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Good luck - just prey you dont get lumped with a country that's got a lot of cash to bribe. Sounds like sour grapes, but with the AU 2018/2022 bids - I could cope with losing the bid to the USA because it was going to be so geographically diverse across many of the non-big 3 cities and half...

Yes Torotno could, but you really really REALLY need to ask whether you want what amounts to 2 weeks of fame and then 10+ years of hangover thereafter. It's been 12 years since Sydney, and its only really just starting to get its mojo back - this being the supposed financial/banking/"GLOBAL"...

www.cityrail.info

Not sure about Oyster, but my Myki (My-key) experience here in Melbourne: much of the rail system outside the centre of the city / big suburban stations have no barriers and the issue has become a lack of myki machines and queues for people waiting to touch-off at the end of the journey. the...

SNORT. Lost decade for Australia? no only for Sydney! Since the olympics international arrivals (and the sheer number of airlines) has grown by 13% in Melbourne, 15% in Brisbane and............... Sydney has languished in the low single digits. Sydney's still the largest tourism drawcard...

A devalued USD = not the best news for Canada specifically as many manufacturing jobs could be driven back across the 49th parallel.

interesting stats... we've just got the most recent data for population and PT usage in the past week for Melbourne... Total trips in 2010 was 504,300,000 (broken down: train 226.6 mil, tram: 176.5 mil, Bus: 101.2 mil) and Melbourne's now over 4 million - 4,077,000 or 123 trips per capita...

Not limited to "subways" (As there's only 3 stations that are underground!) but all of Melbourne's rail lines - metro trains and trams: http://www.railmaps.com.au/melbourn.png (huge image).

fair point, granted. It's the same with Australia and Asia, but at some point you get sick of it - there's a much bigger world beyond the North Atlantic!

ok, with all due respect, where the FREAKING HELL have you people been? (pardon pun) It has never been cheaper to fly to Australia than ever before. Before V Australia and Delta started flying across the pacific 12 months ago, an economy return ticket was ~$2500. Today? Cheap...

The latest campaign (most recent major one since LAra Bingle's Where the bloody hell are you? campaign) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82n1PX1hVEY Less of Sydney, Melbourne finally gets a look in, but still fkn cringeworthy.

mind if I ask what you meant by segregation in Melbourne?

funny that this appeared over the weekend... http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/sydney-worstplanned-city-in-australia-20100613-y64m.html SYDNEY'S strategic metropolitan planning is the worst of Australia's major capital cities, leaving it exposed to a lack of federal government funding for...

NSW's problems lie in the fact politics up there has been, during the Howard years, so focused on the federal level - all the Liberal and Labor talent went to Canberra, and nothing's left at the state level. It's the same old ALP changing its leader every 18 months, and the Liberal opposition...

Manchester definitely, if you stay for a few days, you can easily do a day trip to Liverpool to have a look around. likewise Edinburgh & Glasgow.

They're just as you said "trains" :) Classification is what you North Americans do best (i.e this thread :)) - no need to confuse anyone! Seriously though, Sydney's had about 3 different proposals for a "metro" which would be completely separate from the existing CityRail network - fully...

don't have any specific pension tax, because everyone earns superannuation which is on top of your gross wage. i.e the examples have been $40k p/a. If you earned that in Australia, you'd actually have a package of $43,900 - because the extra 9% is your mandatory superannuation contributions...

holy sh!tcakes, I actually pay less tax than someone from NY / ON? Australia-wide (income tax is federal - doesn't exist at a state level): Gross Monthly Earnings: $3,333.00 Tax Applicable: $503.00 Less Tax offsets: $0.00 Less Medicare Levy Adjustment: $0.00 [*** if you earn over $50k and...

I reckon it's hilarious ;) it's worse in Australia!

good choice of glazing for the Bay Adelaide Tower.