Brits' Opinions on Australia: Sydney, Melbourne, and Tasmania Compared

We are a British couple who moved to America (Las Vegas) who have recently travlled to Australia and thought we would give our honest opions on the locations we visited

We are back!

Now we have been to Australia we thought we would do some follow up videos, sharing what we thought about Australia as a place to potentially live.

We are going to do a video on our ultimate opinion on whether we would choose to move there but first we thought we share things we learnt, what we liked, didn’t like, what was as expected or different about the places we visited.

Everything we are going to say is based on being there for only 2 weeks, spending 9 nights in Melbourne, 2 nights in Hobart and 1 night in Sydney.

We are going to talk about what we thought of each city…

We realized that everyone that has been to Australia has varied opinion on where they like. We met people that prefer Melbourne and others that prefer Sydney.

Melbourne:

• Culture/ Lifestyle:
o Diverse, multicultural – lots of Asian and Indians
o Ant liked the architecture – wide variety of style from European, Victorian to contempary
o Melbourne not really busy, not in comparison to other cities – heard it was busier before the pandemic
o Nice blend of being a city, and having local beaches, access to wineries within an hours

• Food: We were told by everyone that it is a great place for food, and we would agree. Lots of great food options, from Breakfast to Dinner, and Coffee
o Surprisingly generous in their portions!
o Price: Food much cheaper than US
Paying at Restaurants was different – casual food was often paid at the counter versus the more fancy places where they bring the card reader and you pay at the table
Tips are not expected
Surcharge is common for paying with cards, and eating at weekends and on bank holidays.
• Transport:
o Driving in Melbourne was a bit confusing
o Public transport: CBD was a great spot to stay with tram system – really liked it. Was free and easy to use.
• Weather :
o is here there and everywhere – hot, cold, wet, grey

Coffee: this could have its own video
• Coffee was amazing!
• We never had a bad coffee. I even had great coffee at the hospital.
• However there were some differences and we had to learn how to order coffee
• We learnt coffee is very customizable.
• You have all the standards, latte, flat white, cappucine, espresso. They also have a piccolo which we had not heard of before.
• Coffee would come out not that strong and barely warm.
o We learnt you had to order cappacini “strong” and hot

Tassie: Hobart
• Every said how nice it is
• It is very scenic there. We stayed in one of the nicest hotel with the best views we ever had.
• Hobart was great for cocktails, gin, food
• We were lucky with the weather
• A great place to visit

Sydney:
• Culture: hard to express as we were only there for a day
o Beach attire, everyone ready to workout, keep fit
o Hanging out at coffee shops/ bars
o Outdoorsy
o social
o Nothing like Melbourne
• Food:
o Cant comment as we were not there long enough but seemed like lots of options.
o Good coffee
• Transport:
o Lots More traffic
o Good Public transport
o Have commuter ferrys – we used this to go to one of the bays. Watsons bay.
• Weather:
o felt different
o More humid
• Saw spiders

Australia general:
• Language – more like how we speak, lots of abbreviations, brekky, tassie. Did not need to adjust how we speak
• People more like us
• Safety
• Social outlook more seemingly similar to UK


We really enjoyed our trip and would happily return. As for whether we would choose to live there. We are going to save that for our next video.

Thanks for watching