Sydney: Inside Australia's Suburbs | The Greatest Cities in the World | TRACKS
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- Griff visits Sydney, not the capital but the dominating metropolis of Australia, and its first city since that nation's foundation from a fabulous natural harbor as British penal colony, named after its first governor.
It developed into an affluent, suburban society, considered one of the most pleasant cities in the world. Griff experiences many positive aspects and the local, immigrated and commuting Aussies' taste for sports and gambling.
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This video is about 10 years old and the city has changed a lot since then. Also the places visited are probably the most expensive suburbs in the southern hemisphere. As beautiful as my home town is, this is the life of about 1 % of sydneysiders
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@@matthewlester3820 Facts?
@@matthewlester3820 Str8 up fakts
Im not sure about the 1% I agree with the other two comments, but these places are lousy in comparrison with many other places in Sydney, I still find it amazing though - scratch any one and they will be friendly - no matter where they are from.
@@iangrantham8300 where is more expensive than bondi?
This is by far the best video of Sydney I've seen. Thank you for this beautiful documentary
Thank you for this video, I enjoyed it. Learnt a few things I didn't know, went with you (virtually) to a few places around Sydney I'd never been and enjoyed your positive perspective on Sydney, NSW, Australia. I love the parts of Sydney that I know too. Lived in Sydney for 39 years, enjoying the not too cold winters and the balmy days of Spring and early Summer and the more relaxed vibe of the Northern Beaches of Sydney. I did ordinary jobs, always rented but reasonably managed to live & survive in the pleasant surroundings of the beachside suburbs of Manly up to Newport say. I live in the country now and miss the cosmopolitan lifestyle and the sea breezes.
I’m proud to have lived in Sydney for all my 75 years. I’ve travelled all over the world but wouldn’t live anywhere else. Sydney is such a beautiful city…the Harbour is just breathtaking, the beaches are wonderful. What a lifestyle. Even if you live in the western suburbs ( where I have lived) the lifestyle is terrific…close for a drive to our wonderful Blue Mountains or a one hour trip in the train to the beach or the harbour. It’s free to all. This was a wonderful documentary!
And…the weather is just perfect!
Are You Australian?
@@thex2051 she says she's lived there all her life - I think the answer is pretty obvious..... 🤷🏻♀️
@@ashotofmercury Agh let me Talk to her
Blue mountains and Western suburbs have so much to offer.
Beautiful rivers with sandy beaches. Yes you just need to know where to look.
Amazing mountain Vistas,
Modern towns
Smaller villages
Festivals, growers markets, craft markets,
Precincts of river/ mountain side cafes, pubs, accommodation, wineries, river boats,...fauna and flora aplenty. And lower prices for all this and more.
@@happytraveller2122 how do i get to Australia i really wish to live del pls guard me on it am from Africa
I’m from Sydney. Most Sydney residents spend most of there life slaving for barely enough money to get by. So People who live here don’t have that great of a life or get to enjoy all the good things sydney have to offer
80s into the early 90s Sydney had the best standard of living in the Western World. Now if you are just starting off it way too expensive .
@Solitary confirmed Shitzophrenic you think immigrants can afford these over priced houses? even rich chinese are complaining about the housing price now.
@Solitary confirmed Shitzophrenic Lets just forgot about those super rich, even chinese milionaires cant afford these compare to 10 or even 20 year ago.
i dont really think only chinese brought their money over to Australia, just look at the price in north beaches, chinese rarely go there. European and american super rich also move to sydney, BTW i live in Hills District, its almost unaffordable for most middle class, that include chinese milionaires, i cant imagery how local people think about it, getting paid 50k after tax and the price for single house is over a million, up to 1.5 millions. the people you mention cant even make a living in west sydney.
BTW nobody is loyal to ccp, they just loyal to money, as soon as the party found out they are corrupted, they flee to Australia and Canada then they become anti china chinese, with all the dirty money from china. Honest people like us are dying, thanks to those super rich, not only chinese super rich, but they are one who got targeted.
@Solitary confirmed Shitzophrenic No matter how bad the relationship between nations business will never stop, Media will just ignore it because the government and these mega corp said so.
To be honest i dont think this country has future, they already sold their future, even im immigrants myself the whole point of moving here is to get away from asian mentally and life style, if Australia become Asia i rather go back to where i came from.
And we have to face real problem such as low wages and high living cost, and unaffordable real estate, like you said an avg middle working class can not afford a house compare to 15 years ago. soon we cant afford a 2 bedroom apartment. younger generation are already stuck with their parent because the renting cost so much. their kids probably end up in basement.
taxes 3 times more
I first visited Sydney in 1978 and simply loved it. I've watched her and the lovely people evolve through the decades and hope to return often.
its full of asians now
@@jakewalklate6226 chinx mostly - the locusts have taken over the world. (vis covid)
You’re always welcome to return. 👍
I lived in Sydney some 20 years ago now. Lived in Bondy, Coogy, Neutral Bay, Woloomolloo too. Loved my time there. ❤❤But as someone mentioned below, life got ordinary... work, bills etc 😂😂. But I always appreciated ferry rides to CBD or my jogs from work across Harbour Bridge back home... could not afford both journey by ferry twice a day. It felt super far from Europe, where I come from and at times lonely too. Anyhow, got many fond memories and I am glad I had this experience.
Can you get a home in the Sydney area for around about $200,000?
Thanks
"Inside Australia's Suburbs", hops into a chopper and goes shark spotting...
then takes aquatic aircraft up the river to view indigenous rock art.
Lol
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What I adore about Griff is his amazing way he enunciates he can make you buckle with just the way he sez it, him and Michael Palin, i noticed that at a very young age watching Not the 9 O'clock news, and Python, comedy royalty.
Love ❤️ Sydney!! Lived here for 30 yrs now. Thank u so much for sharing this beautiful video 🎉🎉
I was there last week and in my opinion, , it's one of the most beautiful cities in the world..
NOT an accurate depiction of sydney suburbs, most people dont live that close to the beach
I do
Gavin McInnes you’re one person in a giant city congratulations
Don't we all live at Bondi beach?
@Billy with the boys still even in more affluent suburbs they dont live like that
@@zyawotha who would want to? Dirty, druggy streets, kilometres from anywhere, and not a particularly nice beach by any stretch of the imagination. Full of idiotic tourists, thinking this 'is' Australia. 10,000kms of beaches yet they all aim for Grotty stick in the 1960s Bondi.
Definitely about Sydney but not about the suburbs
its about the eastern suburbs *eyeroll* most people live in the west
Wait till they see Western Sydney lol
@@gizmomac1520 😱🤭😀
Parramatta is the real Sydney, Future CBD
I'm a NZer,lived there for 4 yrs.Its easily the most beautiful city on earth.
I miss it and want to go back,badly.
Hey
essentially just the rich areas of sydney. 90% of sydneysiders don't see any of this.
Actually its probably only around 55%, and that's not including all the lucky tradies who get to come in every day to enjoy the view from our rooftops and decks 😂😂😂😂
@@alexmedak9808 jau du iu spel arsjol ?....
indeed most of sydney is a shithole and competitive
@@gobblelevclass3nuclearsubm393 ......well....the world would
like to spend this pandemic with us in this "shithole" .....
@@darioburatovich2240then they are idiots
Thank you, this made my evening!! Loved Sydney in 2010 when I had the opportunity to visit Down Under. 🌅
I performed at Sydney opera house with the vienna boys choir in the year 2000. The concert hall is HUGE
An incredible city Sydney. Always love a trip there
You forgot to mention some of Sydney's best suburbs: Auburn, Blacktown, Lakemba, go check those places out!
Doonside and Minto are pretty good too.
@@glenemma1 Can’t forget Mt Druitt and Penrith
@@lukecasey3480 Thanks Luke, I'll take your advice. Someone else told me it's best to spend some time there at night, walk around the streets etc. to really get a feel of the place. I have only been to Minto and Doonside during the day to photograph the sights.
My aim is to spend a couple of weeks in each place to really absorb the atmosphere.
It's like London. People think it is all tea with the queen and shopping in Harrods, but there are a lot of no go areas, just the same.
Lakemba,Minto,Marrickville, Campbelltown,Liverpool.,etc...that is the REAL Australia, where REAL lives are lived.
Superb documentary. I'd love to visit Australia someday.
Its kinda boring imo
Should do a south western sydney version of this doco. *yella Habib! starts blaring horn in traffic*
Amazing place
Don't believe the hype. Most Sydneysiders spend their weekday morning commuting in trains, buses or, god help them, the car. Hardly anyone can afford to live near the beach. This is like selling a doco of London pretending everyone starts their day with a walk along the Thames
Hardly, I live in the Eastern suburbs and everyone gets up and swims. Your description fits the Western suburbs. The thing is, in the East you live somewhere old and small, but get the beach, whereas in the West you will live somewhere new, maybe a house, and pay less for rent/mortgage but pay more for commuting in time, money and stress. Most people in the East don't own a car, the beach is their gym, socialising is free.... so the cost of living ends up the same.
@@cumoreview442 it's a big city mate, small coast. Take a look at a population map of Sydney. Good luck to you living in the eastern suburbs but what if we tried to fit 5 million people (metro Sydney population) there? The fact is, most of Sydney is not the coast.
not really mate Sydneys population density is nowhere near that of other major citys around the world -alot of people choose to live out west because they want big expensive houses
@@samueldunn5879 People moving out further to buy larger houses is certainly true of some of the outer suburbs but not all. Irrespective, my point was that this documentary creates an unrealistic picture of the lives of the majority of Sydneysiders. The simple truth is that of the roughly 5M inhabitants, most do not start the day with an ocean swim. Yes, some do. Most don't. That's all I'm saying. And yes, I realise our population density is not on the same scale as many other cities around the world. That doesn't change the inaccuracy of this documentary. Cheers
@@cumoreview442 "the beach is their gym, socialising is free " sounds interesting :)
What's the deal with half the people on this comments section bagging this documentary because it doesn't paint a "realistic" portrait of Sydney. Of course it doesn't. It's a positive documentary that seeks to advertise Sydney by highlighting the best parts of it. What, if you don't mind my asking, is wrong with that? If you want to watch a documentary on the poverty and squalor that is found in western Sydney, tune in to Four Corners on the ABC.
Nice One, Griff. Thanks, TRACKS. This is a really interesting view of Sydney. Beautiful.
I really wish there was content on working class western suburbs far from the beach. I know its not the most in demand but at least its the real ordinary life
Although that’s not to say there’s still a lot of stuff to do, and conditions are improving
Nothing beautiful out west, just housing estates and the odd maccas , boring
@@kev9385 and bogans
@@belleparker2046
Lakemba is kinda like the middle east.
Western Sydney sucks balls big time, nothing interesting about bogans and other lazy people who live on welfare
I remember watched BEAUTY AND THE BEAST IN CAPITOL THEATER AND FERRIED TO TARONGA ZOO AND MANY MORE WITH MY DAUGHTER OOPS ICONIC SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE HARBOR BRIDGE last August2023 ill be back Love Aussie❤
Thank you for the scenic shots, its not every day that Sydneysiders get that view of their own town and its beautiful harbour, most only see it from the ground covered in skyscrapers. Or at a distance on a hill out west. 👍
Best city on earth, it's good and bad is what makes it what it is. I know it's not for everyone, but being born and raised in Sydney, and having lived and travelled all over the world - Sydney has elements of all great cities of the world from our grungy inner city, to our opulent harbour side suburbs, to our cultural diversity bringing almost any food (at least as good and sometimes better than from where they originated), and our beaches, parks etc. That's my opinion, if you don't like it I have others 😀
Beautiful, beautiful Sydney.
8:13 beautiful view of Sydney. What a great shot.
There’s good and bad in every major city… Sydney is beautiful, we’re a major city with beaches and water nearby. Our city she sparkles, it has become one of the most expensive locations but she’s still highly desired. There’s so much to do if you’re adventurous and out going, you can always stay in.
I hate how documentaries like this only look at the areas so close to the water. Sydney is a city of 5 million people, the city extends over 40km away from the coast. Most people don't live that close to the water.
But that is the worst part of Australia. Rather live in Larrimah
48tilt can you make a documentary about Larrimah and put it up on TH-cam?
@@paulsz6194 Plenty of them . Look it up.
48tilt I was actually hoping of seeing one with You in it...
Yea! This video was posted on my birthday!
There is nothing 'typical' about this experience of Sydney.
It's Sydney city,it can be nothing but typical.
Literally
The hard working beer and rum workers aren't a dying breed they are stronger than ever
This has given me a boost of enjoyment for the city. I’m Melbourne bound; I’m Melbourne everything. I’d like to see this guy give Melbourne the same treatment. I think it’d make an interesting parallel with this excellent video.
Like most of the world's big cities, Sydney is a fantastic place to live IF you have a lot of money. Average house price is $1 million. A house near the beach is double that. A house on the waterfront is $5 million +
3 bed home in chatswood 4 milion now ) 1 bed apartment sold $925000
This video is about 11 years old. Alot has changed since then. Also the places visited are the most expensive suburbs in the world. As beautiful as my home city is, this is the life of about 2% of Sydneysiders
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@@ashotofmercury meow
Classic Pom. Only obsessed with the beach and anything they can claim as English. Believe it or not there’s more to Sydney than Bondi and The Rocks.
Not gonna do a documentary about Parramatta are they
How about Bankstown 🤣🤣
The Rocks is the most interesting
@@jamesgordon9842 no not Parramatta I think it's going to be Punchbowl!
Yes poverty and crime
What a beautiful city. Some of this photography is nothing short of incredible.
Sydney houses are expensive. The mansions on Sydney Harbour cost in excess of 10 million.
You forgot to mention some of Sydney's best suburbs: Auburn, Blacktown, Lakemba, go check those places out! . Thx
It is impossible to sum up all Sydney's sites or influences in a short documentary but I thought it was a much better cross section than many other attempts have been and I love Griff's commentary. No, I don't live somewhere that has a sea or river view but I live somewhere where there is a vista of gum and other native trees and wake to the sound of the kookaburras, magpies and cockatoos in downtown suburbia in this major city.
True and well said. Sydney is a mish-mash of everything which makes it easy to live in and enjoy. Good food choices, clean, great coffee, plentiful parks, beautiful beaches, interesting architecture that changes between suburbs and plenty of massage places.
WOW , SYDNEY IS SO LOVELY !!!
Most beautiful documentary on a city I've ever seen. I'll live there someday
It's not really like this mate.
This is a better view of "real" Sydney ... th-cam.com/video/jcd2JCFQl48/w-d-xo.html
I live in Sydney and it really is like this, you just have to live in the expensive parts :P
Came to watch this doco and ended up watching the full episode of Struggle Street S01E01
. Both are Sydney, just different parts of the city.
The traffic sucks 😂 and I hope your extremely rich. Not all of Sydney is like this ahhaa
Talks about Sydney's suburbs.
Misses all of Greater Western Sydney.
Western Sydney is where most Sydneysiders live, larger than the harbour city and is where the real character is at. It comprises the Inner West like Chatswood, Burwood, Strathfield, Rhodes, Meadowbank, Macquarie, Rhyde Bankstown (bit further out), the second Central Business district of Parramatta, the Southwest including Liverpool, Campbeltown, the direct west like Blacktown, Rousehill the far west like Penrith, and even further west like the Blue Mountains and Katoomba. There's north west where with the hills and hills that stack on top of more hills like Castle Hills, Baulkham Hills, Hornsby Galston, Etc.
Sydney is the largest city in Australia, with a population of 5 million people, and the suburbs are large, populated and diverse. The city is planning to create a third CBD at Badgery's Creek to house the new international airport.
It's not all sunshine and beaches but it is home.
Christopher Tong 湯學榮 we don’t want to embarrass Sydney by showing the world the western suburbs
Dude, Chatswood is not in the Inner West 😆
@@alexwain yea it was gonna say. Chatswood, inner west? quick glance on the map shows north. zz
are you training to be wikipedia one day or something?
What I love about Sydney is it is only a 2 hour flight away from here in Adelaide. I only go there when I want to go there - which is often.
what do you do when you come here
@@sydneyslosttapes2406 I love the CBD and Rocks. Always on foot. Learn all the side streets - day and night. Admiring the old unwanted areas, looking at the beautiful masonry. The trees, the paving, the old shops. I'm in awe.
I think Adelaide deserves its own documentary. Been there a few times and it’s not only beautiful but easier than Sydney to move around. I would move there if I need to.
Go Sydney!
Shame you didn't get to see the western suburbs of Syd, you may have second thoughts about the place.
😂😂
He missed AUBURN, BANSTOWN BELT
sunny lucky that would send shivers down the poor buggers spine hahaaha
@@DaMJfadeaway sorry I forgot to mention "Lakemba". You walk around and its looks like Afghanistan.
No I am not joking
That was snobbery.
Awesome. wish i could visit to Sydney someday. Greetings from the Philippines!
Sydney is massive, 12000km2, the harbour front is only about 5% of the city, the rest is congested roads
Love the bridge 😍
Yeah Sydney!!!
I've been living in Sydney since 1977 after moving here from Lebanon and I've never left Australia
Do you blame me it's the most beautiful country on Earth
Great video.
beautiful Australia 🇦🇺💗
Where are you from my love I'm
Like most of the great cities in the world it's great if you have money. He didn't visit the western suburbs. Urban sprawl, shopping malls and traffic.
Before commenting remember that in this they said that the current Prime Minister is Kevin Rudd. Meaning this was made before 2010. Australia, especially Sydney, has changed a lot since then.
2009 I think
Rudd/ Gillard enabled immigration to increase threefold. To 450k in around 2010. Most from China and India.
So many working as taxi drivers at the time not knowing where to go or that you use your horn in an emergency not to express frustration.
Thankfully they learned from the locals not to use their horns anymore.
....and so did Kevin...LOL
yes you just need a little bit of patience after watching anything originally filmed for tv or the movies, and you can see the date at the very end, it's been like this since the beginning, most even changed from using roman numerals to make it easier for you. 🤦♂️
@@michaelearthling Wasn't talking about the date it was released. I was talking about the date it was filmed.
Beautiful places Sydney Australia
Love this reporter
The trains in this video were iconic
St Leonards , Royal North Baby ,1973 💖
wow that was a really good show :) I really enjoyed it :)
hi ma'am?
Hey
I grew up on the Georges River suburb of Lugarno.................such a a great city!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Iwas also there, when Sydney Opera House was new, and when ABBA visited Sydney and our beach.
I love Sydney, but this film looks so different to the real Sydney
Agreed. This doesn't show the junkies at the Cross or at Central. The congestion, dirt and garish buildings around places like Paddy's Market. This does not show the lesser loving conditions out West. For the average person, this Sydney isn't what is shown. So let's take a moment to appreciate Australia's best city: MELBOURNE
@@mickanvonfootscraymarket5520 100% agree, Australia's best city is Melbourne. Sydney is nice but not comparable to London. But like every other city, it has no-go areas.
just a big long tourism ad.
@@mickanvonfootscraymarket5520 I live in Sydney but Melbourne was my party playground. Loosest city in Australia lol
@@harlyslamm2888 Eastern European cities don't have no-go areas, so not like *every* other city.
The Eastern Suburbs of Sydney are incredibly beautiful and EXTREMELY expensive. They best, along he southern side of the bay, such as Valclause and Rose Bay, are known as 'Little Israel' for good reason. The outer Western suburbs are hell to live in and inhabited by peoples from all over the world.
why is it known as little Israel? never heard that before
@@sydneyslosttapes2406
A lot of small hat's, live there.
You know the same people that live in Israel.
@@mariahewitt9787 LOL i get it
northshore & easterm suburbs best suburbs why i live there no crime a 1 bed apartment in my area now $800000 , 3 bed home 4 milion
Lived in Sydney for two years oh how I miss this wonderful city & country
Hey
Not many of Sydney's suburbs in this. The usual shots around the Harbour, lots of time on Bondi, a mention of some suburbs seen from the lookout, that's about it.
Thanks for acknowledging the indigenous.
As a Sydneysider and New South Welshman I can attest Sydney is truly the best city in the world to live in
And also that this documentary is not an accurate depiction of average dudney
.....did you hear about a cosmopolitan, vibrant city called Mel-bourne ?.....
Thank you it is loverly to see where you live the harbour looks great from the air
None of Jones's videos I've seen so far gives any attention to the poor, the drear, the grim aspects of any city. You may not want to know that, but it's a fact, and the programmes are rather glib and superficial as a result, no doubt charming in their way, especially with Jones in tow, but hardly incisive. In short, light entertainment.
*Jones* - "the white man brought chicken pox and now the aborignes are only 2% of the population"
*historians* - also the doing of many massacres
Thanks for sharing.
I really liked the city as it was portrayed here. Of course every city has its problems but it was nice to watch something positive for a change.
Most Sydney tourist industry operators work on the assumption that you need to rip off each visitor as much as you can because you only get the one chance. They forget that each ripped-off tourist goes home and tells their neighbors.
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Good video of the Harbour, but most of Sydney lives miles from the Harbour, in the "Western Suburbs".
Yeah and he dismissed them and the people who live there as not worth knowing. British class distinction is alive and well; and most people on the North side think likewise, while the west is the real powerhouse of the Sydney economy.
BS The real powerhouse of the economy is finance and tourism. Both confined to a few square km in the CBD.
@@sirsillybilly Even if that were true finance (for example) contributes less than 10% of the gross value added to the economy. The real economy is about productivity: creating real goods and services that make a real difference. Finance is mostly not that: it merely exchanges digits that people choose to mutually conjure as having "value". Tourism transfers the productivity of others into an economy; but very little of anything new is created except memories and images, and rather low wages for most that look after them.
@@tacitdionysus3220 why you waste your precious energy on those shallow AO ?....
people that failed a life ! Some Executives live in hills district Mansion up to 9 milion
An attendance of 1.5 million a week at Rugby League in Sydney? Dream on. You would have to delete most of the zeros from that figure.
Probably 15,000 mate
He might have said watching the match which could includes TV.
that's how many people in Sydney hate Manly(the footy team).
Awesome.
Sydney is awesome
Beautiful✌️🌟
When I was a kid, I thought Subaru was from Australia. Movie Crocodile Dundee came out, Actor Paul Hogan made a series of commercials for Subaru, that were shown on TV for 5-6 years after the first movie was released.
He reminds me of Hugh Grant!
It's his cousin
Why? Griff is Welsh. Hugh Grant is English.
Have you ever seen a host of a show spend all day to help clean an intire public pool, that is the legend Of Griff Jones
I will be there for half a month in July. Can’t wait.
how was it
just seen your comment 👍 you made it before the rona virus.
Great documentary! 👍
Love the way you get into system.
Yep, this is a typical tour of Minto to Mac Fields 😔😔
Great video thank you a lot! Superb quality. Im a cinematography student as a hobby and I like your work.
A good show .Did miss that most Sydney RSL clubs have snooker tables and host competition .
yeah i don't know why they showed a bunch of the most miserable looking raffle entrants(except the old girl knitting, she was enjoying herself).
I just love Austria
Beautiful place on earth just wish I could afford to go there for a visit b4 I pass on .
Jackyblue67 Same Rob a bank
Beautiful city!!!
would love to live here visited in 2004 loved it
Always was always will be Aboriginal land!
No way, I saw this on tv years ago and have been trying to find it. For once the TH-cam recommend has work.
Love your video,very informative and interesting. I would love to live in Bondi but currently live in the UK. Which is the cheapest suburb of Sydney to live in?