Originally Posted by
PoppaJo
I lived in Sydney in the late 90s and for a two year secondment few years back. I was so desperate to get out that place I begged my boss for a secondment of my already secondment to go to another base. Two things which really irked me this decade over the last was traffic gridlock and the immigration invasion (advice is don't go to Blacktown unless armed).
I just don't understand the pull factor of place. It's just dirty and miserable, it screams rip me off everywhere you go. Melbourne just wipes it off the map.
This is the city with the airport that has no train station at the airport and a road widening scheme that is taking three years to complete. Sydney isn't that bad, but it is a little expensive. No different than comparing any other main financial centre of any other country i.e New York/London.