Why Melbourne Sucks
I’ve decided it is time to really go into this subject
I previously wrote
I really hate Melbourne. I used to love it, but now I hate it. After working two jobs in the city, I have realised that the people of Melbourne are oppurtunists. For example:
Trams and Trains: It doesnt matter if you get on a packed train at the first stop, and by halfway through the ride, it is emptied due to people changing to go to another line, and as you move to sit down, someone who just gone on, pushes you out of the way so they can sit down on the seat you were heading for.
Shopping: Many times Ive stood inline to buy whatever I wanted at the time, to have snotty girls dressed like they should be working at hooters to push in infront of me and to take longer to pay due to their phone coversation. Typically this consists of “ohhhhhh my godddddd” and other shit that I couldnt really give two hoots about.
There are many other examples, to me it makes me question Is Melbourne really the most liveable city?
I think not.
Look at our drivers for example, road rage galore. Our teenagers not only have no hope of ever owning their own home, or even going to university to study law or medicine due to Uni fees and interest rates, but they have no hope due to the way they are, they abuse people, they fight, they smoke and drink on trains, they show no respect to the elderly, who are the ones who went to war so these prissy little stuck up pricks could smoke and drink on trains. They live with a silver spoon in their mouth, a computer and playstation/xbox for every birthday and christmas and they expect the world to give them everything as we owe them something?
My new update and thought on this however is
I know that I have touched on this subject before, However I beleive that my previous rant about Melbourne was written hastely, and if I were to rewrite it like I am now, I could cover a lot more areas and dive more deeply into the basis of my dislike towards the city that I reside in.
I was born in Melbourne in the 80′s. Due to my fathers work, we were offered the chance to live in Perth when I was 6. There was also an offer to move to Canada. Both options would have changed my life dramatically. Our standard of living would have risen. However, we stayed put. The only place I have lived is Melbourne. I’ve lived through the times of the Melbourne Underworld, which was made famous from the “Underbelly” tv series which focused on the underword from the late 80′s to 2008.
I lived in the north suburbs for most of my life, I did live in the outer east for a while once I was an adult. I was born in Reservoir, and did not leave until I was 18. I then moved to Mill Park and while there split my time between there and Croydon. However, I am not sheltered by any means when it comes to surburbs in Melbourne.
I have experienced luxury living within the city, scummy drug affected areas like Richmond, and witnessed first account of what does happen in those big ugly brown units. I’ve also worked in various locations around Melbourne, in and out of the city. I’ve also experienced our so call shopping centres. Northlands, The Glen, Whitehorse.
The whole point of going deeper into this, is to try and establish as to why it sucks and how the current situation may have come about. Drugs, Crime, dirtiness and Alcohol problems.
Melbourne was established in 1835. 47 years after the first European settlement of australia. Our history, is that we derive from convicts. That is only the beginning however, After those first ships sailed into botany bay, and many aboriginals were murdered and driven off cliff’s, we gained population from migration. Italy, Greece, England, America, Asia, the middle east.
We are a “Multicultural” city. We depend on tourism, and overseas workers, Although this brings its own problems. Melbourne is not united. It does not matter how many “harmony” walks you have through the city, there will still be a great big wall dividing us.
We have Chinatown in little Bourke street, Little Greece, somewhere in the city, which is being taken over slowly by Chinatown, and then we have little Italy.
The problem in melbourne is that a lot of indian students are being bashed. It is not a case of white vs indian. The pricks who are bashing people, are also indian, they are asian, they are european, However, sometimes the population of migrants who have no manners shit me that much that I tell if they were not so rude and pushy they wouldnt get bashed all the time. I know, its politically wrong of me. But when I am in a shop waiting to pay for something and there is a long line behind me and a rude prick pushes in to pay $3.21 on a fucking credit card, then I get real shitty.
There is no assimilation with migrants, they are not above the rest of the population, just like the rest of the population is not above them. I will not have a muslim for example, speak to me like I am a piece of shit, and when this has happened, the arsehole has copped a barrage of abuse from me.
But the problem of melbourne, isnt just the rude pricks who visit here or live here. Our courts are being paid for god knows what. You can murder someone and get 5 years for it. But if you break a “civil law” then you are more fucked up. You can bash someone, and get a good behaviour bond, If you are a footballer, or sportsman, you can rape someone or assault them, and get off on the charge. And this is partly why, there is a life of crime, our “rolemodels” break the law and get away with it, so people think they can do the same and get away with it, and most of them do.
Melbourne needs tougher punishment, we need judges who will punish criminals instead of letting them walk free. And if international students or tourists break the law, deport them asap and ban them from re-entering Australia forever.
As with everywhere, we have Italians, Greeks, Spaniards, Croates, Serbs and so on walking around like they are top shit, the little pissy gangs who think they own “turf” hey, you think you own lalor station? Great, if so, clean it the fuck up, it needs a new coat of paint and the tiles need to be mopped. Same with those who think they own certain shopping centers. If I “owned” Northlands, or Chadstone, I wouldnt be sitting around getting high on spray paint or drinking in the gutter with my fully sik mates. I would be off spending all the money I would have from the profits. Oh wait, you dont have profits, boo hoo you dont really own it. Get the drift?
Melbourne itself has tourist attractions. Apparently. Melbourne aquarium, the MCG, Flinders station, Crown Casino, Bourke St Mall, Docklands, Melbourne Zoo. And so on.
Have you ever been to the Aquarium? I went a few times, my nephew and I managed to walk through it in 28 minutes. He was bored. Its not exciting, a lot of it is empty space with nothing to see. Wow there are a few different types of jelly fish in little tanks and then some ocean fish and snakes in a big round tank. Then you have more fish, and sharks downstairs, yes, because a tank of the same species of sharks as well as 500 of the same god damn fish swimming around in circles is so entertaining to see. And now there are penguins, the price rises because they have built another room, but you know what? The penguins are not that exciting.
The MCG?? Yes its so much fun to go there, but only if you like cricket or football. If you dont like those sports, dont bother going there. Flinders station you ask?? There is a new game, spot the one sitting on the steps wearing color. Unless you are gothic or emo, this isnt really an attraction that is worth seeing. Oh, yeah and I hope you dont mind looking at all the clocks with broken windows underneath them. You know how they got like that? Indians protesting against the violence, decided to vandalise them. Because breaking a law while protesting against someone else breaking laws is like so cool! And will surely make you get noticed.
Crown Casino? Yes, go waste your money. Its such a great entertainment venue, so great infact that the majority of people who go there are tourists.
Bourke Street mall has cleaned up, I admit that, Its a lot brighter at night time, and it is so much cleaner then it used to be, but in the same sense if you dont like Myers or David Jones there isnt anything else for you to do there.
The docklands are great, they are new, and rather refreshing, but there isnt too much there, apart from a failed wheel. The shopping is okay for now, even though you go once, you go twice, but its different shops as the previous ones have closed down. And as for melbourne zoo, everytime I have been there, masses of animals are never on show.
Melbourne has an issue with graffiti. It is everywhere, murals are not so bad, but “tags” are just disgusting and are all over the place. How can we be the most livable city when we look like a pile of dog turd that has been smothered all over the footpath?
Things need to be done in order to clean this place up. More police on the street? Tighter liquor licensing laws? Who knows. Maybe education needs to be in place in high schools and universities as well as tafes, about the effects of illegal and legal drugs as well as what may happen when people are under the influence. Maybe curfews needs to be in place for certain areas of the city, which I know would move the trouble elsewhere, and business would be lost. But something needs to be done, to punish those who repeatively go out and drink and then cause problems.
I saw a male being apprehended by the police on the corner of flinders and swanston street one night, about 8pm. He was very drunk and abusive, spat in the face of police and then told them “You cant touch me, im a visitor” Which makes me think, the problem isnt just in our backyard, it is also an international problem which unfortunately is pounding the wax out of our ears. But the question is, why are so many people suddenly acting out like this once they have a few drinks? Why here and not anywhere else? Is it because we allow it by not having a stronger justice system? Do we need to pull back on everything recreational and put more police out on the street to fight against this crap? Which would then lead to less police in other areas so crime or law breaking would rise in other areas.
New York had this problem once, Now its safer then it has ever been. They put police out on the streets. Maybe it will work here, but another problem I think we have is that our pathetic city council is rather happy to spend $240,000 on a silly logo that someone who just learnt how to make graphics in the ‘omgz its the internet” era of 1996-1999. Why not allow the people of Melbourne to design a logo or image that they think defines Melbourne? Why give it to an american company whose Australian headquarters are in Sydney?
The point is though is that the council spends so much money on crap, that they could be funneling that money to fixing the CBD. Would it hurt them to fix up the look of the streets? Cracked footpaths, or ones which have been lifted up because of roots growing from the trees? I know we have streetsweepers, for the road and the footpath, and they have no problem in running people over. But Melbourne deserves better then this. Sure we are a sporting mecca, but with the mix of sporting and alcohol, Melbourne isnt much else. Oh there is food too, Great isnt it, go watch some sport, have a drink or 50 and then eat a kabab. Melbourne needs a definition. Something that we can all work towards and achieve. Something that is realisitc.
Melbourne – the drunk town
Melbourne – violence is just around the corner.
Great sayings for now isnt it? Because really, it is our current definition. Why cant we work towards something more happy?Melbourne – Where all our worlds come together.
Multiculturalism at its finest, bringing together the worlds of many types of people in any shape or form. That does not currently describe Melbourne. Funny hey?
So in conclusion, Melbourne was a great place to live maybe 5 years ago, but now, it’s just another city on a map that has major problems. Its a blur amongst the terrain, it only stands out now because of its problems.
all cities are like that. you think melbourne is hell? you wouldn’t last a day in NYC
Anna, there are a lot more reasons, but it was a quick blog post.
Melbourne is a disappointing, underwhelming HOLE of a city. First off, except for the small CBD area, the city is soooooo dreary and ugly and just the SAME everywhere. The city is a sea of cookie cutter red brick bungalows; suburb after suburb of monotonous nearly identical homes. People don’t maintain their homes and yards very well and they have a habit of parking their cars ON THEIR FRONT YARDS which makes the neighborhoods look really low class and trashy. The amount of graffiti, litter and vandalism is incredible; everywhere you look there is grafitti or something vandalized. The public transit trains are disgusting and filled with low class, drunken, dirty people. The view out the window of the train as one rides into the city from the suburbs is very much like a third world city: endless grafitti and litter and very run down buildings. It is sooooo depressing. I guess the zoning laws are very lax as you will see homes among very industrial areas. Neighborhood store fronts are very unattractive with simple handpainted wooden signs- again there is a lack of standards. It seems like people have no pride in their city or communities; they have no desire to make where they live a better place. In fact it’s just the opposite. This city is nothing like a North American city where the suburbs tend to be havens where people are proud of their homes and yards and communities. There is NO community spirit or pride here.
I utterly agree with the sentiment! Melbourne does suck, I am originally from beautiful (never thought i’d say that when i left it 10 years ago) Sydney, and i’ve regrettably spent the last few years in this flat, pseudo-culture lame city. No environmental lanscapes of note, just 2 filthy brown rivers, no native bush reserves of any note, nepotism galore, inward looking cliques, and worse of all- native Melburnians! They actually think this place is great! What a joke! I am about to get out of footscray- the suburb of zero tree cover, a corrupt council, rubbish, and a dumping place for migrants, junkie criminals and uneducated trash, to get back to the bush, and i can’t wait! Huzzah! I will never return to live here.
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I agree, Melbourne is such a crap place. Have only been here for just 6 months and after living in Adelaide and then Wellington NZ I have found Melbourne to be so unfriendly, since being here I have become invisible noone seems to notice I exist as a person, and at St Kilda local celebs who own bars are pretenious and up their arses (chef celebs)…also the taxi drivers are totally useless… they havent a clue where they are going. I have travelled and lived in the UK, NZ, and OZ which includes Sydney, Gold Coast, Adelaide, Cairns and Darwin and Melbourne must be the most pretentious, ugly place in OZ… where are the real open hearted Ozzies… not in Melbourne thats for sure, what a shame for Australia which I have always thought is a great place…except for Melbourne…dont think I will stay thats for sure, give me Adelaide or Gold Coast anytime. This is my personal experience.
When I first went to Perth, I could never get over the difference between the two cities. Perth was so clean, its water features, were not full of algae or anything, just crystal clear water.
Melbourne on the other hand, has dirty buildings, roads, paths, and the people are actually quite off putting.
I cant wait to move out of melbourne.
i was really thinking that melbourne would be the place for me because of all the old buildings and culture and atmosphere i’d created in my head towards it from pictures etc but when i got there, it was just ok-ish. i don’t know, i am not at heart a city girl, i am a bit country, i think if i lived in the country i wouldn’t mind it as a city to visit every now and then, but it was pretty easy and ok, not the ‘OMG i LOVE melbourne’ response i thought i would have. i guess if you’re old money over there life is good but if youre middle class you’re forced into the cheaper, dingy looking suburban life which is although old (and i like old homes) – theres just not that much atmos. hmm i dunno. i was so against the idea of sydney cos im not into youth culture or modern things but i wouldnt mind a happier atmos i guess. maybe perth is the go..? man
nina, melbourne has a weird feel to it. i find that a lot of people hated going into the city once they got rid of the MET with the conductors and so on, and since then, crime has gone up and so on, which in turn puts the crime in the city and runs the city down. the boost in house prices has been a good thing, as it equals more money for those who sell and want to build bigger and better, it modernises it all, but its been just as bad as well.
Perth is a clean city, I think the only problem i ever found with it while there was the aboriginals near the main train station who would mouth off and so on.
Melbourne’s sub culture has succeeded again. It protects our city. It embraces those that contribute to the city. It ostracises those that cannot. We thank you for leaving.
Woah Mel,
Melbourne has some great points, but it has its bad points as well. Everyone looks at things differently, and its not just melbournes sub culture out there. its the lack of culture in some parts.
Melbourne people are some of the most self centered people i have met anywhere in the world.. and i have seen most of it.
Give me sydney, Gold cost, perth.. but get me out of melbourne!
ARE YOU GUYS ALL FROM SYDNEY. YOU GUYS ARE PROBERBLY JUST JELOUS THAT MELBOURNE HAS TAKEN OVER SYDNEY.SYDNEY SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THEY HAVE JUST RELIED ON THERE OPERA HOUSE AND BORING BRIDGE LIKE WATEVER IT’S A HOUSE WITH A COOL ROOF AND A BRIDGE!!!!!! WHO CARES!!!!!!!!SYDNEY HAS NO TOURISTS ANYMORE THAT’S WHY THERE TRYING TO STEAL THE AUSTRALIAN OPEN.
Hello everyone and allow me to introduce myself.
My name is……. and I’m a Vietnamese person from the South. I’ve lived in Melbourne for nearly 10 years and now I’m almost 20 year old and this is my opinion on Melbourne.
It is true that Melbourne is dirty, stinky and alot of selfish, rude and crazy people and I will tell you why.
Back 2 years ago when I just came back to Australia after my oversea vacasion and I been harassed by a few random people and for that reason I’ve builded a level of sentiment against people.
Back then I used to love white people alot and I thought they are the savior of the earth or something and I thought god must have blessed them with all the lands (islands) they have now because god knew that they will share it with people of the rest of the world with different background that made up for multiculture they have now in Australia.
But I’m wrong, and because of the reason I had been harassed by white people I have turned my hatred against them but now I don’t really hate anyone anymore. Because I guess, it could be us that made everyone turned agaisnt us instead.
When we compare to other races, we find ourselves ugly,small, little, dark skinned, dirty and disgusting people so it should be common to be hated. But I hope everyone know that we come from a third world country, a country of VietNam where it had been eroded through countless of wars throughout our history and we have became what those wars made what we are right now. We wasn’t born from a educated country with all of the facilities available, we don’t even have prides in ourself and when we compare ourself to other ethnics we often cover our face in the shadow because of how shameful we feel.
It’s true that some Aussies are racist but I don’t hate them because I know how they feel, I also understood that all of the immigrants they brought into their country have brought shames among themselves, this wave of immigrants have made the country so dirty, ugly and disgusting.
But how i feel is something also completely different instead. Because whenever I go on a train, people often get shocked, scared and yell at me if I look at them. I were taught to be observant so that i can look after the locals, for example; remembering the faces of those who commit crimes, knowing the details of the crime scene to report to the polices.
But for some reasons whenever they see me, they often yell out and act like as if I’m going to kill them or something and so i have decided to ignore all of them and only care for myself. Maybe this will explain to you the reason why people you would feel isolated in this city.
I have learned so much in the past few years and I don’t even bother with such problems anymore, it is easy for people to hate because they only care for themselves. Living in this city, from African to Asian and White people, these people have taught me the law of nature where the strongest will be at the top and the weakest will be at the bottom. I’ve learned how to live by myself and learn by myself and not to be generous to anyone because I will probably end up being suspected. I also have learned to care and look after myself only because no one will give a damn if weather I will die or not and all of the unqualified cheap Chinese doctors with probably a fake doctorial degree would easily try to get rid of me really fast whenever i see them (because i talk too much?)
I don’t take a month to learn about human selfishness and how the Middle Eastern people rule over the city in Melbourne and would look down on my anytime or even white people themselves. I feel retarded to be where i live right now and I feel so ashamed to be human.
I’m now fascinated by Michio Kaku and Albert Eistein’s theories and I wish to complete my UNI one day and fullfil my dream.
I want to wipe out all human being on this planet because we are nothing but parasites digging holes into this beautiful planet and it is also a good way to prevent these parasites to take over another beautiful livable planet where else in other universes.
I’m sorry you have to read this, but I’m sick of people and to me people are nothing but stupid, hedeous, babaric who always look down on the unfortunate. I really don’t feel sympathy for anyone and I wouldn’t care less if my people die or someone else die. I would only feel happy once everyone die instead
LoU, Im from melbourne, and alot of the people who have commented here are either from Melbourne, or have lived in Melbourne
You see this misanthropic gook ‘Michio Koku’?
This is why our country is fucked. We let these killer, cold hearted slopes in, and now, they don’t care if we die, she just said as much, the cunt.
Well i’ll tell you gook, there is only one gook in the world, and billion clones of it.
Melbourne is a fuck hole. Kennett fucked it up. It is nothing but a bunch of fucking clones in suits, who think the accumulation of a few suitcases of money, is a worthy use of one’s only decades on this earth. They are the most soulless, disgusting, cunts in the world.
The uneducated, poor melbourne people, are people that the middle class doesn’t give a FUCK about. It is plain to see.
These pathetic fucking ‘upwardly mobile’ fucksticks, can can fly to the fucking sky and crash in a fiery jet crash for all I fucking care.
The ONLY people who like Melbourne are those who were born there and are too dumb to know any different, and third world desperados keen to ape western culture, or what they see as western culture.
I’d fucking laugh if Melbourne got nuked. Fucking burn the cunt down. Piece of shit. Filled with corporate fucking shills and heartless fucking snobs. DIE CUNTS. The only reason I don’t kill you is because of the threat of prison. There is no fucking moral reason to keep you around.
i have to agree with a lot of the comments here. i moved interstate to melbourne and was shocked at the selfish manipulative inward nature of so many people i met. this is not one livable city at all! everyone is clickey, full of life baggage and just looking for someone to take out their issues on… avoid! i am now in the UK and have actually met much better grounded and good natured people here…
Melbourne SUCKS!! Been here 2 months on a working holiday visa for the UK and I have to say its the worst place I have ever been. Its about 10 years behind the rest of the world! I cant wait to leave as i feel like i have wasted months of my life in this shit hole! USA is so much better!!
i agree comletely… melbourne has shrouded itself with its view that it is the most prestigious city in all australia. Just watch the sunday television prgrams and u can see how up themselves they are. constantly ramming shit about special restaurants and events etc. in the city.
First of all Melbourne is an underdeveloped city that was not built for a growing population. You can easily tell this by the crap infrastructure it has (public transport issues etc.). Just look at how stupid the system works. Ive been to other cities like london that have more intelligent systems like underground subways… it seems to me that melbounre is at least 10 years behind the rest of the world and doesnt seem to be catching up either.
Secondly melbourne itself does not attract you from first sight. there is nothing substantial about it. buildings are average to mediocre, attractions are few and sparse, cleanliness is a major issue, you can even see this in the new docklands areas. it just doesnt grab you…
the people around melbounre are on the whole an ok bunch. they dont really differ that much from other cities. theres always idiots, bogans, and sluts walking the streets but hey what can u do? the main issue is the fact that the city itself has no real substance to it.
You have all raised some very great points. Because of this, I feel its a must that I write another article on this subject but at a deeper level.
yes yes YES my friends, you have realised how melbourne is utterly deserving of your hatred and loathing forevermore.
i have started a blog so we can gather and combat melbournians and their insidious, viperish natures:
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please, join me in my crusade to rid this world of the melbourne smug.
Admin note: Fair enough you want a blog, but dont bother starting one and basing it off a blog entry of mine
What exaggerated, unfounded, unevidenced, lame rubbish. Every city has something unique to offer, if you’re too dumb or unadventurous to discover it then that’s your problem, but don’t mouth off like a deranged bogan about a city you clearly know nothing about!
I moved out of melbourne after living there as a kid … i find melbourne people too pretentious these days and up themselves. You know what? sydney isnt that bad after all ive been living here since September 08 and OMG this place is huge, sydney may not have the trams but it sure has a party atmosphere feel to it.
Many melburnians say that sydney sucks, sydney is too dangerous!! wtf??? melbourne shares the crime these days so dont bag out sydney.
alot of my friends have moved up here and they cant get enough this place … sydney may not have the aus open, f1 grand prix, melb cup but that only happens once a year and who fricking cares anyways.
sydney has little cafes and shops tucked away and its quite cute just like melb. sydneysiders arent rude at all and ive caught public transport speaking to strangers and it was great.
melb has definitely taken the rudeness away from sydney and made it their own.
As a resident of Melbourne for 27 years (minus a couple that i was travelling), it pleases me no end to be moving to Sydney next month. Whatever it had – and it did used to have great parts – is now gone. The geniunely interesting parts of the city like brunswick st Fitzroy, most of Prahran etc have now been overrun with accountant nerds trying to be alternative and pricing the nice parts completely out of reach of the ordinary, and changing their character in the process. I understand this happens in every city but there doesn’t seem to be any new up and coming areas to take their place. Bring on the beaches, the international melting pot and energy of Sydney
go to tokyo, come back to melbourne. you will lol at everything u see here. melbourne is ridiculously shit.
Yeah I live in Melbourne and Im over it, i dont like the people here, they are all the social 9-5 mon to fri rental property types who are so driven to succeed in their “careers” and consider themselves to be so in a another class i want to live melbourne im so sick of it. Melb people have become so rude over the last 9 years once they were nice but now this place has gone to the dogs i hate it
Melburnians are too obsessed with their looks and how better they are from everybody else. I was born and raised in melb but decided to explore oz for the heck of it.
I went to sydney and absolutely loved the place, met so many nice people and sydney has proper beaches to go surfing too and its not too far away at all to tell you the truth.
love catching the ferries and it gives you a goodlook of the harbour and surroundings. sydney chicks are quite hot and easier to talk too compared to melb chicks.
Melb is exagerated in so many ways and its turning out to be a real shithole.
Moving to sydney in 2mths time and i cant wait.
sydney maybe a blonde with goodlooks but she’s a party animal but melb is a brunette with an arrogant and pretentious attitude.
This is thread is displaying the biggest problem with most of the Western world: Ignorance. All of the things said here is just complete bullshit. Every city in Australia has its flaws and upsides. I’m from Melbourne and I’m not pretentious.
Please don’t resort to mass/gross generalization, it is the reason for so many problems that are just stupid.
I love both Sydney and Melbourne! Everyone get over yourselves…
I was born in Melbourne. i grew up in Sydney for 21 years and moved to Melbourne and lived there for 13 years. I will consider myself and expert in both cities. And yes Melbourne SUCKS.
Yes both Sydney and Melb have their pluses and minuses but Melbourne has way too many negatives compared to Sydney.
And this rivalry between Melb and Sydney was started by Melb due to their insecurities and patriotism towards their own. Simple as that – my god I know a true blue melbournite and she loves Sydney more than Melb.
Too many things to say here why I hate Melb but some reasons have been touched by those who posted already.
I found Melbourne 13 years ago friendlier than Sydney but that in itself is misleading. Depends on who you talk to and what areas – however Melbourne’s rudeness has increased and they have BAD driving habits too like running red lights. Traffic in Melburne is NOW just as bad as Sydney as well. Let Melbourne have a bigger population than Sydney – Melb won’t be able to handle it. I laugh in their face.
I will be moving to Sydney and the sooner the better.
yeah I totally agree with the sentiments expressed here. I’m from England, I spent 1.5 years in Melbourne wrestling with that pissy small minded, conservative hole. The straight, long boring streets, the oppressively dry climate, and yes the people really do screw you over there. I had near 40 jobs, getting taken of the rosta for no reason, I was, I am a great worker, but its just that Melburnians are xenophobic and can’t handle it if you’re different, whilst they think of themselves as being so alternative and arty, its all about look in Melbourne, and belonging to one of the sub cultures. But if you actually have a brain and real ideas, then they feel threatened.
I live in Sydney now, and boy is it so much better. The pubs are full of lively conversation, the streets are interesting, beautiful , people dance at gigs (Melbourne is the stiffest place on the planet, though it thinks it has this great music scene, most of the artists are tiresome country rock) and the climate completely shits on Melbourne.
The funny thing is ask someone from Sydney what they think of Melbourne and they’ll be like, ‘I love Melbourne, its really arty isn’t it?’ or they wont have an opinion, conversely Melbournions slag off Sydney at any opportunity, believing it to be totally vacuous and this often without ever really coming here!!
Melbourne was built on a swamp, it was over planned, which kills the vibe, it feels dead, I’m so happy to be out of it and to be back in a proper city where things have substance.
I was brought up in the inner city, St kilda Primary, Camberwell, Prahran and Brighton than onto RMIT. All the places Mebournians rave about! Melbourne has changed because people from the suburbs that were bought up with “Neighbours”, “home and away” are now bringing their pre-conceived ideas to what melbourne should be about. Don’t get me wrong! I have spent time in New York, Argentina, London, Hong Kong, Spain…and not every city is the same. There was one place I longed for in all the times I was abroad and that was Melbourne! But hey, on returning Melbourne has turned into a pretentious, lack lustre despot where every business wants to emulate Paris,London.New York, Barcelona and they never will, they don’t have the history, nor understanding. Melbourne was great when it stood on its own, proud of its multi-culturism . Now its obvious envy and competiivness with no-one but itself- has bought on a new GREEDY childish/ busineess coffee and fashion breeding metropolis. I am shamedly proud to say I save my money not to buy house here, but to buy a retreat on the shores of the Mediteraenean.
Good luck to you fools. I am glad that embicile Ho who started this insecurity is out and hopefully long gone! Melbourne should remain Melbourne in all its secrecy and the suburbs should have the energy and space for people, so that they can stay in their space without paying insurmountable rent/taxi fares to bother us – the city inner rats.
Couldn’t agree more with this thread. Melbourne is one of the most overrated pieces of shit in the country. Worlds most liveable city – fuckn bollocks. Polluted, full of fuckn ethnic gettos, the fuckn joint should be bombed. I am scared to walk the streets or ride public transport at night. The traffic shits me to tears, all those fuckn wanks in their BMW’s and toorak tractos cant fuckn drive for shit. They cant even think of anything original, southbank, the big wheel, docklands – need I say more. Give me perth, adelaide, sydney, brisbane or a regional city anyday. I have worked in the city and its full of snobbish, pretentious, dishonet, selfish wanks in suits with their fuckn own agenda.
Ive recently traveled to melb for work and stayed there for about 2yrs, all i hear from so many people is “melb is so much better than any other city in oz” blah blah blah blah and the constant slagging towards sydneysiders.
no wonder melb lost its status as a capital city in the early 90′s because your nothing but a bunch of total wankers. Melb is not really the most livable city in the world after all.
1) you have earthquakes 2) you have bushfires 3) you dont have proper summer and if the sun did come out it’ll burn you alive
your “SO” called ferris wheel is non functional for at least another 5mths time bahahahaha what a joke 9) melb calls itself a european city that they copy vienna and paris because you cant establish your own identity.
4) public transport cancellations left, right and centre 5) your weather is so unpredictable that it cant make up its mind
6) people are so insecure to how they look and dress 7) the docklands are a failure from the beginning, at least sydney got darling harbour right from the beginning
get over yourself melbourne you aint all that.
….Those of you who dislike Melbourne so much should get out of the suburbs. Suburbia is the same globally, equally afronting. Also, one should not judge a city on a few personal experiences. If i did the same, i would hate not only Melbourne but the whole globe. Take my advice.
Melbourne is full of posers and pretentious boring morons who claim to be “artists” of some kind. We don’t have any good beaches close by and the weather is horrible.
On the upside we have some good value restaurants and cafes and the museums and galleries have very good exhibitions sometimes… The “urban culture” like many developed cities around the world can be pretty shallow and soulless nowadays, but that’s a problem many cities are facing right now not just Melbourne. It will come back though, I hope.
I used to love Melbourne but over the past 4 years it has lost it soul – I think I might move to tassie
I live in Melbourne and don’t have any real problem with the city itself. It’s mainly the people i have an issue with. People here are vacuous and superficial. It’s a huge effort to talk to anyone in a bar. People will act standoffish because it’s not cool to be friendly or show any personality. It’s really hard to find common ground with many people here because of how shallow and image obsessed they are. On the other hand i’ve spent time in Sydney and everyone there seems to be great and so much easier to get on with. Fuck Melbourne, you are all a bunch of CUNCE.
Barack is right – most of the negative things in Melbourne start in the suburbs, and suburbia is everywhere. A lot of people who cause trouble are from the suburbs. In that respect Melbournians are like posers – most people don’t actually live in the city or anywhere near it. They just like to think they are cosmopolitan as others have pointed out. I avoid the city whenever I can. The last time I went into the city I only stayed for 2 hours. There is nothing to do there that’s actually worthwhile. Once you turn 18 you hit all the night spots and bars and then you get over it. Establishing that Melbourne the city – and some of the people – are boring is not to say that the people and culture is fundamentally bad. It’s just like people say – it’s all heading in the wrong direction.
I agree with a lot of comments here. Melbourne is shallow, the people are cliquey and the nightlife sucks because of it. People are not friendly in the least and overall the city is boring.
I only hope Brisbane avoids the insecurity that plagues Melbourne. Sydney and Brisbane are much nicer places to live
Good to see I’m not the only one who isn’t all that thrilled with Melb. I have tried so hard to adjust to this city but still can’t seem to work it out. I’ve lived here 9 years now and am wondering whether I will last another 9. Lived in Sydney for 7 years and it was a blast. The attitudes of people was a lot more positive than Melb. I met so many nice people everywhere, from neighbours, to workplaces to people on the bus. Nobody seems to want to talk here. Its so inward and everybody is so obsessed with what they have and how much they earn, where they live, what schools their kids go to. They are the biggest bunch of users, its all about them, stuff everybody else. It makes me sick.
@Michio Koku:
You say that you are Vietnamese, then declare that Melbourne is ‘dirty’ and ‘stinky’? That’s rich. Can you please tell me of one place in Vietnam that is cleaner and more civilised than Melbourne? And you hate white people? You racist bigot. Why don’t you move back home if it’s so much better.
Melburnians have to rate as the most cold and unfriendly and in the country. This may be because their totally unappealling,dull and depressing city and the horrid weather.
I made the biggest mistake of my life moving to Melbourne from Perth,where people are friendly, gets real summers and has real beaches.
When summer finally arrives in Melbourne – in February, it is too hot,dry and windy. Where is there to go?one of the disguting “bayside” beaches?
Melbourne skies are nearly always grey and overcast.
None of the suburbs have any appeal.
The river resembles a dirty overflowing sewer drain.
Every other dour face you see is ethnic in a city that is cold,bleak and inhospitable.
I live only for the day I finally leave this depressing shit hole.
Melbourne is a toilet.
I lived and grew up in melbourne. The sky is always a depressing nuetral grey full of pollution, the peop,e are pretencsious stuck up ASSHOLE FUCKHEAD SNOBS…. I tried to make friends there and people always judged solely on appearences. I lived in filthy scum slum like conditions in the cbd area and hated everyday there, especially the endless line of cattle flocking the streets without even thinking about how lucky they are to be alive amongst the foggy pollution smuthered city… There is nothing to do besides going to bars and clubbing which is also full of mindless drones or in my opinion sub-humans. I had NO friends in melbourne none at all. I was born in Dandenong lived there till I was 10 and have nothing but bad memories at a young age, I left when I was 19 and never looked back. I lived on the gold coast which wasn’t much different people wise but there where alot more friendlier people and a much nicer cleaner city, I’m living in perth now and it is by far the best place I’ve ever lived so far. Maybe I had bad experiences in melbourne, maybe not but in my opinion I hate all the fucken pretenscious shit heads there they can all eat my shit
One more thing related to my last comment… Anyone that claims to like Melbourne have serious mental issues maybe they take too much ass juice cumm in their own asses smug pieces of shit…… Seriously I LIVED there for most of my life and hated it whoever made this site I commend you!
Hey guys, I fell in love with Melbourne in the late 90s so much that I moved from Brisbane. Back then it had all the things Brisbane didn’t have – culture, funky lanes, great old buildings many turned into apartments and new developments with style. It was a city that had gone from desperate to a new hope.
But just before the Commonwealth Games the government here decided that the great city wasn’t good enough to show the world and set about ruining it. They started a rat race – building freeways, neglecting the trams and trains causing overcrowding everywhere. Shitbox apartment buildings went up all over the place. Pretty soon all the places that were unique about Melbourne were built out or neglected. Fed Square was a big disappointment and now the ‘G – so called spiritual icon – looks like just another big soulless modern stadium. Then they started demolishing more heritage and turning the city into another suburb … to the point where some Melburnians talked about demolishing Flinders Street Station. The people (mostly Sydneysiders escaping the same issues) started getting ruder, then arrogant, then agressive, and finally just plain violent, intolerant and scary.
I’ve discovered that Melburnians are a paradox. One one hand they think the sun shines out of their arse but at the same time they lack any sort of sense of identity or civic pride. They just don’t have any clue about what is good or bad about their city. It is a sad fact that Docklands represents the sort of soulless clueless tacky city that Melburnians aspire to.
I’ve finally convinced myself that Melbourne is no longer the place I fell in love with and I will be leaving at the first opportunity.
I been in melbourne for a little over a year and a half now, I’ve stayed to be with my boyfriend (who loves this place for some reason?) even though my first impressions of it were a dirty ugly city with the worst weather ever.
I have to admit it did grow on me after awhile. I loved the little bars in fitzroy and collingwood and the fact that you didn’t need to dress up to the nines to get into bars/clubs. I thought the people were far less snobby than Sydney,(although all my friends here are not orginally from Melbourne) and I always had a great time going out.
Unfortunately that’s where it ends for me- Melbourne’s a great place to go out and get wasted, which is why so many Sydney siders only come for the weekend.
It’s a polluted, ugly, shithole. I know it seems to have more going on culturally than Sydney (as there is basically only beach culture in Sydney) it has lots of cool art galleries and markets but I can not get over the barreness of this place it is completely desolate. I miss the trees, the beach and not hearing junkies yelling out my window, I get so depressed living here. I can totally relate to some of the comments about how agro people get if you accidently glance at them, I nearly got beat up for smiling at someone when I needed to get past them on the street when I first came here.
I hate it here, eveyones ugly
10 years ago had moved lived in Melbourne from inland country town for one year and i always feel strange when go out shopping or into City because very hard to make friends and people don’t care about anyone and watch who is behind you. One time i ride my bike to the park and there was stupid young youth following me and i just don’t take any notice and they fuck off. Whats wrong with youths in Melbourne who wants to pick on any one for. And the rent is too expensive and there is nothing to do in the City. So I had moved out back in the country town and happy with friendly people and i had visit Brisbane, Gold Coast, Sydney are great people and safe.
Last week I went back to strange feeling Melbourne and its still the same nothing is changed and there too many low class people and more stupid youths everywhere than 10 years ago. Its the matter of growing up youth people to act better its not, they going into crimes don’t care no matter what culture u are.
wow….
Melbourne has the football code, the dining, the art,the culture, the fashion… sounds like the green eyed monster is roaring in the other states.
sounds like there’s some here that may not be smart enough to understand a mature city like melbourne.
A pity really as it’s the city the other Australian cities try to be like.
yay, i am happy to find a forum online about melbourne!.
i am soon about to leave it. i have lived in cities in the uk and the usa and in 2 other australian cities. melbourne is by far the snobbiest, most inward-looking & self important place of them all.
i spent 6 years too long in this dismal cold town full of derivative so called “subcultures” pilfered from the great cities of the world where the real subcultures grew.
many of the people born or assimilated there think its marvellous but they cant handle outsiders and they cant handle travelling much as it reminds them that they are rather deluded about how great they think their city is.
the winters are horrendous – long and grey and dismal. i think this affects the mentality of the natives who believe that where to buy one’s local coffee and organic bread, what op shop attire is cool & which hip venue is currently best to be seen at is of supreme importance and anyone else not agreeing or conforming can just piss off.
i personally think the attitude problems come from insecurity about its identity – ie. it doesnt really have one and no-one has the courage to strive to be different. thus we see the forming of many groups or cliques where people think and say the same things as eachother whilst shutting out the world at large.
some people have the nerve to tell me “its just so european”. well it aint, like many people ive been all over europe my dears and it cant compare to the real rich cultures there. real europe here i come.