I'm in Melbourne... this is like the Portland of Australia. I've had a few stakes here and still had better steak in San Francisco.
Australians get royally fucked on car prices...
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I'm in Melbourne... this is like the Portland of Australia. I've had a few stakes here and still had better steak in San Francisco.
Bullshit, haven't tasted a single great steak in the states.
Also bullshit, you don't make $200K/year working in a mine in aus. The average is around $100K with no qualifications. Also, if you work in a mine in aus, you spend $50K/year on alcohol.
Where in Melbourne are you?
There are heaps of good steak places in Melbourne - not sure where you've been eating but probably not at the right places. You either need to go to a fine dining establishment OR go to a pub with good pub meals. Australia and Melbourne have a pretty crappy mid priced restaurant scene - you either need to cheap it up and get thai/indian go to a pub or go to a nice fine dining place. If you're going to a place that is $15-$25 and it's not a pub meal chances are you aren't getting your moneys worth.
Try buying the melbourne cheap eats guide or the melbourne good food guide.
If you don't like sport/art/music then Melbourne isn't for you, we are sport crazy and probably have the best sports district in the world (MCG, Melbourne Park, New Soccer Oval/Rugby Oval + new stands being built as part of Melbourne park).
The best camparison I've heard is that Melbourne is most like NYC and Sydney more like LA. Obviously they are both smaller, but the types of people you'll find are fairly similar.
What you said above is exactly why this place is more like Portland then NYC. You don't even have Yelp/Citysearch here. You have to buy books to find places to eat wtf, I don't want to read I want to eat. Borrowed the slow guide to Melbourne couldnt get past the 5th page of this self indulgent nonsense. The other problem is there's a lot of "scenes" here music/art and unless you are in the scene or a student its not really a good time.
BTW I'm in Docklands becasue it was the first place to give me an apartment, what a mistake, place is dead after 5:00!
Place is also not great for entrepreneurship and networking. Ad:Tech Melbourne was PATHETIC - 16 booths - I honestly don't know why they even bother.
Easy answer is leave, but unfortunately there are other things keeping me here for the forseable future.
That would be, because australian women tend to start to learn to cook around the age of 28 or so. Go to some aussie bbq's and you'll start to understand that the majority of aussies have no need to eat out all the time.
Not sure about Docklands, but most of australia has great public transportation. Growing up, I was 15 minutes train from a major city, and there was plenty of night life, and great food courts.
Yup, wrong country for that, there are too many government restrictions. Australia isn't about being an entrepreneur, wrong country all together. It's about chilling out, drinking beer, and fucking. And since you're in Melbourne, lotsa drugs and strippers too.
haha, just about to post the same thing.. let me know when dude and I'll join you guys. The crazy russian just needs to get out more...
Don't get me started on the car prices. I was told tonight that Americans can pay 1.9 percent interest on most models of cars and 0% ZERO PERCENT! finance on certain models of Mercedes.
I'm paying somewhere around 11%, which is about average. So not only do we get fucked on the purchase price, we get fucked on the finance. For what I pay per month here, I've been told I could get a 2 year old Aston Martin convertible in the states.
My car isn't bad, but it's no fucking Aston.
Nobody mention house prices or my head will explode..
Are you freakin' kidding me? www.urbanspoon.com is a hit here, as is our own www.eatability.com.au.
You're just a hater mate, go back to Russia!
