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It's livable. I meant to write it's not lively, which is why I compared it to an elderly home.
Sweden is good up to the age of 18, and when you're retired. It's not ideal if you want to do career. That is my opinion.
It's well known but Americans on this forum might not know how Sweden works. To understand Sweden read this funny article http://www.fika.de/typical-swede.html (broken link)
Born and bread in Melbourne and think it's a great city!!!!!!!!!!
Friendly people, great restaurants serving every type of food you could possibly think of, best shopping scene in Australia, culture, beaches, 4 distinct seasons, great quality of life, only 4 hour flight to Barrier Reef or New Zealand, 1 hour flight to Sydney to see the harbour bridge. San Fransisco reminded us a little of Melbourne when we were there on a holiday. About to relocate to the USA with DH job so very sad to leave beautiful Melbourne!!!!!!!!
Love Melbourne. Best restaurants in the world. Agree with above poster except I think you're getting a bit carried away re the beaches part. It is a wonderful city though. The most under rated city in the world. I rate it the most livable city I've been to for it's size. I like Sydney just not as much as Melbourne. I lived there for a couple of years and wouldn't want to again. It's a great place to spend a weekend though. Auckland didn't do a lot for me. NZ is probably the most beautiful country in the world but if you were going to spend 2 weeks there I wouldn't devote more than a day to Auckland to be honest. The city in Scotland you should be talking about is Edinburgh. Best city in the UK. And one of the best in Europe. A lovely place.
You are seriously considering Melbourne for what.. to migrate or to visit? If to migrate then a whole slew of other variables need to be considered (e.g., do you qualify to migrate, are there jobs in your field, can you live on the average salary for your field...) I've met too many people who migrated to NZ or Oz with blinders on and found that things were better for them back home. Research research research is all I am saying.
Love Melbourne. Best restaurants in the world. Agree with above poster except I think you're getting a bit carried away re the beaches part. It is a wonderful city though. The most under rated city in the world. I rate it the most livable city I've been to for it's size. I like Sydney just not as much as Melbourne. I lived there for a couple of years and wouldn't want to again. It's a great place to spend a weekend though. Auckland didn't do a lot for me. NZ is probably the most beautiful country in the world but if you were going to spend 2 weeks there I wouldn't devote more than a day to Auckland to be honest. The city in Scotland you should be talking about is Edinburgh. Best city in the UK. And one of the best in Europe. A lovely place.
Lol along with the rest of New Zealand south of Auckland
It's livable. I meant to write it's not lively, which is why I compared it to an elderly home.
Sweden is good up to the age of 18, and when you're retired. It's not ideal if you want to do career. That is my opinion.
It's well known but Americans on this forum might not know how Sweden works. To understand Sweden read this funny article What is a typical Swede (http://www.fika.de/typical-swede.html - broken link)
Haha! Fun article! But, uhm, I thought we LOVED queuing?
I was born in Stockholm, so I'll say... Live somewhere else. It's not THAT fun, really, but it's way better than Göteborg
It's clean, as is most of Sweden.
Interesting? Plenty of museums, which I love, but when it comes to shopping, night life and such, then not very interesting. But the rest of Europe is only a few hours away.
More crime there than in most other parts of Sweden, of course, but compared to most other cities that size... not much crime. Atleast not something the "average person" meets everyday.
I don't know what livability means, and I don't have a dictionnary here, so I will skip this one.
Location? In the middle of Sweden (almost), to the east. Built on 13 islands, so plenty of scenery if you like water. If you want to go to the rest of Europe all you have to do is fly for an hour or two or three. Many low price airlainers (or however that is spelt) fly from Arlanda and others in the area. I'd say when it comes ot location, Stockholm is the best.
I haven't been to the other cities listed, so can't say anythign about them really. Though I think Stockholm should be considered before Glasgow. Used to have a friend from there, and he said it was a very gloomy city. Maybe that's why his family moved to Stockholm...
Hope you'll like it whereever you end up!
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I meant to write it's not lively, which is why I compared it to an elderly home. 
Go Melbourne!!!!!!!!!!
