Should you live in Melbourne? Our HONEST thoughts

Melbourne seems to be the only Aus city without extreme oppressive weather for months on end. Mild summer, almost no humidity and mild winter with half the rain of Sydney and Brisbane.

In time you will come to appreciate the Melbourne Cool Change. Better than 20 consecutive days over 35 in other cties.

Once, one get used to and prepare for the change of weather in a day. Melbourne indeed is the world most live able city. I am biased of course, I am Chinese Malaysian, have lived in the UK, Malaysia and Singapore. Nothing beats Melbourne. And I have lived in Melbourne since 1989. Had a chance to move to Sydney to work there in 2015 when the company I worked for moved there. But after a week living in Sydney, I decided not to move to Sydney and took my separation package from the company. The rest is history. Still call Melbourne home, despite the increasing traffic which can be a pain at times. :)

Melbourne is definitely the friendliest city in Australia. I have met lifelong friends in Melbourne just visiting a bar on work trips there. Genuinely lovely people

Having lived in Melbourne all of my 70+ years and having family overseas, I have travelled a bit, and think Melbourne feels quite European in that we have preservation orders on a fair bit of the early architecture. It also has a similar weather experience to the UK and Europe minus the snow. Summer feels like a good day in Spain or Italy and so on with good days in the other Seasons to parts of Europe. We just shrug our shoulders when it rains and say “give it an hour or two and the sun will be shining”. The multi culture of Melbourne has been a thing since the Gold Rush days of the 1800’s and as we never had a penal colony in Victoria, we tend not to worry about where a person came from or why they came here. Accepting and welcoming is probably a hallmark of being a Melbournian but your always going to find the odd outliers unfortunately. My recommendation to newbies to Melbourne is to download the PTV App to plan your public transport journeys.

Beautiful edit, nice music and wondefful drone shots! Thank you for your playful content!❤❤❤

As someone who grew up and has mostly lived in Melbourne over 50 years this is pretty spot on. There are pockets of natural beauty close to Melbourne though. Try the Yarra around abbotsford or heidelberg. As for the traffic there are some areas that we avoid taking our car if at all possible and the CBD is one of them. Along with very busy roads shared with trams like Burke Rd or Chapel St 😂. You just have to learn the alternatives. 👍

❤ Your welcome guys. Glad you’re enjoying your stay. Hook turns would be a bit stressful in a camper van! Head out to the Mornington Peninsula for a couple of days. Lunch at the Portsea pub is a must! ❤

Love your videos, i actually am originally from Melbourne, but I’ve lived abroad for quite some years now. I think you pretty much explained Melbourne in a nutshell. Unfortunately, to access our rainforests and beaches, a car is needed, but there are buses from Southern Cross that also go almost anywhere outside of Melbourne, if you can be be bothered. The housing situation in Melbourne is absurd, availability is below 1%, so that saids enough.

Brilliant video! Hope you are having an amazing time 🎉❤

Thanks for the video . Making me feel more comfortable to move there soon . The Spanian posted video of the hoods in melbourne made me so worry . I travelled to Dandenong to check out works and youre spot on the cafe and restaurants

We loved our (short!) time in Melbourne but would love to be there for longer. Melbourne definitely has an amazing vibe to it. After coming from NZ we noticed the amazing architecture very quickly! Glad you're enjoying your time there ☺

Love the video guys ♥️ Wish we had longer in Melbourne to see more if it, we’ll just have to come back!

Hook turns are designed to get cars off the middle so they do not block the trams. They are a sensible and effective solution.

I'm from israel but I lived in London and New York and New zealand But I been living here in Melbourne for 10 years now and I call Melbourne my home

Hi Guys, I've lived a bit over an hour south of Melbourne (Mount Martha / Mornington Peninsula) for 90% of my life. Melbourne is a great place to visit on occasion however it's a bit far to get to from here. I meet up there with some old workmates every 3-4 months, we walk around to all the different bars etc and make a bit of a night of it. Last time I got a taxi home and it cost me $180. You're right about needing to travel to get to any destinations, however I feel that's typical of Australia. I like to 4x4 in the mountains so it can take anywhere from 2-6hrs depending on where I want to go. I do like the Peninsula however, it's a great place to jump on the motorbike and cruise around.

The 'old crazy architecture building' that H&M is located within is the old Melbourne GPO.

Glad you enjoy our beautiful city , 10 pound pom 1965 from Liverpool

Going next year to join my daughter. The weather is actually a Pro for me. I find the unpredictable weather interesting. Melbourne CBD is the best in the World.

Sunday morning. Drinking my coffee from Le Cafe Flo and there it is on the screen. Like it.