My wife and I are coming to Australia in 2013 (February). We are starting our trip in Melbourne. Tjis video is inspiring. Thanks for posting. Please post more. We are also going to the Gold Coast and Sydney.
Hey guys, this is a beautiful video, and i especially loved the song that starts at about 1:00 and finishes at about 2:05! Can anyone tell me what's the name of this incredible song?
I. Love. Melbourne. I live in NSW. I'm only young. 14 to be exact. I have a job. I have money. I'm saving for a car for when I'm 16 and can drive. Then, when I finish school and move out of home, Melbourne, here I come.
Look I have lived in Melbourne my whole life. It is without a doubt one of the best cities in the world if you don't count the outer suburbs. If your moving here make sure your within 20km from the CBD. The houses past this are so artificial and full of bogans. But inner suburbs are well kept with great transport and have style.
@channelrsl Thanks for the information. Actually, the Tafe is in Dandenong, but me and my wife will try to find some place to live in the middle of the way, I mean, between Dandenong and CBD, it's around 20 km or less, I believe. But, thank you anyway.
@MrDedetrindade Personally I wouldnt want to be using public transport from Dandenong, it is a bit of a known hot bed for trouble. I would seriously consider getting a small car, and living in Caulfield South, Chadstone, Burwood South, Wheelers Hill just to name a few sensible middle class suburbs which are around 15 - 25 minutes, easy drive from Dandenong, well worth the extra expense in rent for peace of mind. IMHO.
@SkyhookHKG Thanks for the tips, it's very valuable for us. It's to sad to know that this people goes to Australia and they have the oportunity to do everything different, but they choose to do the same, with the same problems whom made them leave their country. Sad history about the Somali and Sudanese. Your tips are very helpfull and I will remember that and looking for a small and cheap car for my wife. I don't want to live worried when she goes and comeback from Chisholm Institute. Cheers!
im from the U.S. and my parents might move to melbourne. i was wondering how life is over there. i heard some pretty bad things about this place, like about how the only nice part is the business district. is that true? could somebody who lives there tell me how it is?......plz... LMAO
@Nekoramen92 Melbourne is nice,but very few people actually live in the city, like most Americans, Aussies tend to live in suburbs. I can list some suburbs that are close to the city, which you might find appealing if you do a little research after. In order of of my own prefs: Williamstown ( my home town ), St Kilda, Port Melbourne, Parkville, Carlton, Fitztroy, South Melbourne, Moonee Ponds, Toorak, South Yarra, Prahan, Studley Park Kew, Upper Richmond, Armadale, Malvern, Hawthorn, kew.
@MrDedetrindade I wouldnt live there, it's not a nice place to live and well known to police for ethnic violence, usually caused by Somali and Sudanese immigrants who have brought old cultural fights to Australian shores. Not a great situation and its unfortunate when some recent immigrant groups refuse to enjoy a better life in Australia, to just recreate the same problems they escaped from there, in Australia. It's going to take a generation or two to fix that, maybe.....
@Northern85Star Greetings Danish ! Yeah we have had a few teething problems, which need to be addressed with a bit of honesty by the Australian authorities, unfortunately one of Australia's biggest problems is that it suffers UK levels of Political Correctness which, in my opinion, causes more problems. Mainstream multi-cultural communities are a bit like baking a cake, sometimes the wrong choice of ingredients can spoil how the cake turns out, or something new ie improved.
As a European / Canadian living near Melbourne, I have to say that everything is here what the U.S. has with the exception of huge houses, as Australian homes tend to be just ground level and fairly small footprint, but they are made of bricks and of European quality. They don't have any basements either like what we are used to.
Life is good here, but it's still very much 'English' and that needs to be mentioned. The food is good, but cars are double as expensive as in the U.S.
@Nekoramen92 The Melbourne CBD is ok. Everywhere outside the CBD, the residential areas are really awfully ugly. Melbourne's neighborhoods are an endless, monotonous sea of ugly, run down little brown brick homes with equally ugly yards. This city is totally different from the well kept, tree lined, shady suburbs with large yards you find throughout North America. 95% of homes are brown or red brick which makes for very depressing and monotonous neighborhoods. UGH!!!
@Nekoramen92 I'm a Brit and my parents moved to Melbourne last March. Amazing city, clean, safe, efficient. Everything costs a little more in Australia but jobs pay so much better it makes up for it. Put it this way, I hate cities, HATE them. But I love Melbourne. It's so diverse and cultured meaning there's incredible food, an amazing arts scene and lots of interesting people. And I feel really safe. Melbourne's great, you'll be luck if you get to live there
@brfellis Nice one ! round of applause with that vitriolic remark, which makes you look even worse ! Why so angry today, B ? What happened ? People weren't like this 20 years ago, why are you ? A decent human being would have just responded to Kentucky explaining that the game played in the video clip was Aussie Rules Footy ( AFL ) and have been done with it, but no, you had to be nasty.... Not good bloke, real Aussies give everybody a fair go, even people we don't like ;).
Can I just say that it would be nice if we could keep the comments civil ? I don't think there is any need for any racially biased vitriol. I grew up in Melbourne's western suburbs, when it was predominantly Italians, Greeks, Yugoslavs, Polish and obviously Anglo Saxon. I also grew up with the first Vietnamese immigrants which arrived in 1976, and proud of Melbs multicultural diversity. It's what makes the city interesting, the food so wonderful and ethnically diverse. No need to argue people!
@SkyhookHKG YOU ARE SO CORRECT I LIVE IN SCOTLAND AND WOULD DO ANYTHING TO BE BACK IN MELBOURNE.I LEFT TO RETURN HOME IN 1969. BIGGEST MISTAKE IN MY LIFE.MY LOVE FOR MELBOURNE WILL NEVER DIE. THANK YOU FOR SHARING, GOD BLESS
@mytramplady Thanks for dropping by, don't feel bad, Scotland is going through a bit of a renaissance, and hopefully will gain it's independence from the United Kingdom, this decade.... :)
Melbourne has one of the most vibrant live music cities around. There is always something going on, but helps if you get out of the house, hey ;). Nothing dead about it, especially the el fresco cafe culture and many outdoor sporting events that are staged during there year. If Melbourne is dead to you, then it is more to do with you, than the city itself.
@2paacalipse 2 of your points are wrong. Melbourne does not have 5 million people, and Melbourne is not dead.How can a city who just came 2nd in the worlds most liveable cities be a dead city?I understand coming from a country like Croatia, full of war, anger and fighting,Melbourne might not be on that same level of excitement for you.But Melbourne is vibrant, multicultural and very alive. Your the 1st person ever to say something like that about Melbourne. Number 2 city is not dead its a leader
OK. Go to chappel street on a friday night, DEAD... Go to Lygon Street on a friday almost dead....(some pizza places re full)... go to King street..DEAD even the stripclubs are dead...on a friday... Few caffes at docklands working and st. Kilda is dead accept Fitsroy street...a bit vibrant...
How many caffes do you have a long side of the bay? So you accpect me to go to the beach without sufficiant shade in an ozone situation as it is and get cancer? I acspect a line of caffes where I can properly buy my self a drink! Instead instead you butter your self like an idiot with sunscream dehydrating in burning sun and you dont even have a sufficiant place to park.
I am not trying to be disrespectful ! Coming from croatia as you have mentioned from a war, I am greatful to be here... BUT
@2paacalipse Well myFriendLooksLikeYouHave a problemWith MelbourneAlthoughYourIssuesAreThings peopleNever SeemToWorry About.I think you analyse things too much. Your points are very invalid. Your entitled to feel how you feel, doesn't mean you're right. If you have these issues with MelbourneThanYouCan remain in Croatia, although thatCountryHasMadeAbsolutelyNoContribution toTheWorldAndTheCities there are no good. Melbourne will continue to be the 2nd most liveable city in the world without you.
@2paacalipse first of all douch the word is spelt expect not accpect. What do you mean sunscream? It's either sun cream on sun screen. Seriously with infrastructure like Melbourne has for public transport why the fuck would you even need a car? Croatia just sounds like some gypsy backwater from hell with some crazy Croats and Albanians thrown in together. Sounds like Umm, gee, how do I say this as nice as possible? FUCKED UP!
please with all the Indians and Sri lankans and other jungle fucks you import where do you get of calling some other country "gypsy"... secondly the bougen Aussies are worse than gypsies...
And when you are speaking about a country with the oldest CULTURE in Europe and even the world and say something stupid like that that just proves that you are an uneducated gypsy your self.
Yes Melbourne has some great places, thanks to the Europeans that make these places great
My wife and I are coming to Australia in 2013 (February). We are starting our trip in Melbourne. Tjis video is inspiring. Thanks for posting. Please post more. We are also going to the Gold Coast and Sydney.
Boelcke1919 3 days ago
@Boelcke1919 you gotta see melbourne :D Gold coast is like a smaller Honolulu hehe,
dmsghostt 2 days ago
2:27 how did horses ever get to australia?
1991maulwurf 3 weeks ago
Hey guys, this is a beautiful video, and i especially loved the song that starts at about 1:00 and finishes at about 2:05! Can anyone tell me what's the name of this incredible song?
leisureguyx 4 weeks ago
how old is this vid? It looks heaps older than when i went there in 06
OFWGKTAcunt 1 month ago
Melbourne: Most Livable City in the World as of 2011. I love living here-just a short train ride into the city to shop with my friends!
DestinyDragonGirl 1 month ago
I. Love. Melbourne. I live in NSW. I'm only young. 14 to be exact. I have a job. I have money. I'm saving for a car for when I'm 16 and can drive. Then, when I finish school and move out of home, Melbourne, here I come.
codismyBxTCH 1 month ago
Look I have lived in Melbourne my whole life. It is without a doubt one of the best cities in the world if you don't count the outer suburbs. If your moving here make sure your within 20km from the CBD. The houses past this are so artificial and full of bogans. But inner suburbs are well kept with great transport and have style.
channelrsl 1 month ago 2
@channelrsl Thanks for the information. Actually, the Tafe is in Dandenong, but me and my wife will try to find some place to live in the middle of the way, I mean, between Dandenong and CBD, it's around 20 km or less, I believe. But, thank you anyway.
MrDedetrindade 1 month ago
@MrDedetrindade Personally I wouldnt want to be using public transport from Dandenong, it is a bit of a known hot bed for trouble. I would seriously consider getting a small car, and living in Caulfield South, Chadstone, Burwood South, Wheelers Hill just to name a few sensible middle class suburbs which are around 15 - 25 minutes, easy drive from Dandenong, well worth the extra expense in rent for peace of mind. IMHO.
SkyhookHKG 1 month ago
@SkyhookHKG Thanks for the tips, it's very valuable for us. It's to sad to know that this people goes to Australia and they have the oportunity to do everything different, but they choose to do the same, with the same problems whom made them leave their country. Sad history about the Somali and Sudanese. Your tips are very helpfull and I will remember that and looking for a small and cheap car for my wife. I don't want to live worried when she goes and comeback from Chisholm Institute. Cheers!
MrDedetrindade 1 month ago
What about Dandenong? Is it a good place to live?
MrDedetrindade 2 months ago
airing this on television would really boost tourism in Melbourne. Such a great film put together. I happily recall watching it at Rialto cinema.
Tubetheweb 3 months ago 2
im from the U.S. and my parents might move to melbourne. i was wondering how life is over there. i heard some pretty bad things about this place, like about how the only nice part is the business district. is that true? could somebody who lives there tell me how it is?......plz... LMAO
Nekoramen92 3 months ago
@Nekoramen92 Melbourne is nice,but very few people actually live in the city, like most Americans, Aussies tend to live in suburbs. I can list some suburbs that are close to the city, which you might find appealing if you do a little research after. In order of of my own prefs: Williamstown ( my home town ), St Kilda, Port Melbourne, Parkville, Carlton, Fitztroy, South Melbourne, Moonee Ponds, Toorak, South Yarra, Prahan, Studley Park Kew, Upper Richmond, Armadale, Malvern, Hawthorn, kew.
SkyhookHKG 3 months ago
@SkyhookHKG, What about Dandenong? Is it a good place to live?
MrDedetrindade 2 months ago
@MrDedetrindade I wouldnt live there, it's not a nice place to live and well known to police for ethnic violence, usually caused by Somali and Sudanese immigrants who have brought old cultural fights to Australian shores. Not a great situation and its unfortunate when some recent immigrant groups refuse to enjoy a better life in Australia, to just recreate the same problems they escaped from there, in Australia. It's going to take a generation or two to fix that, maybe.....
SkyhookHKG 1 month ago
@SkyhookHKG Somalis and in general muslim immigrants cause problems every where - not just Melbourne. Greetings from Denmark
Northern85Star 4 weeks ago
@Northern85Star Greetings Danish ! Yeah we have had a few teething problems, which need to be addressed with a bit of honesty by the Australian authorities, unfortunately one of Australia's biggest problems is that it suffers UK levels of Political Correctness which, in my opinion, causes more problems. Mainstream multi-cultural communities are a bit like baking a cake, sometimes the wrong choice of ingredients can spoil how the cake turns out, or something new ie improved.
SkyhookHKG 3 weeks ago
@SkyhookHKG That's a good way to put it! Putting monocultural ingredients into a multicultural cake might tear it apart.
Hope to end my education with 6 months of studying down under, currently looks like Melbourne but im hoping to go a bit more north :) Cheers!
Northern85Star 3 weeks ago
@Nekoramen92 What bad things did you here?
IIproductionsII 3 months ago
@Nekoramen92 i have lived in melbourne all of my life. its fantastic .
planes100 2 months ago
@Nekoramen92
As a European / Canadian living near Melbourne, I have to say that everything is here what the U.S. has with the exception of huge houses, as Australian homes tend to be just ground level and fairly small footprint, but they are made of bricks and of European quality. They don't have any basements either like what we are used to.
Life is good here, but it's still very much 'English' and that needs to be mentioned. The food is good, but cars are double as expensive as in the U.S.
tobagotb10 2 months ago
@Nekoramen92 business district ya cant live in mate lmao get to the outer eastern suburbs wantirna south or farther out
cathead94 2 months ago
@Nekoramen92 The Melbourne CBD is ok. Everywhere outside the CBD, the residential areas are really awfully ugly. Melbourne's neighborhoods are an endless, monotonous sea of ugly, run down little brown brick homes with equally ugly yards. This city is totally different from the well kept, tree lined, shady suburbs with large yards you find throughout North America. 95% of homes are brown or red brick which makes for very depressing and monotonous neighborhoods. UGH!!!
Max5941 1 month ago
@Nekoramen92 I'm a Brit and my parents moved to Melbourne last March. Amazing city, clean, safe, efficient. Everything costs a little more in Australia but jobs pay so much better it makes up for it. Put it this way, I hate cities, HATE them. But I love Melbourne. It's so diverse and cultured meaning there's incredible food, an amazing arts scene and lots of interesting people. And I feel really safe. Melbourne's great, you'll be luck if you get to live there
SugarLoris 1 month ago
I'm sorry, but the sport (rugby?) that is shown in 4:00 looks prety gay, especially because of those super short shorts! :-D
KentuckyChicken2 3 months ago
@KentuckyChicken2 from your naive comment and your username i almost bet your a bloody yank and just to prove your arrogance its not rugby dipshit!!
brfellis 3 months ago
@brfellis Nice one ! round of applause with that vitriolic remark, which makes you look even worse ! Why so angry today, B ? What happened ? People weren't like this 20 years ago, why are you ? A decent human being would have just responded to Kentucky explaining that the game played in the video clip was Aussie Rules Footy ( AFL ) and have been done with it, but no, you had to be nasty.... Not good bloke, real Aussies give everybody a fair go, even people we don't like ;).
SkyhookHKG 3 months ago
@SkyhookHKG you're right...my bad! knida did make me look like a wanker didnt it! haha ima die hard rugby league fan! Kentucks sorry mate!
brfellis 3 months ago
@brfellis That's cool man, water under the bridge, mate. I think it's your shout for a beer with Kentuckys and my name on them... lol
SkyhookHKG 3 months ago
@brfellis
I wasn't really serious, but oh well...
And behind the word rugby was also a question mark, FYI!
KentuckyChicken2 3 months ago
Can I just say that it would be nice if we could keep the comments civil ? I don't think there is any need for any racially biased vitriol. I grew up in Melbourne's western suburbs, when it was predominantly Italians, Greeks, Yugoslavs, Polish and obviously Anglo Saxon. I also grew up with the first Vietnamese immigrants which arrived in 1976, and proud of Melbs multicultural diversity. It's what makes the city interesting, the food so wonderful and ethnically diverse. No need to argue people!
SkyhookHKG 4 months ago 10
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@SkyhookHKG What about Dandenong? Is it a good place to live?
MrDedetrindade 2 months ago
@SkyhookHKG YOU ARE SO CORRECT I LIVE IN SCOTLAND AND WOULD DO ANYTHING TO BE BACK IN MELBOURNE.I LEFT TO RETURN HOME IN 1969. BIGGEST MISTAKE IN MY LIFE.MY LOVE FOR MELBOURNE WILL NEVER DIE. THANK YOU FOR SHARING, GOD BLESS
mytramplady 1 month ago
@mytramplady Thanks for dropping by, don't feel bad, Scotland is going through a bit of a renaissance, and hopefully will gain it's independence from the United Kingdom, this decade.... :)
SkyhookHKG 3 weeks ago
Melbourne has one of the most vibrant live music cities around. There is always something going on, but helps if you get out of the house, hey ;). Nothing dead about it, especially the el fresco cafe culture and many outdoor sporting events that are staged during there year. If Melbourne is dead to you, then it is more to do with you, than the city itself.
SkyhookHKG 6 months ago 5
melbourne is one of the deadest cities int he world ! Sad but true... How can a Friday night be dead in a city of 5 million people ?
2paacalipse 6 months ago
Firday night's are great, you obviously didn't meet any friends to know where to go.
micktrainor92 6 months ago
@micktrainor92
name a few where you go?
2paacalipse 6 months ago
@2paacalipse 2 of your points are wrong. Melbourne does not have 5 million people, and Melbourne is not dead.How can a city who just came 2nd in the worlds most liveable cities be a dead city?I understand coming from a country like Croatia, full of war, anger and fighting,Melbourne might not be on that same level of excitement for you.But Melbourne is vibrant, multicultural and very alive. Your the 1st person ever to say something like that about Melbourne. Number 2 city is not dead its a leader
AntonioAzz 6 months ago
@AntonioAzz
OK. Go to chappel street on a friday night, DEAD... Go to Lygon Street on a friday almost dead....(some pizza places re full)... go to King street..DEAD even the stripclubs are dead...on a friday... Few caffes at docklands working and st. Kilda is dead accept Fitsroy street...a bit vibrant...
2paacalipse 6 months ago
How many caffes do you have a long side of the bay? So you accpect me to go to the beach without sufficiant shade in an ozone situation as it is and get cancer? I acspect a line of caffes where I can properly buy my self a drink! Instead instead you butter your self like an idiot with sunscream dehydrating in burning sun and you dont even have a sufficiant place to park.
I am not trying to be disrespectful ! Coming from croatia as you have mentioned from a war, I am greatful to be here... BUT
2paacalipse 6 months ago
@2paacalipse Well myFriendLooksLikeYouHave a problemWith MelbourneAlthoughYourIssuesAreThings peopleNever SeemToWorry About.I think you analyse things too much. Your points are very invalid. Your entitled to feel how you feel, doesn't mean you're right. If you have these issues with MelbourneThanYouCan remain in Croatia, although thatCountryHasMadeAbsolutelyNoContribution toTheWorldAndTheCities there are no good. Melbourne will continue to be the 2nd most liveable city in the world without you.
AntonioAzz 6 months ago
@2paacalipse first of all douch the word is spelt expect not accpect. What do you mean sunscream? It's either sun cream on sun screen. Seriously with infrastructure like Melbourne has for public transport why the fuck would you even need a car? Croatia just sounds like some gypsy backwater from hell with some crazy Croats and Albanians thrown in together. Sounds like Umm, gee, how do I say this as nice as possible? FUCKED UP!
MrSlipperyfish 4 months ago
@MrSlipperyfish
please with all the Indians and Sri lankans and other jungle fucks you import where do you get of calling some other country "gypsy"... secondly the bougen Aussies are worse than gypsies...
And when you are speaking about a country with the oldest CULTURE in Europe and even the world and say something stupid like that that just proves that you are an uneducated gypsy your self.
Yes Melbourne has some great places, thanks to the Europeans that make these places great
2paacalipse 4 months ago