Pros and Cons of Living in Sydney

Pros:

1. Great coffee (flat whites).
2. Great weather (once summer comes).
3. Surpisingly efficient medical system.
4. Great mid-range dining.
5. The concept of 'BYO' - you can bring a decent bottle of red to the restaurant with you.

Cons:

1. The train system.
2. Crossing the street - it's *so* much harder than in London.
3. Crap radio.
4. Crap newspapers.
5. Crap TV.
6. Shocking roads.
7. Antediluvian licensing laws (can't buy alcohol in a supermarket).

In summary - different to, but not better than, London.

Then move to London 🙄

Originally posted by ivangrice
Cons:

1. The train system.
2. Crossing the street - it's *so* much harder than in London.
3. Crap rad 't buy alcohol in a supermarket).

In summary - different to, but not better than, London.

Originally posted by ElleEffSeee
Then move to London 🙄

Originally posted by dottewell
Cons

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Originally posted by ivangrice
Er...I just moved *from* London.

I'd put one of those googly-eyed smiley icons in here, but that would be extremely patronising, don't you think?

Thank God I'm not the sort of a-hole that would do that...

Originally posted by ElleEffSeee
Then move somewhere else 😕

Ivan, why'd you move to Sydney? Work, I assume?

Originally posted by darvlay
Ivan, why'd you move to Sydney? Work, I assume?

Originally posted by ivangrice
My wife (who's Australian) wants to be nearer her family; she's not really seen them for getting on for ten years.

And we want to have kids who will speak Cantonese (my wife's parents are originally from Hainan/Hong Kong).

Cons: User 59420

Edit: Sorry, really had to vent, that's been building up for months.

Originally posted by darvlay
Do they call their Daddy Gwei Lo?

Kidding.

But seriously, I didn't realize there was a big Cantonese contingent in Sydney.

Originally posted by ivangrice
Why? Re-read my original post.

I know you support Liverpool, but there's no need to exhibit all the pikey characteristics of that benighted place.

Originally posted by ivangrice
7. Antediluvian licensing laws (can't buy alcohol in a supermarket).

Originally posted by orfeo
Really? I'm in Canberra not Sydney, but my local supermarket has plenty of alcohol available for sale.

In some supermarkets the alcohol section is sort of a 'shop within a shop' (Woolworths seems to like this idea, but I've seen it with Coles as well), but that's hardly an impediment to buying it.