Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
I spent 6 months there four years ago and on the whole, i found it to be a very average city. For it's size it has poor shopping, a less than sensational theatre scene, only 1 or 2 good museums and it just lacked that buzz that you get from places like NY, Paris or London.
Yes, it has a very nice harbour and a few decent beaches (although i've never understood why people go to cities for the beaches and especially in a country like Oz, which has far superior ones elsewhere) but overall it felt a bit soulless to me - although Australia in general felt like a country still in the construction process.
Probably Dubai, unless you're a Post-Modern architecture buff and love skyscrapers.
Other than that, there's not much to the place and so much is still under construction.
Add to that the extreme high humidity mixed with the extreme heat, the extreme intensity of the Sun and the very obvious signs that you're in some desert that were it not for modern technology, there's no way millions of people would live there.
Singapore is having some issues now with the number of foreigners coming in to work there. Seems that Singaporeans are being laid off so that foreign managers can bring in their friends and colleagues from back home. I can see some restrictions coming along soon to rectify this issue.
I spent 6 months there four years ago and on the whole, i found it to be a very average city. For it's size it has poor shopping, a less than sensational theatre scene, only 1 or 2 good museums and it just lacked that buzz that you get from places like NY, Paris or London.
To be fair, Sydney is not nearly as big as New York, Paris or London. I think Sydney is like a lot of cities that have fallen victim to marketing hype that makes them seem more larger than life than they really are.
(The same thing has also happened to San Francisco in the U.S. and Vancouver in Canada, for example. They are nice cities, but do they compare to the world's top cities? No, I don't think so!)
Last edited by BigCityDreamer; 11-13-2011 at 03:56 PM..
The beautiful Altay, was honored as “Jinshan” since old times, deep Tibet in the interior center,
is beautiful and is mystical. Here wild mountains and plains water there is no place is not
picturesque, when during you walk, you will comprehend tranquilly, beautiful, harmonious will be
truly the humanity best dwell. In here, you will feel the life has integrated naturally to one kind
calm indifferent to fame or gain.[mod]No advertising allowed.[/mod]
Last edited by Vichel; 11-16-2011 at 10:37 PM..
Reason: Advertising
Please register to post and access all features of our very popular forum. It is free and quick. Over $68,000 in prizes has already been given out to active posters on our forum. Additional giveaways are planned.
Detailed information about all U.S. cities, counties, and zip codes on our site: City-data.com.