Talking Footy

Melbourne has topped The Economist's liveability rankings for a fifth consecutive year.
But planning experts have warned that, while the liveability rankings were "marketing nirvana", they were meaningless for much of Melbourne, and got in the way of improving the city.
And a social services group said the ranking failed to recognise the growing disparity between those rich enough to live where good jobs and services were, and those in areas of high unemployment, poor transport and entrenched disadvantage.
Australian cities were found to be "a relative picture of stability", while 20 per cent of the cities surveyed by The Economist magazine's Intelligence Unit experienced declines in liveability over the past year.
Melbourne was ranked the world's most liveable city, Adelaide fifth, Sydney seventh, Perth eighth and Brisbane 18th. None of these cities saw their ranks change in this year's report.
The most liveable cities in the world were Melbourne, Vienna, Vancouver, Toronto, Adelaide and Calgary.


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Bump and basement dwellers going to comment!
Old shitney being over taken by Adelaide as a more liveable city!

Shitney has the bridge, the harbour the operah house! What about the rest of the dump?

leagueiscrap wrote:

Bump and basement dwellers going to comment!
Old shitney being over taken by Adelaide as a more liveable city!

Shitney has the bridge, the harbour the operah house! What about the rest of the dump?

Deep derp

the usual shitney loving basement dwelling NRLOL crew keep missing this thread

am suddenly feeling all breathless with excitement at the news from the Deep South this morning, that "a sky high tourist walk will be built above the roof of the MCG in a world-first stadium experience at Australia's greatest ground.
"Fans will be able to climb up to 70m above the home of sport to take in breathtaking views of the iconic ground, Melbourne's world-class sporting precinct and the city skyline for the first time."
A walk at the top of a piece of major infrastructure to take in your city in all its glory?
Geez, why didn't we folk in Sydney think of that? It would be fabulous and ... and hang on, now I remember.
We DID think of that!
As a matter of fact, we came up with it about 20 years ago, and the walk to the top of the "Old Man", the "Coat Hanger", the Sydney Harbour Bridge, has been a stunning success ever since.

Ah, but Melbourne is aware of that, and says it has us covered, bringing us to my favourite line of all in the Herald-Sun report:
"The MCG rooftop trek is said to be a rival for Sydney's Harbour Bridge walk ... "
Waiter!!! More oxygen, and some antidepressants, please, for now these bastards have really got us worried.
Or ... maybe not.
After all, look at it.
I mean, really, look at it!
For, of course, from the peak of the Bridge, the splendid vista lies before you, starting with what Captain Arthur Phillip described as "the finest harbour in the world, in which a thousand sail of the line may ride in the most perfect security ... "
Melbourne's equivalent, of course, is the Yarra River. But can we be frank here?
As I have said before, if Sydney Harbour ever needed to take a pee, it would end up looking very like the Yarra - and a similarly unfavourable comparison might be made of our two metropolii.
At the Ball of the World's Great Cities, we all know that Melbourne - if it managed to gate-crash - would be a wallflower all night long while Sydney would be danced off its feet!
Yup, as the band plays Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy from Company B and Last Waltz, we'll be beating New York, London and Paris off with a stick, while the best Melbourne could hope for would be to have a twirl with Los Angeles, Vancouver and Liverpool - and even then, only if they had their beer goggles on, but ...
But what?
You Victorians insist that a city is composed of much more than its natural features, and many other factors come into play?
You're right. And I want to acknowledge again that Melbourne really does have a climate that is the envy of people living in southern Tassie, for starters.
And it does have some extraordinary buildings.
But, Melbourne, can we be serious once more?
When we in Sydney are on the top of our Bridge, the most arresting building before us is the Sydney Opera House which Time magazine recently had on its cover for a story on the 100 Most Extraordinary Buildings in the World.
Now, I am not positive if you stood on your tippy-toes on the top of the MCG, you could see Federation Square, but even if you could - and I mean this as serious question - would you actually bother?
Still, Victorian Sports Minister John Eren is not at all worried about that and insists that the MCG walk "is very much about showcasing our wonderful precinct and this will go a long way to making sure not only locals enjoy this iconic ground from a different perspective but interstate and overseas visitors".
Minister Eren, please.
After those international visitors get to Sydney first, and they mostly do, they inevitably come to realise the truth of the words of Paul Keating: "If you're not living in Sydney, you're really just camping out."
And I think that's your best hope. Grow some vines on your walkway, and sell it as "glamping", as in glamorous camping. Put some swish caravans in that park by the MCG, and you might get away with it.
But don't EVER try to take us on, in a one-on-one city thing.
Anyhoo, have to dash. We're off shortly, to the Ball of the World's Great Cities.


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the usual crap from the insecure flogs from shitney

Lol .
A vicderpian jealously posting about Sydney
& then calls Sydney people insecure .

Oh my .

AFLcrap1 wrote:

Lol .
A vicderpian jealously posting about Sydney
& then calls Sydney people insecure .

Oh my .

Lol no reek of shit, just pointing out the insecurity of you bum sniffers & shitney siders in general, once you get past the harbour bridge and opera house they quickly run out of things to talk about!

You are too stupid to see the hypocrisy .

The_Wookie wrote:

this forum is starting to resemble a LIC brain collapse

Read the article flog, the MCG announce its going to have walks on the top of the stands, then the typical insecure tugby flog with a chip on shoulder is hurt and needs to attempt to pump up Sydney!

Who cares which city thinks it's better, I don't give a rats as I live in neither, bloody idiots.

The_Wookie wrote:

leagueiscrap wrote:

The_Wookie wrote:

this forum is starting to resemble a LIC brain collapse

Read the article flog, the MCG announce its going to have walks on the top of the stands, then the typical insecure tugby flog with a chip on shoulder is hurt and needs to attempt to pump up Sydney!

I did read the article. Some pointless wanker had something to say about some bullshit and then you trot it out like its holy writ.

Yep in should have known better after all its all lies lies lies

leagueiscrap wrote:

The_Wookie wrote:

leagueiscrap wrote:

The_Wookie wrote:

this forum is starting to resemble a LIC brain collapse

Read the article flog, the MCG announce its going to have walks on the top of the stands, then the typical insecure tugby flog with a chip on shoulder is hurt and needs to attempt to pump up Sydney!

I did read the article. Some pointless wanker had something to say about some bullshit and then you trot it out like its holy writ.

Yep in should have known better after all its all lies lies lies

I shouldn't laugh .
Mum always told me not to laugh at the less fortunate .

As far as I'm concerned, we live in the best place on Earth anyway, who gives a crap, let's be happy for where we are, not like to poor other sods stuck in a war torn country with weird Ebola like stuff around or waiting for a poisonous mosquito to kill you or your unborn child.

Anyway, the news isn't telling us the truth, just propaganda hidden between entertainment and sports reports.

Can I have a Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay sheeple?

Sydney has the M4 and lockouts woo hoo