no spiders the size of dinner plates

 

personal preference, I myself dislike desert climates, to ******g hot...

 

Most of the rest I have seen at the zoo. And I travel a lot around the country.

More children die each year from accidental gun shots in the home in the US then what people die from the above mentioned animals including the Great White and other sharks around our many thousands of beautiful beaches.

Actually ten times more people meet their demise in the toilet then what die from shark attacks.

If it doesn't kill me it makes me stronger ... maybe that's why we excel at so much for such a relatively small nation.

If I was to take my choice of a crocodile and a grizzly bear give me a crocodile any day.

If you never ever go, you'll never ever know.

 

The Economist is liberal now is it?

 

Between Canada and Australia we have 7 of the top 10 cities in the world. Very cool

 

I thought Brisbaine was a pretty cool place. Is Melbourne open to having people of color live ther or is it only for people of no color?

 

Sure is cuz

 

Top US cities:
29 Pittsburgh
30 Honolulu
44 LA
56 New York

 

"Melbourne is a diverse and multicultural city. In 2006, 35.8% of its population was born overseas, exceeding the national average of 23.1%. In concordance with national data, Britain is the most commonly reported overseas place of birth, with 4.7%, followed by Italy (2.1%), Vietnam (1.6%), China (1.5%), and New Zealand (1.5%).[151] Melbourne has the world's third largest Greek-speaking population after Athens and Thessaloniki (Melbourne's Greek sister city), and the Vietnamese surname Nguyen is the second most common in Melbourne's phone book.[152] The city also features substantial Indian, Sri Lankan, and Malaysian-born communities, in addition to recent South African and Sudanese influxes. The cultural diversity is reflected in the city's restaurants serving various international cuisines.
Over two-thirds of Melburnians speak only English at home (68.1%). Chinese (mainly Cantonese and Mandarin) is the second-most-common language spoken at home (3.6%), with Greek third, Italian fourth and Vietnamese fifth, each with more than 100,000 speakers."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melbourne#Demographics


Oh and by the way I live in Sydney

 

Gasp, Muslims! According to what I've read on the forum lately Sydney must have lots of 'no-go' areas.

 

The only area's of Sydney I would not go to are the ones with white "Christian" backgrounds.

The biggest problems we have are more socio-economic related. Racial problems however seem to sell more papers, get more air time, and get more bristles up in forums.

I live next to what is known as "The Block" in Sydney and find it great. You will see the streets around where I live if you watch "Underbelly - Razor" which they just finished filming around here.

It's about life in the 20's, prohibition, prostitution and the infamous "Razor Gangs" that controlled the streets after dark.

A good watch to see that even in Australia we have had a life too, both good and bad.

 

Won’t bog this down, but what a stupid arse thing to say. Why is it the forums make people say stupid arse things?

Dominor Vobis indeed.

Sorry....continue.

 

You're right. It is a stupid thing to say. I lived in Sydney for 3 years, and if this guy feels safe walking through Lakemba by himself at night, he is either very stupid, suicidal or a muslim.

 

Oh excuse me, I have only lived in Sydney for about 40 years, and yes I would have no problem. And I am definitely neither Stupid, Suicidal nor Muslim.