Thanks for sticking up for South Australia and in particular Adelaide. It’s my home town and I wouldn’t want to be anywhere else. Named the most liveable city in Australia in 2021 and the fourth most liveable city in the world. And there are lots of reasons why people from the eastern states are moving here in record numbers
Yes, Tassie and Adelaide were always considered the poor relations..not any more, we are having a real purple patch so to speak. Adelaide is beautiful, we visit often and honestly the people are the friendliest we've come across...and I'm from Tassie so that's saying something! Also the wildlife on your doorstep 😍 it's incredible, right in the city and you will still get it all, thanks to the wonderful trees everywhere and the commitment to tree coverage 🌳
@Natalie Keane As an Adelaidean, I totally agree. Adelaide is the only capital city in the world that is surrounded by parklands on all sides. Have visited Tassie on a few occasions and loved the landscape and the history.
@@shaz464 well I can certainly believe it. My son lives in the foothills and it's gorgeous! He hikes straight from his house all around his local area! Also, we have friends from England/Australia that have lived in Perth for years and years, they have recently been travelling all around Oz and hands down their fave spots are Adelaide and Tassie! 😃 in fact so much so that within a year they've been back to both these states to bring family from the UK!! Yes, Tasmania is beautiful everywhere, I've been hearing that a lot lately. Everywhere you drive it's stunning, we Tasmanians take it for granted though. 🤗
My daughter lived in Adelaide for a year and absolutely loved it, I’m in Melbourne and said I’d love atmosphere of Adelaide. My son is in Adelaide now on holiday, he said it’s more peaceful, suburbs atmosphere is more like Vic country towns. He loves it too. But with 2 daughters in Melbourne and my son coming home. I’d miss my 30 and 40 year old babies and my grandchildren lol 😊
I think its bad to try to rate best to worst states in Australia. They are all actually very individually different in their own way. It depends on the person living there and what their preferences are. I know many in all the different states and territories and most of them absolutely love where they are and always say they wouldn't ever live in any other state. The one I know that lives in Canberra loves the icy colder climate and thrives there. It isn't for me, but they absolutely love it.
The only thing I have against Adelaide is that it's a bugger to navigate. Road signs seems to not be South Australia's strong suit. I know Sydney and Melbourne crap on it from a great height, but they do the same to Perth, my home city
Remember that Adelaide is an entirely planned city. All the roads are straight so you tend to only need to move in the direction you want to go. The maps of the Paris underground are laid out in a grid pattern on the walls of the station which made them easy for me to follow because they are geometrically oriented.
I love living in Perth but because of the distance from everywhere, it costs us a lot of money to travel anywhere on holidays. Being isolated was a good thing during the pandemic, though.
Adelaide is boring??? Not so... do you recall he said that it's the 'Festival State'? That's because we have 11 major arts and cultural festivals throughout the year that attract people from across the globe. We have the most festivals in the southern hemisphere. Whoever made this list is a complete tool.
The preoccupation with RANKING only means that something ranks first and something HAS to rank last. The reality is far more complex and these states and territories are all “amaaaaazink” for different reasons. No American opinion required 🤣🤣🤣🇦🇺🐨🦘
As a Queenslander ranked at number 6, I wonder why we have the highest rate of interstate migration. To clarify, year on year for at least 5 years, Queensland has had more people move from other states than any other state. To be honest, I would be happy if you all stayed in your "better states" Grumble grumble rabble rabble rabble
Tasmania is closest to the UK in terms of weather, and the air is so clean there because it comes straight up from the Antarctic. It's by far the greenest (lush grass and trees) state in Australia. Melbourne has some great schools, and if you can get somewhere close to public transport, kids can basically ferry themselves around for secondary school. (years 7 to 12)
It's more than "Antarctic air"! It's clean, half the island is protected fauna! There are no pesticides or aerosols, the food is naturally grown! People with asthma and lung disease find they can soon climb mountains there! Etc! 🧐 There are so many drugs, loud protests, and race riots in Melbourne I wouldn't have children there! 🤨
Canberra is a great place to live for families and it’s population is 500k. Has the best amenities and everything is within a 30 minute drive with lost of parks and bike tracks and playgrounds everywhere Great place for little kids. Also has a lot of festivals. Art centres and concerts. Feels like a rural town but has all services. Also it’s the best wages in the country
i live in victoria and have spent time in nsw, qld, sa, act and tas, but not wa or nt as yet. i think this is a pretty fair ranking based on the things he discussed (affordability, safety, things to do, etc.). but it does come down to your own personality and lifestyle. one person's heaven is another's hell!
@@divid3d yeah that other one is my main account, this is my "BAD" account lol I am a pretty big fan of reactors and Mat came across my feed a couple of months ago with his Farnsey reaction.
You said almost exactly my line of reasoning. I've lived in many of the states and enjoyed them all. I live in Qld now but I'll stick up for the other states when saying you cant base what the whole state is like, affordability etc, on just their capital cities. To me it's like having a favourite colour or a favourite meal it's all according to your own tastes.
I live in Adelaide, and I would never live in a bigger city. There is plenty to do here, if you know where to look, and there are so many beautiful places to visit without having to drive far.
Born West Aussie here. WA has been improving steadily for the past 30yrs, improved public transport, tourist friendly infrastructures added at numerous tourist attractions all over the state, making so many more sites accessible and family friendly, with treetop suspension bridges, bridges over hanging magnificent gorges at the Murchison (Kalbarri) with the Pink Lakes. No need to hire a boat to snorkel the Ningaloo reefs at Exmouth n Coral Bay, just step off the beach and you're there already , or get on a charter boat to go swimming with the Whale Sharks. Added toilets up n down the coast with awesome picnic facilities in every town, Swan Valley and Margaret river wine regions (Best in Aus if you ask overseas tourists). Rottnest island with our gorgeous quokka's. Broome to go riding camels along Cable Beach, or go to watch the Stairway to the Moon. Esperance for a replica of Stone Henge, go island hopping the 104 islands off Esperance, and over to Woody Island for the glass bottom boat over the seahorse reefs to visit George the massive 9foot Blue Groper, who lives under the jetty, and comes out to be fed, the rare sea Eagles that fly down onto the cruise boats for the ranger to feed them daily, and Sammy the seal, who's wild but shows up on the back of most local boats begging for a feed lol. Kalgoorlie for the open mine pit, largest in the world. Kings Park that over looks Perth at night. I now live in Mandurah, 1hr sth of Perth, where we have Christmas on the canals, with every house doe up, music playing until 10pm and boat cruises every night - google it to see how beautiful all lit up it is, especially when the local 60 plus dolphins decide to join in and put on a show lol. The beauty here is endless, and I reckon we deserve No1. I think Sydney is overrated, showing its age, badly designed, too crowded, can smell the pollution if no breeze, and you can feel it on your skin, and would have them No7 only above Darwin. All other rankings seemed fair enough to me.
@@patrix5614 and I could've gone on forever lol....The giants on show in Mandurah. Eating cherabins fresh outta the creeks up in Derby. Argyle dam. The Bungle Bungles. Karijini. Cape Le Grande national park. The Mammoth, Lake and Jewel caves near Busselton. The horizontal falls up in the Kimberley. Serpentine falls. Shark Bay with Monkey Mia, Eagle bluff, steep point and Dirk Hartog Island. Diving and deep sea fishing off the Montibello islands - can I stop now ? 😂
Haha, we often visit the canals in Yunderup and have been over Chriatmas a couple of times. My husbands family live in WA (as did we for a short while) so we can attest to the lights on the houses!
Sorry but I just hate Yanks explaining their bs opinions on Oz. Typical US capitalist concerns being how much is the average per capita income. They never mention quality of life but the number of bloody theme parks as a big plus. Uninhabitable to the Yank, is natural wilderness to me. Give us a break mate.
yep, not a fan of outsiders "informing" people of what it's like. I mean what if I made a video like the one he is watching about the US. "Don't go near schools in this state as you might get shot as a bystander and then good luck paying your medical bills afterwards, bankrupt or dead or both"... I would get crucified by the dumb yanks.
I'm from Tasmania and it gets hot there. Most states have runs of 5/6 days or more in a row of extreme heat while Tasmania usually has around 3/4 extreme days in a row.
I personally think Tasmania is the best, despite the fact that I was born and have lived in NSW my entire life. I've seen a lot of other places in Australia, and Tasmania is one of the most gorgeous and has some of the best food I have ever tried. If you were to go anywhere in Australia on holiday, it's the place to be. It's capital, Hobart, is stunning in terms of looks, with a lot of greenery and a wonderfully clean harbour. The market place there is one of the best I've seen, it has so many beautiful mountains, even one right next to the city that I 100% recommend going up. Their desserts, especially ones containing cream are honestly divine, and their sites and wildlife are some of the most stunning. Their history is extremely sad but interesting. The only downside is possibly the coldness, but to me personally, I love the cold, and it's probably why I'm so attracted to the place.
If you have been to Melbourne and loved it before you had kids then Adelaide is the place for you - it's very family-friendly and isn't as crowded as Melbourne. More relaxed with everything so close by and so easy to get around - everything is only 20 mins away! You would also be centrally located to everywhere else in Australia! Also, we get 4 fabulous seasons - Feb & March being the best weather times with festivals for the full 2 months! Come and visit - you'll love it!
I'm from Adelaide shhhhh don't tell anyone and he didn't tell you where in the middle of all the states closest to Western Australia and 1 hr flight to Melbourne then straight across to Sydney Queensland up to Darwin
West Aussie born and bred here, honestly not a surprise to me at all we came first. Despite a low population we punch well above our weight in terms of culture, sports, and science. We also have vast and varied landscapes, amazing natural wonders, world leading wineries, world class surf breaks, unique flora and fauna not found anywhere else, and some of the most recognised beautiful beaches in Australia. Perth is often counted as both the most laid-back city in Australia and comes with the greatest number of sunny days of any capital. There is also a rich and vibrant history here, and an insane amount of natural wealth; WA accounts for more than 40% of all Australian exports, which is insane when you consider we have only 11% of Australia's Population.
-That's only exports in volume, not value.- Was meant to say the mining industry Australia wide only makes up 5.8% of the Australian economy...that includes taxes and export revenue.
Proud West Aussie here and couldn’t have said it better myself. We have it all over here, we are the best kept secret in the world and I wouldn’t live anywhere else. By the way Iron Ore is Australia’s biggest export in monetary terms. If Australia didn’t have Western Australia’s exports we would be a 3rd world country. It’s time the rest of Australia realised this.
@@Westcoasteagles2018 Mining is only 7th on the list in the industries that make the most revenue in Australia's economy. Mining (Australia wide) only accounts for 5.8% 9f GDP.
@@ChannelReuploads9451 According to the BOM, Hobart's average rainfall is 612.8 mm. 2021 was out of the box with double that amount, but it wasn't the norm.
Adelaide has beautiful beaches that are often not crowded, wineries from Barossa in the north to way down to the Coonawarra in the south, beautiful Adelaide hills which are glorious in their autumn colours atm. Cheaper living and a great place to bring up children. I've lived here since 1979 and wouldn't live anywhere else. I could go on but this American voice over is verysuperficial.
I love a lot of places in Australia. I live in Brisbane, Queensland and can’t believe it came in at 6th. The proof that this is wrong is the number of people who move from other states to Queensland. Low income is not as obvious as it made out (considering there isn’t much variation between states in median income).
I think the rankings are pretty good. As a North west WA resident, I believe that WA should be No. 1 as it has such diversity in its geography, climate and culture.
Matt The majority of our aboriginal people are are decent folk. Sadly there is an element of those who are not so nice. It will be only part of the reason for the crime rate in Darwin. Currently the authorities, towns people, councils etc are at a total loss because of mainly young aboriginals running amok in Alice Springs. (Second biggest city in Northern Territory) most of this problem is the easy access to alcohol in this area. A similar problem eventuated recently in the far north Queensland city of Townsville for the same reasons.
Fiji, Bali, Malaysia, Thailand are where we all go because it’s cheaper than holidaying in Australia. You also get that Asian hospitality and food!! I love swimming in the ocean in Thailand as the water is warm. Ocean water is cold here.
I once lived in Bangkok for nearly 3 years. I remember visiting Phuket and thinking that the ocean there was like swimming in mother-of-pearl! (Greetings from another diehard JF fan.😊)
I live in perth but have lived all over the nation, since I work federally. Perth is really just an all-round great place. And also from what my little brother (army guy) says, being stationed at Campbell Barracks is his favourite place (idk why lmao). Every state and city is great in Australia, but yeah, I agree that Perth is the best for a person who isn't a millionaire. We also have some great universities here like UWA, ECU, and Notre Dame.
Looks VERY arbitrary to me. I will not dispute that some areas have it over others in specific ways, but generally it is very much an 'apples and pears' situation.
I lived in Rockhampton, Queensland, for most of my life (actually some footage was in the video). It's a town of 90k people, and rather relaxed. I moved to Adelaide about 4 years ago, and I still get that small town feel, but with big city excitements, with sporting events, concerts, more work, etc. I think Adelaide would be Australia's best city for living. Literally 15 minutes from the city and you're in country wine regions, a couple of hours north you're in beautiful farm land, or beach side towns.
I don't know what you do for a living Matt but, have a look at Newcastle. It has great everything e.g. beaches, wineries, hospitals, education plus e'thing is such a short drive away. Sydney ( if you wanted to go ) is only 1 1/2 hours down the track. You could do a LOT worse mate.
Not to mention the best and largest salt water lake in the southern hemisphere being Lake Macquarie adjoining Newcastle so you can choose beach or lake... great for boating.
Been to every State and lived in Several. Originally from N.T, I settled in S.A. after visiting all. If I need busy I can hop on a plane for a holiday and be in a busy overrated city within hours.....👍 S.A
Western Australia has literally everything that all the other states have but all rolled into one place. From scenery to weather, beaches, leisure activities, user friendly cities, great transport, plenty of nightlife, great restaurants, road systems, affordable housing, great job opportunities, great schools and hospitals, lots of smaller towns and rural communities, if you're not into city life Only downside is we get left off a lot of concert tours due to distance.
I was born and raised in NSW. Worked in Sydney when in my teens, lived in the Western suburbs and loved it. Also raised my kids in Country NSW in the Central West. Loved it there and kids had so much more freedom because it was a small country town and everyone looked out for each other. Moved to WA and kids spent high school years in the Avon Valley - absolutely beautiful, but for work, not the greatest. Now living 5 hrs North and love it Not crowded but big enough to have shops beaches, sporting facilities, countryside all within a 5 to 10 minute drive. I honestly think it depends on your own needs and personal likes. Every State and every city is going to have those that love it and those that don't
I'm from the Gippsland region of Victoria. It is absolutely a fantastic place to live and raise a family, as long as you can handle frostbite and heatstroke all at once
I've lived in Brisbane, Townsville, Canberra & Melbourne. The first two are humid & laid back. Nearby islands like Magnetic & North Stradbroke are gorgeous getaways for the locals. Canberra is a more career-oriented place. Lovely clean air & lots of sun, but bloody cold for most of the year! Regularly dips to minus 5 deg at night in winter. Great for kids to grow up but can feel a bit constrictive sometimes. Melbourne ... well, you've been here. It's fabulous 😊 It has everything you'd want for a young family. Good schools, parks, shops, cafes. Good job opportunities bc of its size. It's not cheap, though. You just have to be able to afford to rent/buy here!
No surprise to me WA is awesome according to me in my live I have lived i Brisbane Sydney and Melbourne Also 3 years in London. I came back to Perth to raise my family and for a family it has it all! Great schools medical facilities recreational facilities restaurants pubs live music scene beaches and parks jobs and housing What’s not to love 💕 😂❤
I've only been to the NT a couple of times in my life but have described Darwin to friends as being like 'the wild west' and almost like being in another country. It does have a relatively higher indigenous population and is quite isolated from the majority of the national population. It's full of many stunning landscapes.
So how is Darwin like the wild west? Being far away but almost exactly the same as everywhere else in Australia except for size doesn't make it the wild West.
@@andrewsmall6834 Alcohol. I once read Darwins alcohol consumption per capita is almost double the next highest anywhere on the planet. Darwin's climate is something you either love or hate with a passion. I visited once years ago, during the build up. Was the worst humidity I have ever experienced. Hated it.
They say there is so much poverty in QLD because many of the unemployed, or drifters, homeless, surfers, bogans, from all over Australia, move to QLD. Their thinking is, 'if you're going to be poor or homeless, why not do it in a beautiful sunny place'. So they move to QLD.
Lived on the very edge of Sydney, Surry hills. A really bad hailstorm rolled up the coast from the south. 3/4's of the houses across Sydney's southern suburbs had their ceramic tiled roofs destroyed as well as most suffering water inundation due to smashed window's. Thousands of cars were dented beyond repair. I lived on the sunshine coast Queensland, and, regularly got flooded in for a month or so nearly every year. Lost my home in a bushfire when I lived in country N.S.W. I could not live anywhere else except here. Cockatoos and Corella's on the balcony, some time's it's the Kookaburra's. Wallaby's in the front yard. What's not to love?
Definitely arbitrary! The cities are different, it's personal taste and the State Government! Very American! 🧐 Norfolk Island is different, very interesting, check it out! 👍 The NT, not recommended! Adelaide is a really nice place for families, and has a very interesting multi-cultural mix, and the beach! I don't recommend Qld, it's too touristy and surfie dropouts (Florida with Units)! Tasmania is so beautiful, unique and historical, very clean, lots of new development! 👍 (Tasmania is warmer in winter than Canberra!) NSW is massive and has other big cities and beach towns! Newcastle and Wollongong are really worth checking out! I have passed through Canberra to Thredbo for skiing, it does provide space! Melbourne City is chaos, it's too hip for small children! Perth is very class conscious, very dry heat and isolated - rich executives / hard drinking mine workers, there is plenty of parks for children though!? 🤔
It’s incredibly annoying to have Perth described in such derogatory terms, and completely off base. Interestingly your focus on capital cities in some instances, given the assessments were on states, not cities. I’ve travelled to all states & territories, many multiple times. I absolutely love WA, in winter we head up north and in summer we head down south & it has so much beauty & wonder on offer. WA cops a fair bit of rubbish from the ES, but the disdain is not reciprocated. I love what this country has to offer & I love to travel it as much as I can. I’ll always come back west though, because it’s also the gateway to my second favourite holiday destination which is Vietnam Cambodia Laos Thailand Singapore Bali. Not isolated from that perspective at all 😅
I'm West Aussie born in Perth (But also spent my teenage years in a town 5 hours from Perth called Geraldton), It's true some of the best well paid jobs come from mining (and the state is pretty much known for mining, which has a boom and bust cycle too reliant on China sometimes) and we feel like a big "country city" with the lifestyle, but there's also a lot of creative people here (Heath Ledger was born in Perth, Hugh Jackman went to WAAPA, a drama school in Perth) and I think it's good we are trying to diversify the job market here. It's just a struggle because a lot of the creative market and jobs are moved "over east" (Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane) as we call it, and we are trying, but the government has recently approved a movie studio to be built here!
I haven't seen that video before. I found it mostly accurate and I agree with what was said. I was born in Canberra and lived there till my mid 20's then moved to Victoria, spent a few years there. Spent 2 years in Adelaide. Moved to Sydney bought a home on the central coast just south of Newcastle, but worked in Sydney for over 15 years. I then moved to Brisbane and spent a few years there as well. I now live in the gorgeous Northern Rivers region of NSW (just south of the QLD/NSW border). The only cities I've not lived in are Perth and Darwin, but I have spent holiday time there. I did love Perth but it was simply too far away from everything! Hated Darwin because of the weather.. ugh humidity! I have never been to Tasmania/Hobart.
Geelong and the Bellarine Peninsula are worth considering. Geelong has a population of 250,000 and is only a 50 minute drive from Melbourne. You can also catch the ferry from Geelong to Tasmania and it has an airport catering for flights around Australia and overseas. There is also a ferry from Geelong to the centre of Melbourne as well as regular trains. It is also the beginning of the Surf Coast. Houses are cheaper too.
I’m from Perth and so glad I don’t live there anymore. Too isolating and boring. I now live in NSW and love it. Here you can drive to all the other states same day unlike Perth. 20 minutes from beautiful beaches, surrounded by country side and two hrs drive from snow and 30 minutes from wine country where I live.
Newcastle is in the hunter valley, close to Sydney. Has the biggest lake in australia, close to Barrington tops National park , port Stephen’s tourist areas , beaches everywhere and is affordable if you go 30 minutes from the city
If you really want to go somewhere to experience great food, Tasmania should be on the list - Australia has it's spots, like if you want really nice fish the central and south coasts are amazing if you can find restaurants that take in same day catches and serve it up for lunch and dinner (about as fresh as you can get). But, Tasmania is unique, it has rich and fertile soil so fresh produce is usually really high quality, great fisheries and farms (amazing dairy as well, King Island Dairy make some of the best cheese I've ever had). I've lived on the mainland my entire life and even when I was a kid, it was always a thing that if people wanted to go on a scenic but foody holiday, that heading to Tassie was what people would plan for.
All of Australia is pretty much on par. I don’t believe there’s a worst state. It all depends on what you prefer and whether there’s suitable housing to your liking. In Sydney, the CBD isn’t very big compared to the massive suburban sprawl but it’s still very expensive and those with high incomes might choose it to be close to corporate business, but as you spread outwards from the CBD, housing prices are very much dependent on the suburbs you choose, from waterfront million dollar homes to any of the many suburbs where most families reside. Of course, as the months go by, prices and locations can vary, since things are constantly in a state of flux. Canberra is Australia’s capital city and the Territory surrounding it is filled with public servants, politicians, and international embassies. If you work for the Federal government, you would most likely choose to live there, otherwise, it’s a long drive from both Sydney and Melbourne, the nearest major cities.
I can tell ya as a West Aussie who has lived in Perth my whole life, I've never wished to be anywhere else. Also, those of us who live here, when covid hit the world and people were dying and cities were coming to a stand still, the most isolated city in the world is where you want to be. Cutting off from the rest of the world and staying safe was damn easy in comparison to other major cities in the world and even in the rest of Australia. Not to say there weren't hiccups like most other places in the world in finding what worked and what didn't, but safety wise, I was damned happy and counted myself lucky to be exactly where I was when the nasty bug finally found our shores.
I've lived in several countries in 3 continents growing up before moving to West. Aust. and then Sth Aust. I chose to go to uni in Melbourne but yeah, same as with you, the place instantly resonated with my personality and I fell in love with it. 100 years later and now almost an empty-nester, I still love it.
I live in Perth western Australia and u are correct. It has wide open spaces. Housing is very affordable and most are double brick homes. BEAUTIFUL Beaches. Easy access to the city not the long delays like Melbourne and Sydney. WA is the best
I live in a small town called Scone. 2 hours inland from Newcastle in NSW. Population of 6k. I prefer this then a city. But still expensive to live in a tiny town too 🙃
Canberra has lots of family facilities, good schools, and nice suburbs. However, contrary to what's been promoted here, there is lots of good nightlife here, restaurants, festivals, and low crime rate!!
DON’T ASK AUSSIES. We are extremely patriotic about our beautiful country, emphasised by the fabulous seekers song, “I am Australian,”along with the “Qantas, I still call Australia home,” fantastic advertisement. However that’s not where our patriotism ends. Ask the majority of Sydneysiders which is the best state and they’re likely to say New South Wales, (and Melbourne sucks.) ask Melburnians and it’s Victoria. (and Sydney sucks) Adelaide people won’t give you two bob, (20c) for Sydney, Melbourne, or anywhere else, and Perth people will pump their chests up and thoroughly agree with the video. You’ll get the, “I lived in Melbourne and now I love Sydney,” or the, “I lived in Sydney but now I love Melbourne,” enthusiasts. There are many people who love their home state, particularly those brought up in an area from childhood. Many of those will eagerly tell you the faults of other cities/states. I’m no different. I’m born and bred in Melbourne. Can I tell you anything about the place that is NOT my biased opinion? Yes I can. A worldwide group taking lots of different lifestyle features into consideration, voted Melbourne, “The worlds most livable city, six years in a row.” My obligatory dig at Sydney is that it is too fast paced and is somewhat along the lines of big brash American cities, and has only one worthwhile feature which is, The Sydney Swans. (AFL) (coz they used to be South Melbourne.) Unaffected by patriotism, you can study the whole place and work out which city/state you like best. 😹🇦🇺🦘🦢🦢🦢
I think in some ways all states offer a certain advantage, depending on what you want at the current stage of your life. I have travelled to every state, but I am born and bred from Adelaide, South Australia. If you want to raise a family, be able to afford raising a family, holiday to some of the most peaceful and serene locations as a family or..a cheeky getaway as a couple 😉🤭 SA has it covered. Not to mention beautiful Kangaroo Island is only a short trip away 🛫🛬. Queensland and Tassie are beautiful too, but NSW is the 'holiday destination', lived in Newcastle for six years 😊
I camped in the Adelaide showground 2 km from the centre of town. On Sunday, I could not find a cafe to buy a coffee, a newsagent to buy a paper, nothing was open except those who thought it fair, on account of them being the only shop in town to charge $6 for a coffee and $12 for an egg and bacon roll.
If you are coming from the UK, Europe, Africa or Asia, Perth and its South West are a great place to visit , if you have a lot of time on your travels add in the North West of Western Australia, it is a large state and needs the time, but in the north west it is the distance between places that will get you. Melbourne is nice and fairly easy to get around city, the countryside outside the city is beautiful, the east coast of Australia has the most cities and places to see, so with in the same area of Western Australia you have four major cities. The east coast has the most to offer, but as they say, the simple thing in life are often the best, so come and see the west coast. If you like the hustle and bustle of large cities then Perth is not for you, if you like to relax and put your feet up then Perth is for you, we have great beaches, great wines and beer and great food, also the best place to see a beautiful sunset by the beach.
I don’t think that NOW is the best time to move to Australia because housing stock availability and affordability is causing problems all over Australia. I live in and love Melbourne but I haven’t been to the CBD for years but can say that there is cheaper housing the further out of the CBD and inner suburbs if you look. Mind you, there will always be “certain” suburbs, especially those with a beach view or much sought after schools that will exceed the median house price. Just remember that Melbourne is second only to LA in the extent of its urban sprawl. There are suburbs I have never driven to or through and never will get around to visiting as there is more than 1000 suburbs in Melbourne. The only States and Territories I haven’t been to are NT and WA so I can’t speak to them, but I reckon that I could live in any of the ones I have visited as people and lifestyle are much the same with only the weather and some points of interest (eg The Sydney Opera House etc) being of any major difference at any given time. There will always be crime, poverty, weather and other (animal/reptile/insect) dangers but most of us just keep our eyes open 👀, wear sunscreen and swim between the flags and lock our doors at night. Just leave the dangerous stuff to the adrenaline junkies or the couldn’t care less people. Oh, I recently heard that a lot of people from the UK are selling up in the UK and buying beach front properties in Adelaide because the prices are around 50% of the value received from their UK properties when they sold up. (Money in the bank after Re-settling in Adelaide). Check that out to verify. Love your enthusiasm for this ex-colony.
Australians only travel to places like Bali and Thailand for holidays, instead of Queensland, because it's so much cheaper. What you'd save in a single day being in Bali compared to Queensland would already make up for the slightly more expensive airfare to go overseas, so a week long holiday in Bali can only cost about a third of what a week in Queensland would cost.
You’ll be happy in any city in Oz. Some places may not have the night life etc but that might suit you. WA has best weather but a quieter city compared to the Eastern states. The warmer states might be a struggle for some too.
The Northern Territory and crime. I'm acknowledging the 'elephant in the room'. There are big, serious problems concerning the aboriginal/first nations population of the NT and the mishandling of alcohol which results in domestic violence, broken families, poverty, poor parenting, poor health, wayward juveniles, other violence and crime.
Brisbane’s housing market (renting and buying) is one of the most unaffordable in Australia and that’s now extending to other cities and towns in the State, from the Gold Coast - Sunshine Coast corridor to regional towns like Toowoomba and Bundaberg. But that’s the price of being in the State everyone wants to live in, and in my opinion Queensland has a better quality of life than NSW and Victoria. So many Melburnians bought property in Brisbane and the Sunshine Coast during their crazy lockdown it definitely inflated the prices.
Victoria has 3 regional city's all less than 2hrs ride on public transport from Melbourne which gives you the best of both worlds. Look up Geelong Bendigo and Ballarat
I reckon that the best is to found in the smaller satellite towns around those places. Places like Queenscliff or Point Lonsdale near Geelong or Creswick out of Ballarat or Castlemaine near Bendigo.
It doesn’t have the hype of Sydney or Melbourne, but if you have a family or enjoy sports, Perth or WA is fantastic. The weather is perfect and rarely does the weather affect your lifestyle. It doesn’t have a busy City life but the suburbs have every you want. Want to travel, check out the Coral Coast (Ningaloo, swim with the whale sharks, manta rays - even tiger sharks!) Kimberleys, Karijini etc. Prefer it cooler, check out the South West - great beaches, vineyards, country life. If my international friends ask me what’s it like, I tell them it’s shit!. I want to keep Perth to myself. Between you and me, come and check it out, you’ll love it!
The reality is we live and move in a very small circle of our respective states. Given WA is near half of Australia, the average resident isn't running up and down the State on a whim to enjoy it's features. People are confined to Perth for the most part and whilst it looks nice, it's a boring place to live and quite isolated. I would think a better barometer(although it's subjective) is rating the cities more where people work and do most of their leisure activity.
There's a lot more to Victoria than Melbourne. We have wonderful wineries, gourmet foods, great towns, pubs and the high country - all outside Melbourne in the regional areas.
I live in Melbourne (Victoria). As a redhead in summer I get burnt through a business shirt, thank goodness for air conditioning. I hide from the sun (even when it's overcast) from 9am until about 6:30pm during summer and a few weeks either side. I think Tasmania is the best state (the only state that doesn't have a desert). I have spent years working in Brisbane and Sydney, both a great cities and yes you can get great coffee in both of them as well as Melbourne, but deadly for redheads in the warmer months. I don't know where the 8th state is o if we are including the mainland territories in that as well, I don't know which one we are getting rid of, but neither would be missed.
I lived in Canberra for seventeen years. It is very convenient and comfortable if you have a car, but the public transport is poor, so it is a bad place to have to live if you can't drive, can't afford a car, or are too young to have a driving licence. There are few amusements, those that there are are a long way to get to because of the way everything is spread out, and the children there all seem to be lonely and bored. Well-heeled civil servants who can afford to do so stream out of Canberra for long weekends and other holidays, making mostly for Sydney of the South Coast of New South Wales - everyone else has nothing to do and no way of doing it. The climate is okay in autumn, but winter is cold enough to be really uncomfortable without being cold enough to offer snow, spring is windy, and the summer is long, hot, dry, dusty, and infested with flies. Finally, the ACT has no beaches.
When was this list made? How current are the stats? Interesting that they don't talk about the rental market both cost and vacancies levels. These two things have a big impact for livability
the best state is usually the one you live in and are used to. Personally I love everything that makes us the same and different. We're a weird mob ;) I live in Victoria so of course its the best to me but I love Adelaide. My family arrived there in 1839 so I have a connection to it but is a lovely town and I like that the shops shut earlier. Sydney is nice but I find it very 'Touristy'. Not a big fan of Queenslands climate.There's a few places that I as an Aussie am ashamed to say I haven't been. Tassie is high on my bucket list.
Perth and the Southwest region are great. WA is so huge it caters for every lifestyle choice. The other states can't compete with that diversity except maybe Queensland ,but even Qld is only half the size of WA
To be fair 70% of WA looks the same and is crap, there are some fantastic regions in the south, the Perth region and then the coast and inland around th Kimberley region to the NT border but 70% looks like the Pilbara...and it's meh.
Tasmania use to be considered the worst maybe 20 to 30 years ago and back ,apart from if you where a bush walker but we have evolved so much since Art and culture wise ,that we have more ppl wanting to live and visit since that we use to be a best kept secret..not anymore unfortunately.
Lived in tassie since i was 3 years old now 24. Its a great state with awesome 4wd tracks and great camping. But really the state is dying. Not sure what the mainland is like but lots of shops closing down. Tassie is great retirement place to live but good luck finding a job
Being a Queenslander it's hard to agree with this assessment. However, regardless of which state or territory we live in, this truly is the greatest country on earth.
My choice would be dependent on what stage of life you're in, and what interests you. Sydney and Melbourne vie for sporting events, stage productions and music festivals. Sydney has the edge for music, Melbourne is unparalleled for restaurants and coffee. I grew up in Canberra, so I'm honest about having a bias in favour there. Every state or territory except ACT and Tasmania has desert, many have rain forest and while our written history is short, we have never lacked "pioneer spirit", sporting prowess, superb artistry and a determination to prove our worth. For me, Victoria is best...
All of Australia is liveable, and there is a reason the State Capitals are all in the top 20 most liveable cities in the world. Most of the Regional Cities and Major Towns are in 50,000 - 120,000 people but still have the same amenities as the Capitals, without the hustle and the hassles of the big cities. You have to go back through history to find out how each Capital got it's character. Darwin - being so remote was the place to hide out for people who caused mischief in their home towns back when the cops told you that it is best if you leave town and get your crap together before they start clamping down. So there was a bit of ratbag in the early days and that carries over today. The crime will be related to punch ups and drunk and disorderly conduct. - A bit rough around the edges, Adelaide - is the City of Churches, so has that same wholesome sort of feel to the place. Someone from LA, Paris, London will call it slow or boring when it actually isn't once you slow down and adapt to the place. - Mostly nice people, nice city, nice scenery, it's just nice and there is nothing wrong with that. Brisbane - was the oversized country town for 100 years but when you tack on the Gold Coast (similar to LA) and Sunshine Coast (similar to Florida), the South East QLD has something for everyone, but the rest of the State has Tourism, Farming, or Industry in it's other cities so is more spread out. - Still a little bit country and a little bit rock and roll. Tasmania - has the rugged ranges and coast lines of Scotland, and Antarctic temperatures to rival the Arctic, but obviously for a lot less months of the year. Tasmania is on the same but opposite Latitude as Spain so it does get some warm temperatures as well. - Beautiful, but too cold. Sydney - used to be the Capital of the country so was the Financial and Power centre. It is still the place international companies want to have their Australian head offices, and because Sydney still gets to be the Financial centre they get an air of arrogance that they are the best and most important city and everyone should bow down to them. It is fast pace and hectic, everyone is in a rush to get somewhere while going nowhere. - Fast paced and a bit flippant towards the rest of the country. Canberra - is a fairly new city so is still finding it's character, but at the moment is full of Politicians or people who service politicians, that makes it a bit boring. In saying that, they do have the most porn and adult shops, and weed is legal in personal amounts. Yep.. that explains a few things. lol - Clean, pretty, quiet, but absolutely worth visiting. Melbourne - had the first gold rush which made it one of the richest per capita places on earth at one point in history, which attracted a lot of migrants who brought over a lot of their own cultures. Some of the best food, best coffee, best entertainment ideas and traits from every corner of the globe. It also attracted all of the crime families from across the planet so has it's fair share of tit for tat idiocy. Stay out of their way and you will be alright. There is a certain air of self righteousness from Victoria, where they expect to have what they want, when they want, and everyone else should just accept that and give them what they want. Because of the amount of rain, the town is grey, the sky is grey, a lot of the buildings have sandstone or bluestone facades that grow moss that turns grey, and the roads are grey. A lot like London, grey, cold and dreary. The good thing is that most of the time it will be sunny and blue skies an hour or 2 later. - Where ever you originally called home, you will find a group, place, club, shop, weather, etc, that will remind you of home, the good and the bad, so just don't get in anybody's way.. Perth - only exists to be the cooler part of the State so the miners can relax out of the heat. It does get a few Antarctic blast through winter and Desert blasts in summer but is fairly mild in between, it has very few of the bad points of the other States and a lot of their good points. - Fairly transient because of the 3 to 4 weeks on and 1 week off mining rosters, so everyone is either flying in, recuperating, or flying out, or passing through on their way back towards the Eastern States. I've pointed out the worst of the worse traits, but it really is only a small percentage of people that stand out like that. Most people are quite normal and don't need to behave in the extreme ways.
What I love about Australia, is that each state has its own culture, I have visited most of the states so far, and none of them have disappointed me.
Not the state but Sidney was really disappointing insanely overpriced the traffic and public transportation suck
Thanks for sticking up for South Australia and in particular Adelaide. It’s my home town and I wouldn’t want to be anywhere else. Named the most liveable city in Australia in 2021 and the fourth most liveable city in the world. And there are lots of reasons why people from the eastern states are moving here in record numbers
I interact with Ukrainian refugees there, they absolutely love Adelaide, and some British friends went there last year they loved it too! 👍🤗👏
Yes, Tassie and Adelaide were always considered the poor relations..not any more, we are having a real purple patch so to speak. Adelaide is beautiful, we visit often and honestly the people are the friendliest we've come across...and I'm from Tassie so that's saying something! Also the wildlife on your doorstep 😍 it's incredible, right in the city and you will still get it all, thanks to the wonderful trees everywhere and the commitment to tree coverage 🌳
@Natalie Keane As an Adelaidean, I totally agree. Adelaide is the only capital city in the world that is surrounded by parklands on all sides.
Have visited Tassie on a few occasions and loved the landscape and the history.
@@shaz464 well I can certainly believe it. My son lives in the foothills and it's gorgeous! He hikes straight from his house all around his local area! Also, we have friends from England/Australia that have lived in Perth for years and years, they have recently been travelling all around Oz and hands down their fave spots are Adelaide and Tassie! 😃 in fact so much so that within a year they've been back to both these states to bring family from the UK!! Yes, Tasmania is beautiful everywhere, I've been hearing that a lot lately. Everywhere you drive it's stunning, we Tasmanians take it for granted though. 🤗
My daughter lived in Adelaide for a year and absolutely loved it, I’m in Melbourne and said I’d love atmosphere of Adelaide. My son is in Adelaide now on holiday, he said it’s more peaceful, suburbs atmosphere is more like Vic country towns. He loves it too. But with 2 daughters in Melbourne and my son coming home. I’d miss my 30 and 40 year old babies and my grandchildren lol 😊
Lived in SA for over 60 years and I love it
Me too
Me three.
I lived in Tasmania 7 years and I left My heart there most livable place...fantastic nature and really friendly people ❤
But sooo cold.
I'd go back there in a heartbeat if they would fix the housing there and for a job that actually pays a reasonable amount.
I think its bad to try to rate best to worst states in Australia. They are all actually very individually different in their own way. It depends on the person living there and what their preferences are. I know many in all the different states and territories and most of them absolutely love where they are and always say they wouldn't ever live in any other state.
The one I know that lives in Canberra loves the icy colder climate and thrives there. It isn't for me, but they absolutely love it.
I feel so blessed living in Western Australia..
I live in Adelaide and the best way to describe it is that it is in between a moderate-sized town and a big city.
Yep. Melbourne's a big city and Perth is a moderately sized town and Adelaide in in between.
The only thing I have against Adelaide is that it's a bugger to navigate. Road signs seems to not be South Australia's strong suit. I know Sydney and Melbourne crap on it from a great height, but they do the same to Perth, my home city
Nope, Perth's population outnumbers Adelaide's by a healthy margin, and has changed a lot in the past decade
Remember that Adelaide is an entirely planned city. All the roads are straight so you tend to only need to move in the direction you want to go. The maps of the Paris underground are laid out in a grid pattern on the walls of the station which made them easy for me to follow because they are geometrically oriented.
@@Mechknight73I feel I can navigate adelaide with my eyes closed compared to any other city.
I love living in Perth but because of the distance from everywhere, it costs us a lot of money to travel anywhere on holidays. Being isolated was a good thing during the pandemic, though.
Adelaide is boring??? Not so... do you recall he said that it's the 'Festival State'? That's because we have 11 major arts and cultural festivals throughout the year that attract people from across the globe. We have the most festivals in the southern hemisphere. Whoever made this list is a complete tool.
Radelaide knows how to party.
The preoccupation with RANKING only means that something ranks first and something HAS to rank last. The reality is far more complex and these states and territories are all “amaaaaazink” for different reasons. No American opinion required 🤣🤣🤣🇦🇺🐨🦘
Many Australians love to holiday in Bali or Fiji because it's WAY fuckin' cheaper than going to a resort in QLD.
The entire country is way too expensive
As a Queenslander ranked at number 6, I wonder why we have the highest rate of interstate migration.
To clarify, year on year for at least 5 years, Queensland has had more people move from other states than any other state.
To be honest, I would be happy if you all stayed in your "better states"
Grumble grumble rabble rabble rabble
I spent 5yrs in qld, loved the place but the peopled so far up themselves, get rid of queenslanders and I b there in a heart beat😂😂😂
Tasmania is closest to the UK in terms of weather, and the air is so clean there because it comes straight up from the Antarctic. It's by far the greenest (lush grass and trees) state in Australia.
Melbourne has some great schools, and if you can get somewhere close to public transport, kids can basically ferry themselves around for secondary school. (years 7 to 12)
It's more than "Antarctic air"! It's clean, half the island is protected fauna! There are no pesticides or aerosols, the food is naturally grown! People with asthma and lung disease find they can soon climb mountains there! Etc! 🧐 There are so many drugs, loud protests, and race riots in Melbourne I wouldn't have children there! 🤨
Canberra is a great place to live for families and it’s population is 500k. Has the best amenities and everything is within a 30 minute drive with lost of parks and bike tracks and playgrounds everywhere
Great place for little kids. Also has a lot of festivals. Art centres and concerts. Feels like a rural town but has all services. Also it’s the best wages in the country
Plus it’s not difficult to drive to Sydney these days either. I really like Canberra.
@@carokat1111 it really is a great place to live especially for families
I live in south Australia in the suburbs and i love my state I've been to Queensland gold coast loads but i love south Australia 🇦🇺 ❤
i live in victoria and have spent time in nsw, qld, sa, act and tas, but not wa or nt as yet. i think this is a pretty fair ranking based on the things he discussed (affordability, safety, things to do, etc.). but it does come down to your own personality and lifestyle. one person's heaven is another's hell!
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@@chaoticoldbore fancy seeing you here 🤣
@@divid3d yeah that other one is my main account, this is my "BAD" account lol
I am a pretty big fan of reactors and Mat came across my feed a couple of months ago with his Farnsey reaction.
You said almost exactly my line of reasoning. I've lived in many of the states and enjoyed them all. I live in Qld now but I'll stick up for the other states when saying you cant base what the whole state is like, affordability etc, on just their capital cities. To me it's like having a favourite colour or a favourite meal it's all according to your own tastes.
Good on you mate. Love your UA-cam. I grew up in Newcastle Australia and still get back there once a year. Its a great place.
I live in Adelaide, and I would never live in a bigger city. There is plenty to do here, if you know where to look, and there are so many beautiful places to visit without having to drive far.
Born West Aussie here. WA has been improving steadily for the past 30yrs, improved public transport, tourist friendly infrastructures added at numerous tourist attractions all over the state, making so many more sites accessible and family friendly, with treetop suspension bridges, bridges over hanging magnificent gorges at the Murchison (Kalbarri) with the Pink Lakes. No need to hire a boat to snorkel the Ningaloo reefs at Exmouth n Coral Bay, just step off the beach and you're there already , or get on a charter boat to go swimming with the Whale Sharks. Added toilets up n down the coast with awesome picnic facilities in every town, Swan Valley and Margaret river wine regions (Best in Aus if you ask overseas tourists). Rottnest island with our gorgeous quokka's. Broome to go riding camels along Cable Beach, or go to watch the Stairway to the Moon. Esperance for a replica of Stone Henge, go island hopping the 104 islands off Esperance, and over to Woody Island for the glass bottom boat over the seahorse reefs to visit George the massive 9foot Blue Groper, who lives under the jetty, and comes out to be fed, the rare sea Eagles that fly down onto the cruise boats for the ranger to feed them daily, and Sammy the seal, who's wild but shows up on the back of most local boats begging for a feed lol. Kalgoorlie for the open mine pit, largest in the world. Kings Park that over looks Perth at night. I now live in Mandurah, 1hr sth of Perth, where we have Christmas on the canals, with every house doe up, music playing until 10pm and boat cruises every night - google it to see how beautiful all lit up it is, especially when the local 60 plus dolphins decide to join in and put on a show lol. The beauty here is endless, and I reckon we deserve No1. I think Sydney is overrated, showing its age, badly designed, too crowded, can smell the pollution if no breeze, and you can feel it on your skin, and would have them No7 only above Darwin. All other rankings seemed fair enough to me.
Hey, you missed Monkey Mia, the Pinnacles, Wave Rock and .......
The metropolitan beaches have been systematically destroyed, especially Scarborough.
@@patrix5614 and I could've gone on forever lol....The giants on show in Mandurah. Eating cherabins fresh outta the creeks up in Derby. Argyle dam. The Bungle Bungles. Karijini. Cape Le Grande national park. The Mammoth, Lake and Jewel caves near Busselton. The horizontal falls up in the Kimberley. Serpentine falls. Shark Bay with Monkey Mia, Eagle bluff, steep point and Dirk Hartog Island. Diving and deep sea fishing off the Montibello islands - can I stop now ? 😂
@@kenchristie9214 we still have Australia's whitest sand beaches - Lucky Bay, Hellfire Bay and Wiley beach (all in Cape Le Grande, Esperance) 😁
Haha, we often visit the canals in Yunderup and have been over Chriatmas a couple of times. My husbands family live in WA (as did we for a short while) so we can attest to the lights on the houses!
You little ripper mate. NEWCASTLE got a mention.
Sorry but I just hate Yanks explaining their bs opinions on Oz. Typical US capitalist concerns being how much is the average per capita income. They never mention quality of life but the number of bloody theme parks as a big plus. Uninhabitable to the Yank, is natural wilderness to me. Give us a break mate.
yep, not a fan of outsiders "informing" people of what it's like. I mean what if I made a video like the one he is watching about the US. "Don't go near schools in this state as you might get shot as a bystander and then good luck paying your medical bills afterwards, bankrupt or dead or both"... I would get crucified by the dumb yanks.
I'm from Tasmania and it gets hot there. Most states have runs of 5/6 days or more in a row of extreme heat while Tasmania usually has around 3/4 extreme days in a row.
I personally think Tasmania is the best, despite the fact that I was born and have lived in NSW my entire life. I've seen a lot of other places in Australia, and Tasmania is one of the most gorgeous and has some of the best food I have ever tried. If you were to go anywhere in Australia on holiday, it's the place to be. It's capital, Hobart, is stunning in terms of looks, with a lot of greenery and a wonderfully clean harbour. The market place there is one of the best I've seen, it has so many beautiful mountains, even one right next to the city that I 100% recommend going up. Their desserts, especially ones containing cream are honestly divine, and their sites and wildlife are some of the most stunning. Their history is extremely sad but interesting. The only downside is possibly the coldness, but to me personally, I love the cold, and it's probably why I'm so attracted to the place.
If you have been to Melbourne and loved it before you had kids then Adelaide is the place for you - it's very family-friendly and isn't as crowded as Melbourne. More relaxed with everything so close by and so easy to get around - everything is only 20 mins away! You would also be centrally located to everywhere else in Australia! Also, we get 4 fabulous seasons - Feb & March being the best weather times with festivals for the full 2 months! Come and visit - you'll love it!
I'm from Adelaide shhhhh don't tell anyone and he didn't tell you where in the middle of all the states closest to Western Australia and
1 hr flight to Melbourne then straight across to Sydney Queensland up to Darwin
West Aussie born and bred here, honestly not a surprise to me at all we came first. Despite a low population we punch well above our weight in terms of culture, sports, and science. We also have vast and varied landscapes, amazing natural wonders, world leading wineries, world class surf breaks, unique flora and fauna not found anywhere else, and some of the most recognised beautiful beaches in Australia. Perth is often counted as both the most laid-back city in Australia and comes with the greatest number of sunny days of any capital. There is also a rich and vibrant history here, and an insane amount of natural wealth; WA accounts for more than 40% of all Australian exports, which is insane when you consider we have only 11% of Australia's Population.
-That's only exports in volume, not value.- Was meant to say the mining industry Australia wide only makes up 5.8% of the Australian economy...that includes taxes and export revenue.
The only exports are minerals and mine workers!! Haves/have nots! You can see Perth on a day! 🥱
Proud West Aussie here and couldn’t have said it better myself. We have it all over here, we are the best kept secret in the world and I wouldn’t live anywhere else. By the way Iron Ore is Australia’s biggest export in monetary terms. If Australia didn’t have Western Australia’s exports we would be a 3rd world country. It’s time the rest of Australia realised this.
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Or you could split and go live with your best buddy China
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Mining is only 7th on the list in the industries that make the most revenue in Australia's economy. Mining (Australia wide) only accounts for 5.8% 9f GDP.
I have a friend who moved to Norfolk Island and LOVES it
Helloooooooooo from Hobart. Weather is comparable to the UK.
Less rainy in tas I think. We actually have a quite temperate climate.
@@carokat1111 1500mm - 3500 mm annually, location depending, its been a wet summer in Hobart.
Also remember, Hobart is the second driest capital in Australia!!
@@nataliekeane8944 Yes, it's not a widely understood fact.
@@ChannelReuploads9451 According to the BOM, Hobart's average rainfall is 612.8 mm. 2021 was out of the box with double that amount, but it wasn't the norm.
Adelaide has beautiful beaches that are often not crowded, wineries from Barossa in the north to way down to the Coonawarra in the south, beautiful Adelaide hills which are glorious in their autumn colours atm. Cheaper living and a great place to bring up children. I've lived here since 1979 and wouldn't live anywhere else. I could go on but this American voice over is verysuperficial.
I love a lot of places in Australia. I live in Brisbane, Queensland and can’t believe it came in at 6th. The proof that this is wrong is the number of people who move from other states to Queensland. Low income is not as obvious as it made out (considering there isn’t much variation between states in median income).
I think the rankings are pretty good. As a North west WA resident, I believe that WA should be No. 1 as it has such diversity in its geography, climate and culture.
Matt The majority of our aboriginal people are are decent folk. Sadly there is an element of those who are not so nice. It will be only part of the reason for the crime rate in Darwin. Currently the authorities, towns people, councils etc are at a total loss because of mainly young aboriginals running amok in Alice Springs. (Second biggest city in Northern Territory) most of this problem is the easy access to alcohol in this area.
A similar problem eventuated recently in the far north Queensland city of Townsville for the same reasons.
Fiji, Bali, Malaysia, Thailand are where we all go because it’s cheaper than holidaying in Australia. You also get that Asian hospitality and food!! I love swimming in the ocean in Thailand as the water is warm. Ocean water is cold here.
Not in the Sub Tropics where I live. The ocean is warmer than my shower and I miss that first bite of cold water.
I once lived in Bangkok for nearly 3 years. I remember visiting Phuket and thinking that the ocean there was like swimming in mother-of-pearl! (Greetings from another diehard JF fan.😊)
I live in perth but have lived all over the nation, since I work federally. Perth is really just an all-round great place. And also from what my little brother (army guy) says, being stationed at Campbell Barracks is his favourite place (idk why lmao). Every state and city is great in Australia, but yeah, I agree that Perth is the best for a person who isn't a millionaire. We also have some great universities here like UWA, ECU, and Notre Dame.
Looks VERY arbitrary to me. I will not dispute that some areas have it over others in specific ways, but generally it is very much an 'apples and pears' situation.
I lived in Rockhampton, Queensland, for most of my life (actually some footage was in the video). It's a town of 90k people, and rather relaxed. I moved to Adelaide about 4 years ago, and I still get that small town feel, but with big city excitements, with sporting events, concerts, more work, etc. I think Adelaide would be Australia's best city for living. Literally 15 minutes from the city and you're in country wine regions, a couple of hours north you're in beautiful farm land, or beach side towns.
I don't know what you do for a living Matt but, have a look at Newcastle. It has great everything e.g. beaches, wineries, hospitals, education plus e'thing is such a short drive away. Sydney ( if you wanted to go ) is only 1 1/2 hours down the track. You could do a LOT worse mate.
One of my sister's lives there, she goes to the beach nearly every day and never comes to Sydney now! Happy, full lifestyle! 👍
Not to mention the best and largest salt water lake in the southern hemisphere being Lake Macquarie adjoining Newcastle so you can choose beach or lake... great for boating.
@@jemor2143 Spot on mate.
I was born in Melbourne my husband and I wouldn't leave it, we brought up our 5 children and they love it.
Been to every State and lived in Several. Originally from N.T, I settled in S.A. after visiting all. If I need busy I can hop on a plane for a holiday and be in a busy overrated city within hours.....👍 S.A
Western Australia has literally everything that all the other states have but all rolled into one place. From scenery to weather, beaches, leisure activities, user friendly cities, great transport, plenty of nightlife, great restaurants, road systems, affordable housing, great job opportunities, great schools and hospitals, lots of smaller towns and rural communities, if you're not into city life Only downside is we get left off a lot of concert tours due to distance.
YAY from WA !!!! ✨✨✨✨✨✨🎆🎆🎆🎆🎆🎆
I was born and raised in NSW. Worked in Sydney when in my teens, lived in the Western suburbs and loved it. Also raised my kids in Country NSW in the Central West. Loved it there and kids had so much more freedom because it was a small country town and everyone looked out for each other. Moved to WA and kids spent high school years in the Avon Valley - absolutely beautiful, but for work, not the greatest. Now living 5 hrs North and love it Not crowded but big enough to have shops beaches, sporting facilities, countryside all within a 5 to 10 minute drive.
I honestly think it depends on your own needs and personal likes. Every State and every city is going to have those that love it and those that don't
I'm from the Gippsland region of Victoria. It is absolutely a fantastic place to live and raise a family, as long as you can handle frostbite and heatstroke all at once
Perth is absolutely number one. Clean, beautiful, relaxed, great job market and affordable living.
I've lived in Brisbane, Townsville, Canberra & Melbourne. The first two are humid & laid back. Nearby islands like Magnetic & North Stradbroke are gorgeous getaways for the locals.
Canberra is a more career-oriented place. Lovely clean air & lots of sun, but bloody cold for most of the year! Regularly dips to minus 5 deg at night in winter. Great for kids to grow up but can feel a bit constrictive sometimes.
Melbourne ... well, you've been here. It's fabulous 😊 It has everything you'd want for a young family. Good schools, parks, shops, cafes. Good job opportunities bc of its size. It's not cheap, though. You just have to be able to afford to rent/buy here!
No surprise to me WA is awesome according to me in my live I have lived i Brisbane Sydney and Melbourne Also 3 years in London. I came back to Perth to raise my family and for a family it has it all! Great schools medical facilities recreational facilities restaurants pubs live music scene beaches and parks jobs and housing What’s not to love 💕 😂❤
I've only been to the NT a couple of times in my life but have described Darwin to friends as being like 'the wild west' and almost like being in another country. It does have a relatively higher indigenous population and is quite isolated from the majority of the national population. It's full of many stunning landscapes.
So how is Darwin like the wild west? Being far away but almost exactly the same as everywhere else in Australia except for size doesn't make it the wild West.
@@andrewsmall6834 Alcohol. I once read Darwins alcohol consumption per capita is almost double the next highest anywhere on the planet.
Darwin's climate is something you either love or hate with a passion. I visited once years ago, during the build up. Was the worst humidity I have ever experienced. Hated it.
"relatively higher indigenous population" and this is why the crime rate is so high. statistics are skewed due to people that cannot help themselves.
They say there is so much poverty in QLD because many of the unemployed, or drifters, homeless, surfers, bogans, from all over Australia, move to QLD. Their thinking is, 'if you're going to be poor or homeless, why not do it in a beautiful sunny place'. So they move to QLD.
Lived on the very edge of Sydney, Surry hills. A really bad hailstorm rolled up the coast from the south. 3/4's of the houses across Sydney's southern suburbs had their ceramic tiled roofs destroyed as well as most suffering water inundation due to smashed window's. Thousands of cars were dented beyond repair. I lived on the sunshine coast Queensland, and, regularly got flooded in for a month or so nearly every year. Lost my home in a bushfire when I lived in country N.S.W. I could not live anywhere else except here. Cockatoos and Corella's on the balcony, some time's it's the Kookaburra's. Wallaby's in the front yard. What's not to love?
Definitely arbitrary! The cities are different, it's personal taste and the State Government! Very American! 🧐 Norfolk Island is different, very interesting, check it out! 👍 The NT, not recommended! Adelaide is a really nice place for families, and has a very interesting multi-cultural mix, and the beach! I don't recommend Qld, it's too touristy and surfie dropouts (Florida with Units)! Tasmania is so beautiful, unique and historical, very clean, lots of new development! 👍 (Tasmania is warmer in winter than Canberra!) NSW is massive and has other big cities and beach towns! Newcastle and Wollongong are really worth checking out! I have passed through Canberra to Thredbo for skiing, it does provide space! Melbourne City is chaos, it's too hip for small children! Perth is very class conscious, very dry heat and isolated - rich executives / hard drinking mine workers, there is plenty of parks for children though!? 🤔
It’s incredibly annoying to have Perth described in such derogatory terms, and completely off base. Interestingly your focus on capital cities in some instances, given the assessments were on states, not cities. I’ve travelled to all states & territories, many multiple times. I absolutely love WA, in winter we head up north and in summer we head down south & it has so much beauty & wonder on offer. WA cops a fair bit of rubbish from the ES, but the disdain is not reciprocated. I love what this country has to offer & I love to travel it as much as I can. I’ll always come back west though, because it’s also the gateway to my second favourite holiday destination which is Vietnam Cambodia Laos Thailand Singapore Bali. Not isolated from that perspective at all 😅
I'm West Aussie born in Perth (But also spent my teenage years in a town 5 hours from Perth called Geraldton), It's true some of the best well paid jobs come from mining (and the state is pretty much known for mining, which has a boom and bust cycle too reliant on China sometimes) and we feel like a big "country city" with the lifestyle, but there's also a lot of creative people here (Heath Ledger was born in Perth, Hugh Jackman went to WAAPA, a drama school in Perth) and I think it's good we are trying to diversify the job market here. It's just a struggle because a lot of the creative market and jobs are moved "over east" (Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane) as we call it, and we are trying, but the government has recently approved a movie studio to be built here!
I haven't seen that video before. I found it mostly accurate and I agree with what was said. I was born in Canberra and lived there till my mid 20's then moved to Victoria, spent a few years there. Spent 2 years in Adelaide. Moved to Sydney bought a home on the central coast just south of Newcastle, but worked in Sydney for over 15 years. I then moved to Brisbane and spent a few years there as well. I now live in the gorgeous Northern Rivers region of NSW (just south of the QLD/NSW border). The only cities I've not lived in are Perth and Darwin, but I have spent holiday time there. I did love Perth but it was simply too far away from everything! Hated Darwin because of the weather.. ugh humidity! I have never been to Tasmania/Hobart.
Geelong and the Bellarine Peninsula are worth considering. Geelong has a population of 250,000 and is only a 50 minute drive from Melbourne. You can also catch the ferry from Geelong to Tasmania and it has an airport catering for flights around Australia and overseas. There is also a ferry from Geelong to the centre of Melbourne as well as regular trains. It is also the beginning of the Surf Coast. Houses are cheaper too.
For a proper(satirical) city review, checkout the 'Go Away' series by Tom Gleeson
If you like freezing winds yeah go to Canberra!
I lived there the first 18 years of my life… then I moved to Queensland.
I’ve been back once in 1994
I’m from Perth and so glad I don’t live there anymore. Too isolating and boring. I now live in NSW and love it. Here you can drive to all the other states same day unlike Perth. 20 minutes from beautiful beaches, surrounded by country side and two hrs drive from snow and 30 minutes from wine country where I live.
It is much cheaper to go on holidays to Bali compared to Queensland
Newcastle is in the hunter valley, close to Sydney. Has the biggest lake in australia, close to Barrington tops National park , port Stephen’s tourist areas , beaches everywhere and is affordable if you go 30 minutes from the city
Geez Lillibit... sshhhh already, too many people know about us already!! 😁
@@leonieburnham322 lmao soz
If you really want to go somewhere to experience great food, Tasmania should be on the list - Australia has it's spots, like if you want really nice fish the central and south coasts are amazing if you can find restaurants that take in same day catches and serve it up for lunch and dinner (about as fresh as you can get). But, Tasmania is unique, it has rich and fertile soil so fresh produce is usually really high quality, great fisheries and farms (amazing dairy as well, King Island Dairy make some of the best cheese I've ever had). I've lived on the mainland my entire life and even when I was a kid, it was always a thing that if people wanted to go on a scenic but foody holiday, that heading to Tassie was what people would plan for.
All of Australia is pretty much on par. I don’t believe there’s a worst state. It all depends on what you prefer and whether there’s suitable housing to your liking.
In Sydney, the CBD isn’t very big compared to the massive suburban sprawl but it’s still very expensive and those with high incomes might choose it to be close to corporate business, but as you spread outwards from the CBD, housing prices are very much dependent on the suburbs you choose, from waterfront million dollar homes to any of the many suburbs where most families reside. Of course, as the months go by, prices and locations can vary, since things are constantly in a state of flux.
Canberra is Australia’s capital city and the Territory surrounding it is filled with public servants, politicians, and international embassies. If you work for the Federal government, you would most likely choose to live there, otherwise, it’s a long drive from both Sydney and Melbourne, the nearest major cities.
I can tell ya as a West Aussie who has lived in Perth my whole life, I've never wished to be anywhere else. Also, those of us who live here, when covid hit the world and people were dying and cities were coming to a stand still, the most isolated city in the world is where you want to be. Cutting off from the rest of the world and staying safe was damn easy in comparison to other major cities in the world and even in the rest of Australia. Not to say there weren't hiccups like most other places in the world in finding what worked and what didn't, but safety wise, I was damned happy and counted myself lucky to be exactly where I was when the nasty bug finally found our shores.
The maker of this video is very good he’s done extensive best places in America and Canada and does his research
I've lived in several countries in 3 continents growing up before moving to West. Aust. and then Sth Aust. I chose to go to uni in Melbourne but yeah, same as with you, the place instantly resonated with my personality and I fell in love with it. 100 years later and now almost an empty-nester, I still love it.
I live in Perth western Australia and u are correct. It has wide open spaces. Housing is very affordable and most are double brick homes. BEAUTIFUL Beaches. Easy access to the city not the long delays like Melbourne and Sydney. WA is the best
I live in a small town called Scone. 2 hours inland from Newcastle in NSW. Population of 6k. I prefer this then a city. But still expensive to live in a tiny town too 🙃
Canberra has lots of family facilities, good schools, and nice suburbs. However, contrary to what's been promoted here, there is lots of good nightlife here, restaurants, festivals, and low crime rate!!
It is also full of public servants and politicians. Sounds more like a snake hole with that much slippery slime.
lol there’s always got to be one
@@darrengray2309 Actually the pollies don't live in Canberra hence why Canberra isn't polluted....
Wasn’t South Australia where the ‘F1 car races’ zipped around the city roads, like in Monte Carlo Europe?
DON’T ASK AUSSIES.
We are extremely patriotic about our beautiful country, emphasised by the fabulous seekers song, “I am Australian,”along with the “Qantas, I still call Australia home,” fantastic advertisement.
However that’s not where our patriotism ends. Ask the majority of Sydneysiders which is the best state and they’re likely to say New South Wales, (and Melbourne sucks.) ask Melburnians and it’s Victoria. (and Sydney sucks)
Adelaide people won’t give you two bob, (20c) for Sydney, Melbourne, or anywhere else, and Perth people will pump their chests up and thoroughly agree with the video.
You’ll get the, “I lived in Melbourne and now I love Sydney,” or the, “I lived in Sydney but now I love Melbourne,” enthusiasts.
There are many people who love their home state, particularly those brought up in an area from childhood. Many of those will eagerly tell you the faults of other cities/states.
I’m no different. I’m born and bred in Melbourne. Can I tell you anything about the place that is NOT my biased opinion? Yes I can. A worldwide group taking lots of different lifestyle features into consideration, voted Melbourne, “The worlds most livable city, six years in a row.”
My obligatory dig at Sydney is that it is too fast paced and is somewhat along the lines of big brash American cities, and has only one worthwhile feature which is, The Sydney Swans. (AFL) (coz they used to be South Melbourne.)
Unaffected by patriotism, you can study the whole place and work out which city/state you like best.
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I think in some ways all states offer a certain advantage, depending on what you want at the current stage of your life. I have travelled to every state, but I am born and bred from Adelaide, South Australia. If you want to raise a family, be able to afford raising a family, holiday to some of the most peaceful and serene locations as a family or..a cheeky getaway as a couple 😉🤭 SA has it covered. Not to mention beautiful Kangaroo Island is only a short trip away 🛫🛬. Queensland and Tassie are beautiful too, but NSW is the 'holiday destination', lived in Newcastle for six years 😊
I camped in the Adelaide showground 2 km from the centre of town. On Sunday, I could not find a cafe to buy a coffee, a newsagent to buy a paper, nothing was open except those who thought it fair, on account of them being the only shop in town to charge $6 for a coffee and $12 for an egg and bacon roll.
If you are coming from the UK, Europe, Africa or Asia, Perth and its South West are a great place to visit , if you have a lot of time on your travels add in the North West of Western Australia, it is a large state and needs the time, but in the north west it is the distance between places that will get you. Melbourne is nice and fairly easy to get around city, the countryside outside the city is beautiful, the east coast of Australia has the most cities and places to see, so with in the same area of Western Australia you have four major cities. The east coast has the most to offer, but as they say, the simple thing in life are often the best, so come and see the west coast. If you like the hustle and bustle of large cities then Perth is not for you, if you like to relax and put your feet up then Perth is for you, we have great beaches, great wines and beer and great food, also the best place to see a beautiful sunset by the beach.
I don’t think that NOW is the best time to move to Australia because housing stock availability and affordability is causing problems all over Australia. I live in and love Melbourne but I haven’t been to the CBD for years but can say that there is cheaper housing the further out of the CBD and inner suburbs if you look. Mind you, there will always be “certain” suburbs, especially those with a beach view or much sought after schools that will exceed the median house price. Just remember that Melbourne is second only to LA in the extent of its urban sprawl. There are suburbs I have never driven to or through and never will get around to visiting as there is more than 1000 suburbs in Melbourne. The only States and Territories I haven’t been to are NT and WA so I can’t speak to them, but I reckon that I could live in any of the ones I have visited as people and lifestyle are much the same with only the weather and some points of interest (eg The Sydney Opera House etc) being of any major difference at any given time. There will always be crime, poverty, weather and other (animal/reptile/insect) dangers but most of us just keep our eyes open 👀, wear sunscreen and swim between the flags and lock our doors at night. Just leave the dangerous stuff to the adrenaline junkies or the couldn’t care less people. Oh, I recently heard that a lot of people from the UK are selling up in the UK and buying beach front properties in Adelaide because the prices are around 50% of the value received from their UK properties when they sold up. (Money in the bank after Re-settling in Adelaide). Check that out to verify. Love your enthusiasm for this ex-colony.
Australians only travel to places like Bali and Thailand for holidays, instead of Queensland, because it's so much cheaper. What you'd save in a single day being in Bali compared to Queensland would already make up for the slightly more expensive airfare to go overseas, so a week long holiday in Bali can only cost about a third of what a week in Queensland would cost.
You’ll be happy in any city in Oz. Some places may not have the night life etc but that might suit you. WA has best weather but a quieter city compared to the Eastern states. The warmer states might be a struggle for some too.
Come to Melbourne.... we have a great state and it is safe for the kiddies also!!
The Northern Territory and crime. I'm acknowledging the 'elephant in the room'. There are big, serious problems concerning the aboriginal/first nations population of the NT and the mishandling of alcohol which results in domestic violence, broken families, poverty, poor parenting, poor health, wayward juveniles, other violence and crime.
Brisbane’s housing market (renting and buying) is one of the most unaffordable in Australia and that’s now extending to other cities and towns in the State, from the Gold Coast - Sunshine Coast corridor to regional towns like Toowoomba and Bundaberg. But that’s the price of being in the State everyone wants to live in, and in my opinion Queensland has a better quality of life than NSW and Victoria. So many Melburnians bought property in Brisbane and the Sunshine Coast during their crazy lockdown it definitely inflated the prices.
Victoria has 3 regional city's all less than 2hrs ride on public transport from Melbourne which gives you the best of both worlds. Look up Geelong Bendigo and Ballarat
I reckon that the best is to found in the smaller satellite towns around those places. Places like Queenscliff or Point Lonsdale near Geelong or Creswick out of Ballarat or Castlemaine near Bendigo.
It doesn’t have the hype of Sydney or Melbourne, but if you have a family or enjoy sports, Perth or WA is fantastic. The weather is perfect and rarely does the weather affect your lifestyle. It doesn’t have a busy City life but the suburbs have every you want. Want to travel, check out the Coral Coast (Ningaloo, swim with the whale sharks, manta rays - even tiger sharks!) Kimberleys, Karijini etc. Prefer it cooler, check out the South West - great beaches, vineyards, country life. If my international friends ask me what’s it like, I tell them it’s shit!. I want to keep Perth to myself. Between you and me, come and check it out, you’ll love it!
Mate you need to come to Cairns
i love us all ♥... except when footy season is on
The reality is we live and move in a very small circle of our respective states.
Given WA is near half of Australia, the average resident isn't running up and down the State on a whim to enjoy it's features. People are confined to Perth for the most part and whilst it looks nice, it's a boring place to live and quite isolated. I would think a better barometer(although it's subjective) is rating the cities more where people work and do most of their leisure activity.
There's a lot more to Victoria than Melbourne. We have wonderful wineries, gourmet foods, great towns, pubs and the high country - all outside Melbourne in the regional areas.
Absolutely. The best that Victoria has to offer is in the regional areas.
I live in Melbourne (Victoria). As a redhead in summer I get burnt through a business shirt, thank goodness for air conditioning. I hide from the sun (even when it's overcast) from 9am until about 6:30pm during summer and a few weeks either side. I think Tasmania is the best state (the only state that doesn't have a desert). I have spent years working in Brisbane and Sydney, both a great cities and yes you can get great coffee in both of them as well as Melbourne, but deadly for redheads in the warmer months. I don't know where the 8th state is o if we are including the mainland territories in that as well, I don't know which one we are getting rid of, but neither would be missed.
I lived in Canberra for seventeen years. It is very convenient and comfortable if you have a car, but the public transport is poor, so it is a bad place to have to live if you can't drive, can't afford a car, or are too young to have a driving licence. There are few amusements, those that there are are a long way to get to because of the way everything is spread out, and the children there all seem to be lonely and bored. Well-heeled civil servants who can afford to do so stream out of Canberra for long weekends and other holidays, making mostly for Sydney of the South Coast of New South Wales - everyone else has nothing to do and no way of doing it.
The climate is okay in autumn, but winter is cold enough to be really uncomfortable without being cold enough to offer snow, spring is windy, and the summer is long, hot, dry, dusty, and infested with flies.
Finally, the ACT has no beaches.
When was this list made? How current are the stats?
Interesting that they don't talk about the rental market both cost and vacancies levels. These two things have a big impact for livability
Check out Brad and Hailey Devine's first video when they landed in Sydney with their kids. visited kid-friendly stuff.
I agree
there are not bad states / territories in australia. they are all equally as good.
Perth is awesome...and the whole southern coast down to Margaret river and further south is just outstanding
the best state is usually the one you live in and are used to. Personally I love everything that makes us the same and different. We're a weird mob ;) I live in Victoria so of course its the best to me but I love Adelaide. My family arrived there in 1839 so I have a connection to it but is a lovely town and I like that the shops shut earlier.
Sydney is nice but I find it very 'Touristy'. Not a big fan of Queenslands climate.There's a few places that I as an Aussie am ashamed to say I haven't been. Tassie is high on my bucket list.
Perth and the Southwest region are great. WA is so huge it caters for every lifestyle choice. The other states can't compete with that diversity except maybe Queensland ,but even Qld is only half the size of WA
To be fair 70% of WA looks the same and is crap, there are some fantastic regions in the south, the Perth region and then the coast and inland around th Kimberley region to the NT border but 70% looks like the Pilbara...and it's meh.
Rubbish!
@barnowl how diverse is your tiny state lol
Matt as you are in Malaysia Perth is probably less isolated from your point of view than the other capitals, its just a 5 hour flight for you.
Tasmania use to be considered the worst maybe 20 to 30 years ago and back ,apart from if you where a bush walker but we have evolved so much since Art and culture wise ,that we have more ppl wanting to live and visit since that we use to be a best kept secret..not anymore unfortunately.
Lived in tassie since i was 3 years old now 24. Its a great state with awesome 4wd tracks and great camping. But really the state is dying. Not sure what the mainland is like but lots of shops closing down. Tassie is great retirement place to live but good luck finding a job
Being a Queenslander it's hard to agree with this assessment. However, regardless of which state or territory we live in, this truly is the greatest country on earth.
Love Newy, reduced traffic, fabulous beaches, 1.5 hours to Sydney, housing half the price.
My choice would be dependent on what stage of life you're in, and what interests you. Sydney and Melbourne vie for sporting events, stage productions and music festivals. Sydney has the edge for music, Melbourne is unparalleled for restaurants and coffee. I grew up in Canberra, so I'm honest about having a bias in favour there. Every state or territory except ACT and Tasmania has desert, many have rain forest and while our written history is short, we have never lacked "pioneer spirit", sporting prowess, superb artistry and a determination to prove our worth.
For me, Victoria is best...
Sydney has the edge on music? When did that happen?
All of Australia is liveable, and there is a reason the State Capitals are all in the top 20 most liveable cities in the world.
Most of the Regional Cities and Major Towns are in 50,000 - 120,000 people but still have the same amenities as the Capitals, without the hustle and the hassles of the big cities.
You have to go back through history to find out how each Capital got it's character.
Darwin - being so remote was the place to hide out for people who caused mischief in their home towns back when the cops told you that it is best if you leave town and get your crap together before they start clamping down. So there was a bit of ratbag in the early days and that carries over today. The crime will be related to punch ups and drunk and disorderly conduct. - A bit rough around the edges,
Adelaide - is the City of Churches, so has that same wholesome sort of feel to the place. Someone from LA, Paris, London will call it slow or boring when it actually isn't once you slow down and adapt to the place. - Mostly nice people, nice city, nice scenery, it's just nice and there is nothing wrong with that.
Brisbane - was the oversized country town for 100 years but when you tack on the Gold Coast (similar to LA) and Sunshine Coast (similar to Florida), the South East QLD has something for everyone, but the rest of the State has Tourism, Farming, or Industry in it's other cities so is more spread out. - Still a little bit country and a little bit rock and roll.
Tasmania - has the rugged ranges and coast lines of Scotland, and Antarctic temperatures to rival the Arctic, but obviously for a lot less months of the year. Tasmania is on the same but opposite Latitude as Spain so it does get some warm temperatures as well. - Beautiful, but too cold.
Sydney - used to be the Capital of the country so was the Financial and Power centre. It is still the place international companies want to have their Australian head offices, and because Sydney still gets to be the Financial centre they get an air of arrogance that they are the best and most important city and everyone should bow down to them. It is fast pace and hectic, everyone is in a rush to get somewhere while going nowhere. - Fast paced and a bit flippant towards the rest of the country.
Canberra - is a fairly new city so is still finding it's character, but at the moment is full of Politicians or people who service politicians, that makes it a bit boring. In saying that, they do have the most porn and adult shops, and weed is legal in personal amounts. Yep.. that explains a few things. lol - Clean, pretty, quiet, but absolutely worth visiting.
Melbourne - had the first gold rush which made it one of the richest per capita places on earth at one point in history, which attracted a lot of migrants who brought over a lot of their own cultures. Some of the best food, best coffee, best entertainment ideas and traits from every corner of the globe. It also attracted all of the crime families from across the planet so has it's fair share of tit for tat idiocy. Stay out of their way and you will be alright. There is a certain air of self righteousness from Victoria, where they expect to have what they want, when they want, and everyone else should just accept that and give them what they want. Because of the amount of rain, the town is grey, the sky is grey, a lot of the buildings have sandstone or bluestone facades that grow moss that turns grey, and the roads are grey. A lot like London, grey, cold and dreary. The good thing is that most of the time it will be sunny and blue skies an hour or 2 later. - Where ever you originally called home, you will find a group, place, club, shop, weather, etc, that will remind you of home, the good and the bad, so just don't get in anybody's way..
Perth - only exists to be the cooler part of the State so the miners can relax out of the heat. It does get a few Antarctic blast through winter and Desert blasts in summer but is fairly mild in between, it has very few of the bad points of the other States and a lot of their good points. - Fairly transient because of the 3 to 4 weeks on and 1 week off mining rosters, so everyone is either flying in, recuperating, or flying out, or passing through on their way back towards the Eastern States.
I've pointed out the worst of the worse traits, but it really is only a small percentage of people that stand out like that. Most people are quite normal and don't need to behave in the extreme ways.
Queensland has the best islands with Fraser, more-Ron, stradbroke, magnetic etc, etc.