Cities in Canada and Australia are the most liveable in the world

I limit my puking in the bathroom to once in my life

and by now i know how much i can easy drink i can still stay out all night and have fun without all the other things i did when i was 17.

to bad I dont do this this often anymore.

and having a nice age mix in a town shows a high level of quality of life, doesen't it?

I have never been to a foamparty, and not worried that i missed out but well would go anyway.

what is not decent in going out having a beer or a nice glass of wine dressed in smart clothes, or smart casual.

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what is not decent in going out having a beer or a nice glass of wine dressed in smart clothes, or smart casual.

... next thing you tell me is that you go to nightclubs for having nice conversations.

These 'quality of life' surveys never seem to consider affordability..

Check out this affordability survey which covers Australia, Canada, Republic of Ireland,
New Zealand, United Kingdom, United States. It relates average house prices to average income.

Australia has 8 of the top 20 most unaffordable cities/towns! A rating of 5.1 or over is considered severely unaffordable!

1 Sunshine Coast, QLD 9.6
3 Gold Coast, QLD-NSW 8.7
5 Sydney, NSW 8.3
10 Bundaberg, QLD 7.2
12 Adelaide, SA 7.1
12 Melbourne, VIC 7.1
14 Mandurah, WA 7.0
19 Wollongong, NSW 6.8

(For the full ratings list, see page 12 of the .pdf below)

[COLOR=blue]5th Annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey: 2009[/COLOR]

Vienna is number 4

What a joke! Not for all the money in the world I would like to live there...

Hi Evan,

yes, you do not seem to like Sydney somehow... . Also, you may have been living in Germany for too long, judging by the whining ;).

The Aussi thing to say/ do would be "if you don't like it, don't life there or go there. Out and over". I find such approach compellingly convincing and quite effective.

Cheers
Hannes

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... next thing you tell me is that you go to nightclubs for having nice conversations.

it would've been too hard to figure out these 3 words in English, huh?

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it would've been too hard to figure out these 3 words in English, huh?

youre right, but normaly there only two words for you but.............

i better shut my mouth

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Hallo Bunyip Bluegum,

wie sehr man diesen surveys trauen kann, zeigt sich am Beispiel Mandurah.

Mandurah ist eine Stadt im Süden von Perth und findet sich auf dieser Liste nur, weil es dort eine ganze Reihe von Immobilien gibt, die sich Otto Normalverbraucher nie nicht leisten könnte.
Die Kanäle die dort gebaut wurden, sind mit Prunkvillen nur so gespickt.

Jetzt mal ganz abgesehen davon, daß ich persönlich nicht in Mandurah wohnen möchte, man kann dort genau so billig leben wie in Perth oder Albany.
Es gibt nämlich auch genug andere Häuser, die bezahlbar sind. Und die Supermärkte verkaufen zum selben Preis wie anderswo.

Is English no longer being spoken in Albanien, äh Albany?

Cheers
Hannes

No worries

I can understand most of the German that I read, but just can't write good German yet..

Regarding Mandurah - the survey is just the average house prices compared to the average wages.. so I think in this case lots of wealthy Perth people have expensive holiday/weekend houses there, but the local wages are maybe relatively low. So yeah it's true that surveys shouldn't be taken on face value.

Cheers,

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Hi Evan,

yes, you do not seem to like Sydney somehow... . Also, you may have been living in Germany for too long, judging by the whining ;).

The Aussi thing to say/ do would be "if you don't like it, don't life there or go there. Out and over". I find such approach compellingly convincing and quite effective.

Cheers
Hannes

Maybe you're right! Perhaps after nearly 4 years I'm becoming a real Schwaber.

There's a saying here that if a Schwaber doesn't complain, then you should take it as a compliment!

I did, in fact, 'vote with my feet' and leave. I think you'll find that many Australians are quite critical of Sydney.. it's only in the last 20 years that it's really exploded into an overpriced shitfight, and many many people (including my family) moved out. Somehow the 'big city culture' has traditionally never really been part of the Australian psyche, whereas many European cities are deeply ingrained into the culture. For example, what is France without Paris? Or Italy without Rome? Sydney has only recently become important/famous.

But it's still a shithole

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It is not difficult to say: "Love you"

yeah youre right but...... its should be "I Love You" then its not only 2 words