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Melbourne is No 1 again....
Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2011 3:22 am
by MarkCDodd
http://www.businessday.com.au/business/best-cities-to-live-20110830-1jj9d.html?rand=1314669119171Take that you second class Sydney people!!!
Are there two cities in the UK that hate each other as much as Sydney and Melbourne in Australia?
Re: Melbourne is No 1 again....
Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2011 4:23 am
by linell
Probably Edinburgh and Glasgow, although I have no idea on the strength of animosity between Sidney and Melbourne
Linell.
Re: Melbourne is No 1 again....
Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2011 8:01 am
by SRD
Manchester Red & Manchester Blue? Glasgow Catholic & Glasgow Protestant? North London & South London? Derry & Londonderry?
Re: Melbourne is No 1 again....
Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2011 3:05 pm
by Stonewaller
Manchester and Liverpool? Sunderland and Newcastle? Southampton and Portsmouth?
Re: Melbourne is No 1 again....
Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2011 5:59 pm
by linell
These replies are football based, I think Mark's question was more broadly based with finance, demographic's and high standards of living being the bar to beat.
Linell.
Re: Melbourne is No 1 again....
Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2011 12:24 am
by MarkCDodd
Alway competing for major events (Olympics, Commonwealth Games etc).
For business' to host their head office.
For the tourism dollar.
Just about everything except football as they play a different code than us. Mind you the Melbourne Storm team did win their Rugby league championship for several years in a row...
Re: Melbourne is No 1 again....
Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2011 12:34 am
by Stonewaller
"Manchester and Liverpool? Sunderland and Newcastle? Southampton and Portsmouth?"
I agree that there is a strong football aspect to these but I think it's more than that. For example, (admittedly this was over 20 years ago) I believe that during a concert in a town between Liverpool and Manchester by The Icicle Works, who were from Liverpool, there was fighting between Scousers and Mancunians.
Regarding Southampton v Portsmouth: the latter's term for the former is said to originate from the breaking of a dockyard strike.