Moving to Melbourne: here's what SHOCKED me
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 มิ.ย. 2024
- I just moved to Melbourne! I wanted to sit down and chat about what has initially stood out to me within my first month living in Melbourne!
What would you tell someone who's thinking of moving to Melbourne? What were your first impressions of living in Melbourne, Australia?
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00:00 intro
00:51 the weather
02:45 the options and inclusion
04:59 community aspect is strong
06:11 cost of living isn’t as high as i thought it would be
07:15 the public transport is amazing
09:06 it’s so trend driven - ภาพยนตร์และแอนิเมชัน
The max you can pay to travel all day is $10.60 - that allows you to use trams, trains and buses endlessly. It’s cheaper on weekends too.
good to know thank you so much!
Yeah it's either 2 hours or all day, so no you don't pay every time you change from one vehicle to another. $5.30 for the first 2 hours then a second $5.30 for the remainder of the day. Also if you tap on for the first time after 6pm weekdays (ie you haven't done anything earlier) you'll just pay $5.30 for all night.
You should go to the dawn service at the Shrine of Rememberance on ANZAC Day (25 April). Yes dawn. They'll run extra public transport early so just get onto a St Kilda Rd tram and follow the crowds.
@@coffeeenut this is all over Victoria too with both buses and trains - so theoretically you can do an 18 hour journey from Mildura to Mallacoota for $10.60. It is 12 hours (without breaks) by driving. I dunno why you would do that, but that in theory is one of the longest routes you can do. More realistic journeys are like Melbourne to Bendigo or Ballarat - both are actually relatively the same time on a train vs in a car. Why bother driving given that. Tell all that to your American relatives back home and have their minds blown LOL
@JJ-hu4zm or the 18 hour journey from Mildura to Mallacoota for $10.60 LOL
As someone who used to call Hobart home and now residing in Melbourne, welcome. I hope you enjoy it here as much as I do. I no longer have to organise a weekend trip to Melbourne to do anything :D
Welcome to Melbourne love your positive attitude overall enjoy your new job as well
thank you so much!
Welcome to Melbourne. We are glad to have you. We are now officially the most populated city in Australia. I am Melbourne born and breed and as much as I love travelling abroad, I love coming home❤️
Including Melton in Melbourne is a dupe. Based on that Sydney (the Foundation city of Australia) can include Katoomba and Wollongong in its population. Why are Melbournians so paranoid? Sydney was founded in the Georgian era, 1788. Melbourne, 1830? Victorian era, 50 years after Arthur Phillip founded New South Wales in 1788, including the now States of Victoria and Queensland. Give us a break. Sydney is the genuine Foundation city of Australia, with genuine Georgian buildings - St James Church, Hyde Park Barracks, Australian Museum.
Melbourne always do sneaky sh.. to try one up everyone ...@@anEyePhil
WOW….. is someone having a bad day. Thanks for the history lesson. Though I still cannot understand how your facts relate to my comment….. and after all that we are still the most populated city according to our federal government….. suck it up buttercup😀
@@ACDZ123 I suppose that's how Gosford got to be considered part of greater Sydney.
@maltaylor9753 what ,like how Geelong is part of Melbourne? Ha ha tool
The expression we use for the weather in Melbourne at times is ‘four seasons in one day’
🤣🤣 love it
Melbourne really does cater to everyone. And has amazing public transport. I’m so glad you’re enjoying our lovely city so far. You’ve certainly not experienced the really stereotypically erratic Melbourne weather yet - Autumn tends to be the most settled season. Spring is often stormy, and the winds can get fierce, whilst winters can vary between bitter and pleasantly mild. Which makes winter sound like a range of beers. How Australian.
i appreciate it! thank you
It might just be me but you’re looking extremely relaxed, it may be the Melbourne cafe society living.
🤣🤣 so funny you say that
Melbourne relaxed, are you serious? It's nothing like your delusion implies. I have lived in three different countries, one in Europe two in Asia. This is very explicit: If one is not of the LGBTI type, nor has good friends providing a semblance of peer support one is doomed! Worse still, if one is heterosexual your life will be plainly very depressing. The only reason I returned to Melbourne after living overseas for almost seven years is due to illness. In addition to the geo-political tensions in Asia that have very much ruined any sense of maintaining steady work. The only advantage to living in Australia is the stable politics and a welfare system. The rest sucks. No I didn't miss Melbourne but when the greener pastures turn pale one must return. Extremely relaxed....no.
@@KeyboredCowardthe name you chose.. really reflects your comments 😂😂😂😂
Such a sweet lady hope all goes well for you In Melbourne once again Welcome to Australia cheers from Sydney.
thank you!
It's not fragile, it's sensible. If you want to keep dry in the rain, use an umbrella. If you want to protect yourself against skin cancer in the sun, use an umbrella.😊
I adore Tassie, only place i genuinely wanted to move to, family situation meant I never did. But Melbourne is a large cosmopolitan city with all the advantages and disadvantages that brings. Not really fair to compare Melbourne to Hobart, they are just very different things.
i’m comparing my experience living in two places, not the places themselves
Great to see you looking so happy and relaxed! I felt a little sorry for you when you first arrived in Tassie and didn't know anyone but you have grown so much since then Ashleigh. You're such a nice girl you deserve to be happy. Welcome to Melbourne! 😊
I also moved from Hobart to Melbourne... but in 2003. One of the reasons I moved was so I could be myself, which I found hard in Tasmania because no matter where you go there is a chance someone knows you. Strangers are usually helpful and friendly in Melbourne.
Focaccia sandwiches (toasted) have been common in cafe's for as long as I can remember. I'm not sure that is a trend.
Focaccias and Paninis have been around for a long time. Strange that they seem to be back “on trend” they have always been prevalent in cafes due to their convenience and the fact you can toast them or eat them fresh.
So many options for ingredients too. Welcome to Melbourne!
You see them a lot as Melbourne has a lot of Italian and Greek eateries and immigrants from Italy and Greece
interesting!
thanks so much! and yeah weird how instagram/tiktok made them super popular again
True, either are trends. It's just cheap eating especially if takeaway plus easy to manage the eating. So that's what's driving the popularity it's not a trend as such. Also Melbourne is very much coffee driven as a culture we had massive coffee houses in the 19th century then influx of Italians and Greeks which led to smaller cafes. It's not about the trend as such it's about celebrating the coffee. NY and other cities think it's Starbucks now THAT is a vacuous trend which has not really taken off here. Yes there are a few Starbucks scattered around mainly for tourists and the clueless.
@@alicejohnson8751 Really? Australia hasn't had many Mediterranean migrants in the past 50 years, the descendants of post war migrants have mostly merged into mainstream culture. These days a coffee shop is more likely to be run by someone with an Anglo-Saxon name and a pizza place by Arabs or Chinese.
100% agree with you about the weather. I’ve yet to be really cold in my two years in Melbourne and I’ve used an umbrella exactly once.
I remember when your subscriber numbers were in the low hundreds so congratulations on your channel growth.
Are you inner city? I can understand you may not want to say which suburb you’re in but if you can say whether your north or east etc of the city that would help us give you local recommendations.
A pleasant surprise in summer months is the very long twilight. With daylight saving it's possible to do long day trips drives & back in daylight hours to places like Wilson's Promontory, Great Ocean Road and the 12 Apostles, & Walhalla, & be home by 9 pm before sunset. Or an overnight in the Grampians. Of course there are closer options like Ballarat, the Dandenongs, Mornington Peninsula, Bellarine Peninsula & Phillip Island for the shorter days in Autumn (Fall) & Winter & early Spring. Most of the main attractions are outside Melbourne. But there are still a few attractions within the city Como House, Captain Cook's Cottage, the Zoo, Eureka Tower Lookout and street art lanes are a few of those.
thank you so much!
@@coffeeenut YW. Oh, I forgot Healesville for native Aussie animals & the William Ricketts Sanctuary in the Dandenongs. Phillip Island for seeing koalas, seals and penguins in the wild. You'll be spoiled for choice for daytrips around Melbourne.
The flip side of having such a long twilight in Summer is that you can get a rude shock the futher North that you travel at the speed with which it gets dark quickly in other places. You suddenly find yourself running around to get things done before it gets dark.
@@markfryer9880 Melbourne Au is in the southern hemisphere. So going SOUTH below 40 degrees decreases winter daylight. Melbourne is 37.81 latitude so it's hardly Canada at 49 degrees. About the same as Athens, Greece or Stockton California, or C'ville Virginia.
I ❤ Melbourne..My brother lives out around Castlemaine. I visited last year absolutely loved it! 😍
Thanks for your great reaction. Interesting coming from a New Yorker. Do get out of town to Dandenong ranges ECT.👍
thank you! and yes there’s on my list
I live in the Dandenong Ranges. It is beautiful, even when foggy and drizzling. It is usually 5°C cooler than at the bottom of the hill so if you come here on one of the cooler days, rug up.
On the trends: it was not always thus :) Melbourne's cafe culture really hit high gear around 20 years ago, and as it's become ever more cut-throat competitive, cafes live or die on their trendiness now (well many do - the best can ignore the trends :). When I was living in rural North Carolina, I remember seeing stories from home about "deconstructued lattes" which very much confused the locals :).
If you get a chance, go visit Pellegrini's Espresso Bar - 66 Bourke St in the CBD (just down the street from Parliament House). It has some claim to being the first Italian-style cafe in Melbourne... and therefore the point of origin for our coffee obsession. Be prepared, though - it's nothing like a normal Melbourne cafe - it's very much a traditional Italian family cafe experience :)
P.S. I guarantee you'll find decent bagels in Melbourne... although you may need to search a bit ;)
ahh gotcha! and thanks for the rec
the deconstructed latte wasnt actually a deconstructed latte it was just how a cafe decided to serve machiatos because people have different preferences for the coffee to milk ratio so they let people add the milk themselves
its just one of those things that got picked in the headlines and took off
Elsternwick is the best place for bagels in Melbourne! Just DON'T go there on a Saturday because the great bagel places aren't open. I made that mistake only once 🤦
My Mum introduced me to Pellegrini's, she would go there when she worked at Collins Books in the '50s.
Unfortunately, I haven't been able to bring myself to return since the old man was murdered in the street. I'm too used to seeing him behind the bar.
Hi I been living in Melbourne for the last 10 years
My wife is from New York abd I'm from israel and we love it here in Melbourne even that the weather I'd what it is
that’s awesome!
Lived my twenties in Melbourne, returned to Hobart for 30s! Both amazing places to live.
Glad to see your video, wish you have a good time in Melbourne 🥰
Welcome to my home town! I have lived here my whole life except a couple of years (in NZ and Sydney). I live in the suburbs now but work in the inner city so enjoy a mix of the busy and more quiet areas. I'm so excited you got a cat! Cat chat Melbourne is a great Facebook page for cat related content and questions etc. hope you continue to settle in well and apologies for today's gross weather 😂
i appreciate it thank you!
Hi from Brisbane. Have visited Melbourne many times and usually enjoyed it very much (last visit, there was so much construction going on in the city, it was very annoying). Not sure where you are, but if you make it to trendy Carlton there is our favourite restaurant Shakahari, 201 Faraday St (just off Lygon St). Great food at very reasonable prices. And of course Brunetti's are just around the corner. Agree with other comments, you are very welcome here.
thanks so much for the rec!
Haven't been to Shakahari in 8 years or so, but it was always good. Must go again now that you mention it
Great suburbs to eat, music, shop Thornbury, Northcote, Brunswick, Williamstown, Coburg, High Street Thornbury, even Alton Beach area is a nice stroll. Ofcourse St Kilda, Sandringham Beach.
Spent a weekend in Geelong and Queenscliff. Tune in 3pbs radio and find out where great music is.
thank you!
Welcome to Melbourne!
Nice to come across a relatively new You Tube channel; all the very best with that, and I've joined your subscribers to help swell their ranks.
As for Melbourne weather, I recall hearing a saying when I moved over, "If you don't like the weather, come back in 5 minutes!" Many visitors (especially Qldr's) have expressed their dismay at how it's hard to know what to wear, as the weather changes so much, one day, or even one hour to the next.
Having come from Broken Hill (far Western NSW) I grew up in semi-arid desert, where you could have weeks at a time of over a 100 degrees F, or 40+ degrees C; so, to come here where the weather ( in "The City by the Bay") is so variable is, for me, so wonderful, and a real blessing.
If I go into the city (Melb) I take a backpack/slingbag, and bring along a windcheater/spray-jacket and consider myself pretty much "Melbourne ready", I also used to tote a collapsible brolly as well, but if it buckets down unexpectedly I just pop into a supermarket and buy one on the spot (usually these are priced from 8 or 9 dollars up to around $12) but usually, my spray jacket, with hood placed over a baseball style cap (also in my backpack) will suffice until I reach shelter or transport.
I LOVE Melbourne weather.
I’m Melbourne born & bred, I’ve been eating Focaccia’s for about 20yrs, people eat them because they taste really good.
Don’t know where you’re working but it is handy to know that train rides into the city are free if you tap on and off before 7.15am. Trams in the cbd are free. Daily Myki cost shouldn’t go over $10 odd whatever the max is these days. If your card is debiting $6 every time you use it make sure you haven’t set up to only buy 2 hour tickets.
Welcome and enjoy your coffee adventure! Even at Maccas the barista’s have training. You will find Starbucks, but they’re really only aimed at Americans looking for a sugar fix 😊
good to know about the myki! i’ll have to double check my settings thank you
Why would you want to go to a Starbucks in Melbourne when we have such great coffee shops everywhere and even the McCafe has to be better than Starbucks.
Hi Ashleigh. Weather here is so up & down at times. You can go out in the morning with a jacket, by mid mirning you are down to a t-shirt only to have a southerly cool change happen just after lunch & you need a coat & umbrella & try & keep out of the cold wind. It's just the geography of where we are. Glad you are enjoying Melbourne so far. Check out the comedy festival atm. One of the best in the world.
As a coeliac, I can tell you that there are great cafes in regional Victoria too.
I live in inner Melbourne and agree that Melbourne is awesome.
thank you!
I hope that you’re enjoying Melbourne 😊. About trends; there was this chocolate brownie croissant in a bakery close to my place, and it was so popular in the first few weeks, and now it’s faded away
Interesting to hear your experience, and I’m glad people have been friendly.
FYI- I grew up with focaccia’s, they’ve been around since at least the early 90’s.
I’ve been in Melbourne for over 30 years, came here from India. I totally love living here, it’s a wonderful place
HI Ash - what you might see as 'trend-driven', I would say was part of the competitive nature of the cafe business in Melbourne. If you don't have the "trendy" (your word) thing, it's too easy to find a place that does. IT's just good business to provide what people want, especially in a time where it's hard to maintain a small shop at all. That's not to say every place will do it - if your regulars are plentiful enough, you might not need to jump on every trend.
One thing you should notice about Melbourne is that the coffee is great. Don't go for the fancy ones, just get a plain flat white. This will show you the difference between local coffee and the coffee from elsewhere.
Great to hear you’re enjoying Melbourne so much, it’s a great town. This must be the second Focaccia sandwich wave - the first one was in the 1990s! You probably already know but public transport is free within the CBD so you can hop on and hop off without limits around the city if you need to.
Funny after being in Melbourne for 39 years I want quiet peaceful surroundings now. Sick of the over growth of people here . Good luck
Ashleigh, It's nice to see you are settling in Melbourne. I'm from Tasmania born and bred but my late mother was from there and lived in Footsgrray until 1954. after that they moved to my late father's home state Tasmania. Melbourne is my favourite city in Australia. I love the culture there. Ashleigh you won't run out of coffee places to go to in Melbourne. Congratulations at choosing a good place to live like Melbourne. Hope you come back to Tassie from time to time for a visit as its still has a lot to offer. Pete from from Devonport Tas...
I live in Adelaide, and my brother and his family live in Melbourne. When I go to visit him we make a week of it, and go explore all of the cafes, wine bars, bistros and coffee shops in the CBD. There are so many, and they are always changing. Adelaide sadly doesn't have the population critical mass to support such a dining culture. Don't get me wrong, Adelaide has some great places for food and coffee. But not on the scale and variety as Melbourne.
super interesting! Adelaide is on my list to get to but I’ve heard varying reviews, is it nice to visit or only to live?
Adelaide is like a mini Melbourne. It has many benefits, and many disadvantages too, all because of the population, as David said.
The weather in Adelaide is a Mediterranean climate, and it’s typically 4-5°C warmer than Melbourne. Food is amazing here, but it’s all based around the city and the very inner suburbs (either The Parade or King William Road), it has a far superior arts culture, and great beaches.
The Adelaide Hill are literally 20 minutes out of the CBD by car, and many wine regions are within 45 minutes.
Unfortunately, things I miss about Melbourne are late night trading, cafes on every corner with endless restaurants and places to explore each week, and just the general vibe of the hustle and bustle of life around the university precincts (parkville, hawthorn, etc…). All in all the conveniences and activity in Melbourne are noticeable versus a smaller city like Adelaide.
I was born in Melbourne and love the weather. The thing is sometimes it is coming across the desert from Perth, but other times straight across the ocean from Antarctica. And it is almost never humid. Although that gives us all types of weather I like the variety.
i love to hear it’s almost never humid!
Stay away from Sydney if you dislike humidity. These days it is on and off amost all summer, it was once only February. Not Singaporen humidity though.
If you look at weather maps over a week then you will start to understand Melbourne weather.
Interesting I find Melbourne quite humid compared to Canberra which is very dry. Not as humid as Sydney or anywhere north but still humid. Much more difficult to dry clothes outside.
@@kayelle8005 I agree. Melbourne has been getting progressively more humid. I moved from Adelaide 25 years ago and chose Melbourne over Sydney because it wasn't humid here. Not anymore, the last few years especially has been quite humid in summer.
Hi Ashley, there is a historical connection between Tasmania and Melbourne that you may not be aware of but which I think you might find interesting. Melbourne was founded by Tasmanians - specifically, northern Tasmanians. They asked permission from Sydney to settle Port Phillip Bay but this was refused. So they took their request to the Privy Council in London and were granted permission, but were given specific instructions, such as the need to bring so many thousands of sheep etc, to ensure the success of the venture. They landed on the shores of the Yarra River, just below a waterfall that no longer exists that separated salt water from freshwater, in 1835. And so, Melbourne (named for Lord Melbourne, the British Prime Minister of the day) was born, although it has had a number of other names, including Beargrass and Batman (after John Batman, one of the founders, the other main one being John Pascoe Fawkner).
super interesting! i didn’t know that
It was actually called Batmania after John Batman :)
@@stopbunsen Damned autocorrect!
Our Summer weather has been really erratic for around 4-5 years. Yes we can have 4 seasons in one day, but Summer used to be days of 30+C day after day with very few humid days and nights and then we would have a bit of humidity and a change of weather was welcomed … and then a day or so later it was back into days of high temps again, but here has been a lot of cooler, wet and windy weather than we are used to in Summer. Our Winters are usually cold, wet and windy and we are used to test, but we have had some excessively violently windy storms the last couple of years that can now occur any time of the year. I guess we will have to hope for better weather and put up with what we get.
gotcha! thank you
Probably the lunchtime favorite in Melbourne is probably Bahn Min. A Vietnamese pork roll. Delish!
I remember moving here too. The first few years I was on such a high. The good thing is that Melbourne is community driven almost everywhere. The outer suburbs I find it a bit more isolating. But, inner city suburbs all over are very connected with places and facilities and things to do.
The trends I don't notice a whole lot but the city prides itself on coffee and food and is always looking for the next new thing I imagine.
I'm vegan and Melbourne has an overwhelming number of options for me. Fitzroy/Collingwood are probably the best suburbs for that.
That's awesome you've been enjoying yourself!
Agreed. I think the trends this lady speaks of are better described as 'micro trends' that occur in an isolated Melbourne suburb maybe. Possibly the coffee/sandwich shops are owned or managed by the same franchise.
thanks so much!
the trends are everywhere! cafes all over the city and suburbs with that coffee i was talking about! same with the focaccia, seen it all over :)
@@coffeeenut betcha I do see the mont blanc coffee everywhere now lol. I actually do see some trends when I think about it. I remember when cold brew coffee took off in the early 2010s. Cafes everywhere were suddenly doing it. Croissants are definitely going through a revival at the moment with people lining up at some places. Focaccias were huge about 20 years ago, so it's interesting to hear they are back! I was never that into them so it would be cool to see how they are doing them now.
Glad you're enjoying your new home. Oh thats interesting re being trend driven. Dont tbink ive notced that too much anywhere else in Aus. Looking forward to seeing you explore there more and day trips of course.
Re transport costs, Is there a cap on public transport in Melbourne? I geel like there would be? I remember living in Sydney for years and there was a daily cap and weekly cap. So for example weekly cap is $50 so that's the most you'll pay no matter how much you tap on and off . Fri-sun cap is $9. Mon-Thurs was higher though. Still waiting for rest of the country to catch up on bank card/tap paywave.
thank you!! after seeing another comment I saw that yet, Melbourne has a $10 and change cap
@@coffeeenut Oh good to hear! Most states do have a cap on public transport. 👍.
Hello Ashleigh Fay of Ashleigh Fay Vlogs, I like your videos!
Focaccias, Yes, they were around in the early to mid 90's (in Sydney and Melbourne), perhaps earlier and then Turkish bread took over and stayed. Smashed Avocado dishes and cold brewed coffee were/are other big trends! I remember people including my mum used to order Vienna coffee (A traditional Viennese coffee, combining espresso and a generous topping of whipped cream with chocolate sprinkle) instead of cappucinos but I haven't seen them for ages! I guess it was all the cream that put people off because they would be calorific!
Toasted focaccias were my go to lunch choice when I was working and pregnant with my first child in 2004 😅
WELCOME TO MELBOURNE! ❤ Tram are free everyday around the Melbourne CBD. ;-)
I left Melbourne in 1967 & focaccia sandwiches were around then.......that's some trend !
Enjoy the herion, its top class in inner northern suburb lanes near the train stations (former Melbournian)
Haha I did notice there were a lot more focaccia places opening up.
so funny 🤣 have you tried?
@@coffeeenutIts customer driven. If you run a cafe and ten people come in asking if you sell focaccias then you start making them.
About 20 odd years ago (could be even longer) there was a great focaccia place in North Fitzroy called 'How the Focaccia' 😉
@@AB-zf6byAs good as "Lentil as Anything"
Lived here all my life …
Bagels are the new thing in Melbourne atm
Welcome
By the way the best focaccias used to be at the Lebanese bakers up on Sydney Road - fresh and delicious! Avoid the ones from the supermarkets 😄
Melb'n a different kettle of fish, compared to Hobart, more opportunities, easier to merge into the woodwork
yes!
@@coffeeenut Also buying a unit in Melbourne is a no brainer with more choices, and finding something tailor made
Yep sometimes you just want some privacy...
Just passing my coffee break watching you. Here in far north Queensland some things are similar. I'm near Tully, the wettest place in Australia but people rarely carry umbrellas. I do, at least it's in my car (no public transport in the country). Some especially young people don't wear hats, although Queensland has one of the highest skin cancer rates globally. I had to go to the ER hospital in Tully yesterday after 5 PM and including waiting and treatment was out the door in about 40 minutes. Tully has a few cafes and one does a 40 mm high 12 ingredient vegetarian sandwich for me for $8.50. The larger one is terrible.
hey just so you know cause i feel like even many people in melbourne dont know this but you only have to tap your mykey on the tram once per day. That will give you a day ticket which is like $5.5. for a days travel. dont tap on again if you change trams. tap once and travel for the entire day and dont tap off. :)
i didn’t know that thank you! i thought the tram was every use
Ah! Your cat is so funny 🐱
she’s a gem 🤣
Re : Melbourne weather , yes it can be a little bit four seasons on occasions , but when you look at the weather over time particularly if you are an older person , I think you may come to the conclusion , Melbourne has the best weather in the country , we rarely get the nasty tropical stuff like up north gets ,
generally , the seasons are what get , in winter it can get a bit dreary and cold as you would expect , in summer it can get stinking hot when the wind blows across the red centre to us , but generally its lovely and warm through summer , and in between winter and summer of course you get bit of a mixture.
Melbourne statistically gets roughly half the rainfall Sydney gets .
In my 6 plus decades living mostly in Melbourne except for a stint working in WA , I`ve seen snow on the ground in Melbourne burbs twice , and when I say snow , it more like a sprinkling to cover the ground.
Interesting to hear your take about public transport , it looks ok ,
I`m more of a car guy , when I was young I used to jump on the old w class trams to go to school and very occasionally use the train before my licence .
I`m not real big on crowds in public transport , that's just me .
its interesting how the weather can be different on different ares of the state , if your in the east of Victoria it appears they get a lot more of the slightly more extreme weather at times , on the northern side of mid/outer Melbourne burbs , it appears we are in a bit of a weather shadow , when its bad or really nasty on the other side of town , often it appears we cop a lot less ( just an observation) , not to say we don't get our share of dreary weather when the dreary weather season comes , but you have to take the good with the bad.
It is good having shops open fairly late in the big smoke , if you know your way around you can always find a feed somewhere :) .
I hope you are going to stay for a while and experience summer here , I think you'll love it .
All the best to you .
is there a weekly cap on public transportation? Sydney has a $50 a week cap that I max out every week in my daily commute to work.
As a Sydney sider, I dig Melbourne. Gold Coast is our version of Florida, love tropical Qld. Check out Fremantle in Wa. Housing in Sydney is ridiculous.
Myki: The 2 hour cap fare is $5.30. (& can get bit more than 2 hours, in couple ways).
If a journeys extends beyond the 2 hours then will be charged $5.30 on next tap off.
If complete journey/s within 2 hours & don't travel again that day, it's $5.30 max.
The initial might seem a bit expensive compared to a single trip fare elsewhere or if doing a very short trip but have to remember won't ever pay more than 2 fares in a day. $5.30 on first touch off, & $5.30 if touch off more than 2 hours from first touch on, of the day.
Will never be charged more than (in 2024) anymore than $10:60 in a day/night for any travel on any or multiple Public Transport mode/s in Greater Melbourne.
Fares/caps are less than that, on Saturdays and Sundays, also.
$10.60 is also Statewide cap now too, & to/from mid Regional Stations (Ballarat, Geelong & bit past, Seymour, Traralgon), or Bus termini, can just use Myki card.
This next TIP is one many Melb people don't know, OR don't realise they're not charged a full day's fare: If Tap on AFTER 6pm, you're only charged Max $5.30, for whole night. (& if not traveled before 6pm on same day $5.30 is the cap). PTV day changeover is around 3am*.
[*Some flexibility re longer trips/line and regional travel, but also depends on departure time of the train if around 3am, but if tapped on by 2 for long journeys or 2:30 for more local, it's unlikely to go into next day fare but will only be $5.30, & may not even be, as travel completed before 7:15 am on weekdays is free, *but need to have positive balance on card at end of trip]
Re the 2 hour cap, for $5.30, if break your journey at a station in between your first departure station and your (suburban) final destination station the 2 hour allowance is extended a bit.
PTV doesn't state how much extra time we get but I've got it to approx 15 minutes.
Say, get on at Flinders St Station (or any Loop Station), decide to get off a few stations along the line, grab something from shop etc and get back on a train the 2 hour allowance may then, approx, 2 hours 15 minutes. Allowance does not apply re CBD & City Loop Stations. It is also only re trains.
On Myki Top Up, or Purchase, machines there's a 'Myki History' button where can check trips and fares charged for last 10 trips. The right column will show $0.00 for some or several trips.
It would be really interesting for you to go to the Anzac Day dawn service at the Shrine of Rememberance and tell us about your experience.
It on April 25th
Hell yeah, Melbourne is great. I do live in a house in the northern suburbs but its only ~25-30 mijutes to drive to the city so 🤷.... and i also work in the CBD. But its great!
In our small country town in Victoria we can wait 3 weeks for a doctor appointment.
oh no!
I’ve lived in Melbourne my whole life and worked in the CBD for over a decade. My biggest complaint is that everything closes at 2.30-3pm. I get that they cater to the corporate people (which is me) so makes sense to close after the lunch hour, but some days I miss lunch or am desperate for a coffee and snack in the afternoon and nothing is open near my office.
oh really? I’ve found things overall
open later here than in more rural places!
If youre not wedded to any particular GP (not literally) you can get GPs to come to you after hours. I did that once when I had food poisoning and couldnt leave my place. It was bulk billed too. Im in Perth so I assume they have that in Melbourne.
ps cant believe Ive been following you for 2 years. You have changed a lot since your first posts! You seem far more relaxed and at ease these days. Its been nice to see.
i appreciate this a lot thank you! yes been that long 🤣 crazy
Haha... Brilliant. Don't know which suburb you've ended up in, but I lived in Brunswick East for a number of years and only moved out during Covid for work reasons and those em effers used to almost make me vomit with the keeness to stay on trend. I remember when it became fashionable to ride use bicycles as your means of transport. Fuck me. And the it simply HAD to be a fixie. Hahahaha. I sometimes miss walking around looking at all the 'individuals' walking around in the exact same clothes. hehehe. You're gonna love it here miss. Welcome to our little corner of the world.
thank you!
hi ashleigh, not sure if you know this, trams in the city(CBD) are free.
i appreciate that, but i’m referring to one’s outside the CBD
Try and get out to regional Victoria easy access with trains maybe do a weekend trip there
What the focaccia !
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Good name for a cafe might be “How The Focaccia?”
I was born here in Melbourne and am now in my 50s, the reputation Melbourne has with the weather was inherited a long time ago. I remember growing up here, the winters were miserable and almost every park where we played football was a mud pit due to it being so wet.
Global warming has made the really warm parts of Australia kind of oppressive imo, for Melbourne it has kind of flattened out the weather, so winters here are fairly mild now. You still get that variability given we have hot air coming off the desert to the north and cold air coming from the south pole to the south, we are in the region where it can get a bit chaotic but overall it is mild.
Both Melbourne and Sydney are very multicultural. When I was born here the population was a bit over 2 million, it has grown substantially despite the birth rate in Australia being below replacement level, so we are growing due to immigration. I guess it is why we generally are so welcoming of other people, a really large part of the community here has either come from somewhere else or has recent roots to being from somewhere else.
I think the housing issue is a short-term thing, most people don't want to move to the outer suburbs and the uptake of large residential units has been poor. Those have always had a stigma in Australia given the government used to build housing for the poor and they have always had the stigma of being slummy. We don't really make good quality units here, a majority of the inner city accommodation developers have been Asian in origin and whilst the type of units are functional and look grand by what they are used to back home, they seem kind of cramped by Australian/western standards so people don't really see them as an alternative to a house, not to the extent they need to be.
The expectation is the population in Melbourne will grow to 8m by 2051, we will swallow up Geelong, Ballarat and Bendigo in the process if we continue to expand in just a two dimensional manner. I'd like to sell my house and move into a unit, it is more practical as I get older, but I think there needs to be a bit of give and take on the development side of things as well.
Make sure you check out Smith + Deli in Collingwood for yummy vegan sandwiches too
thank you! i’ll add it to the list
Tassie girl here - Hobart is second driest capital. I miss blue sky crisp winter days. Melbourne is very wet in comparison with gray sky days. I almost went home to Hobart the first year I lived here. I’ve now been here over 25 years. Enjoy! It’s very multicultural and cosmopolitan. Some of what you might look for is very hidden but it is there, just keep looking and asking.
thank you!
I have lived in Melbourne most of my life. Not everywhere in Melbourne is trend driven. Some areas are very culture based.
good to know! thank you
BTW if you have an Android phone you can set up a myki on it in your wallet to tap on and off for trains/trams etc
foccacia first trended in the 70s at least, but trendies first appeared in the 80s,
Mum used to pack the salami, cheese and tomato filled panini/focaccia for my school sandwich in the 70s…not cool back then LOL. How far we’ve come.
omg
In Perth, foccacia and pasta dishes became big in the 80's. I didn't love them (too thick, dry and doughy for me), but they may be better now.
I haven't lived in Melbourne in years but I'm thinking of moving back. I found that people who are in Melbourne, if they're into something, they're really into it. They're really staunch. Check them out with AFL football. It's a religion. 🙂
If you love tennis you have to go to the Australian open.
Forget the Focaccias and Paninis, find a cafe that make Jaffles & your life will not be the same
A friend's England born 80 something father who served in WW2 said to me once "Australian soldiers told me about Australia and I emigrated immediately after the war to Melbourne. After a couple if months I discovered the weather in Melbourne was like England so I headed for Brisbane and have been here for the rest of my life and for much of it with a caravan at Mooloolaba Beach".
Stay here long enough , in Victoria, and get a good spring and summer, and u won't believe the bs of interstaters.. i m A proud Victorian whos lived most states except tassie.
It is said that the sugar content in chocolate and junk food products in America is much higher than in Europe and other developed countries. what is your opinion
i never noticed! my understanding is that other countries have higher FDA standards than the US
FIRSTLY MOST IMPORTANTLY Your hair is gorgeous. Perfect Luxurious Amazing ... bitch. So happy for you and so brave of you. It's hard to start up again in an unknown world without family and lifelong friends. Hope the JOB is off to a good start (only caught half of vid so far). Everything will be new and scary but of course you will just get in and be the best. You are living your best life cos you have dared to take a chance and keep taking a chance MOVING FORWARD. It's something to be proud of. I love Tassie btw (always start with a positive) and do not love Melbourne (just being honest - id feel weird pretending to like Melbourne even from afar). Glad you like it tho. Last time I was there I was at the airport, my flight leaving in a couple of hours, begging to be put on an earlier flight home (no such luck of course). Id been affected by Major bouts of Sinus the whole time I was there but that last day I was sick as a dog. Anyways .. glad you like it so far (someone's got to). ummm btw re the following, no avid attention necessary BUT if you find a coffee joint you love that sells packets of beans over the counter or direct. Could I get their name and ph number please so I can purchase some beans from them? A lot of coffee houses sell beans to customers and must have mailing lists as well. Id deal with them direct because I don't expect you to be involved - but a biz name and phone number would be great if you can.
MELBOURNES COFFEE IS GLORIOUS - i'll give it that.
I can't stand the coffee in this state (well ive tried it from Gold Coast to Cairns and that's most of the state) and NSW (being on the Gold Coast ive travelled much of NSW as well) is Not much better.
Bought a really expensive coffee machine ages ago and ran out of crap coffee ages ago but won't start it up again until I have a coffee that's drinkable to put through it. Not in a hurry I can wait but def sticking to that statement. You are of course a coffee connoisseur & understand the need for good coffee. Anyways if and when you find your favorite place for a coffee could you maybe get their biz card and even just take a pic to post on liner. No need to muck about sending separately - I watch all yr gear so if added somewhere under your name I'll see it.
If not cest la guerre - Love your work Sam.
Focacia sandwhiches are trending? I thought they were a staple! But I am out of touch, for a Melburnian.
only started popping up in popularity in the last few months!
@@coffeeenut maybe it's coming back in fashion, i remember getting focaccia sandwhiches a lot in my teens. they say everything is cyclical. 🤷♀️
Well, you can't move to Melbourne and not visit Healesville and the animal sanctuary there. When you do, my father and I would love to buy you lunch or dinner anywhere, since there is so much fine food and wine here. I'm 57 and my father is 87, so do your due diligence. But I've had a great time taking 'social media friends' out in the region, in a large part because hospitality is pretty close to a religion for me.
Yeah g'day,
It's good to hear you are settling into Melbney and fabulous news on the cat is it a calico?
I agree Melbney is very trend driven and in some cases, those trends manage to infect other places. Fortunately, they don't last long before something sensible comes along.
thank you! she’s a tortoiseshell! i’ll be showing her in the next video
Once again inner city outer suburbs we don't have trams we have buses who come on their on timetable an train stations are very far an few between
buy a weekly or monthly ticket it's cheaper
4 n 20 pie with dead horse and a can of vb ,luxury🇭🇲
Have you gone to the Comedy Festival yet?
nope! i haven’t heard much about it
For sure this city is food trend driven. It comes in waves - The focacia thing was almost certainly picked up from all'antico vinaio influencer videos out of florence, combined with the previous (and still flowing) trend of sandwiches made by ex chefs (think hectors deli) which was built of the previous trend of brioche bun style burgers. Before that burgers were chain restraunrs or take away at the fish and chip shop. The quality pastry and independent bakeries were the result of a trend wave (prior to this the bakeries were run by vietnamese people and not asthetic by any insta standard). Korean fried chicken was a trend as were dumplings as was raman - they became standards. Now its all about the mala hotpot, the use of native ingredients etc. Basically as you will see this city is relentless in its comitments to a trend... mostly all powered by broadsheet. Not being cynical at all - its fun, results in better standards - it very clear were a young growing city yearning for a culinary identity - it can get tiring but its exciting to be a part of it too.
super interesting thank you! and yes broadstreet! so true
I think cafes and resteraunt have had to be much more cutthroat about acquiring and keeping business during and still after Covid. Melbourne is on average highly educated, vaccine positive, and health conscious, and there is just a portion of the population including family and close friends of the medically vulnerable that avoid indoor eating and activities, when covid is high, or in the run up to seeing vulnerable people. Not to mention the vulnerable ourselves. We’re waiting for a much *better*, more effective class of vaccines before we go back to pre covid life.
If you use public transport regularly, look into the one year public transport pass, it can be highly cost effective if you use it a lot. Glad you are enjoying Melbourne. Tasmania is exquisite, but you have to either love a small town vibe, or want to be hiking, camping, road tripping or fishing very regularly.
While in Melbourne definitely take a day trip out to Healsville animal Sanctury, one to the Cranbourne Native Botanic Gardens, a few day trips to explore the Dandenongs, and get out to Mount Macedon at least once during Autumn and Spring. Day trip into the Melbourne Botanic Gardens and take a comfortable shoes and a picnic or pay tourist fees for a rather good lunch, really worth a long long walk around the gardens. Look out for the free concerts at the Sydney Meyer Music Bowl, get there really early for on street parking and a good spot in front of the stage to eat a picnic dinner on the grass. They are held in Summer and hopefully the last one still has fireworks.
Look up the time and location of next year’s Moomba parade and Birdman contest. I recommend the queer Midsumma carnival, the Victoria Market (another long walk needing comfy shoes to get around it, it’s huge, there are food stalls if you can find them. It’s mainly undercover if it’s raining it’s still worth going. The main section of the NGV is free and good, and you can buy lunch inside. It’s traditional to stick your hand in the water wall at the front entrance, you will have to put your handbag or backpack in the cloakroom. the Australian museum in Federation Square is also free, I highly recommend the ground floor permanent Aboriginal art exhibition there.
Swanston street in the CBD is well worth exploring top to bottom over several weekends. It has good food, tourist traps, the free State Library with its lovely domed main reading room, kinda interesting architecture from many different eras, good shopping at the multistory Meyer store in the Burke st Mall off Swanston street, and Chinatown intersects Swanston St. It’s the main tram interchange in Melbourne, there are several a minute that branch out to different geographical areas of Melbourne.
On or around Swanston st is the usual place for major political protest marches. If you have a cause you are interested in, the marches are peaceful and earnest, generally family friendly events with speeches at some nice place at the termination of the march. Also there’s usually handy shops to buy food and water if you need it on the march. I haven’t been able to go on one since Q conspiracies and Trumpism has affected Australian politics via the internet, hopefully the peaceful tradition is ongoing.
White Nights Melbourne is a large collection of after dark free displays and performances around the CBD in midwinter. Highly recommend. I also recommend Shakespeare In the Dark at the Botannical Gardens. Lots of tiny to huge music, theatre and sports events all over the place throughout the year. Lots of great live music at many pubs and RSLs, from jazz to rock and whatever, very cheap or free, cheap food, they want to sell you alcohol. Pubs are great for big cheap lunches, again they count on some alcohol sales but you don’t have to. They do coffee/tea/water too.
thank you!
At least trams within the CBD are free
Unfortunately I have to walk past at least 5 coffee shops before I can find a good one, they really don’t know how to make coffee… it’s all about being hip and cool…
in melbourne?
@@coffeeenut yes
I moved from Melbourne to Hobart for all of 2021 and 2022. Lots of great things about Hobart and Tassie, but i couldn’t wait to get back to Melbourne. Melbourne just has far more resources. You can get anything, and at a bargain price. And yes, Hobart doesn’t have enough GPs. Hobart was just too insular for me. I felt isolated. Melbourne is much better for normal people, ie renters, workers.. etc. the trend driven thing is interesting. I think it happens politically too, which irritates me 😂
And I think you are right that Melbourne people are more sensitive to the weather, which i find amusing. Yes, it’s raining heavily now, and yes, it was sunny and beautiful 5 minutes ago, oh and now it’s hailing. Well, that happens, but I don’t notice it until other people mention it 😂
Ok that's all very cool, but on to the most important issue ... which AFL team have you adopted? ;)
Everybody talks about the weather but nobody does anything about it!
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Any mainland Aussie city is great if you're coming from Slowbart🤣
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So we have Radelaide, Brisvegas and now Slowbart.
If you want a UNIQUE Melbourne coffee then you have to have a “magic” They are so in right now that you can even get them (inferior version of) @ your local 7-Eleven 😂
Sydney is SO much better than Melbourne. And it's a big competition and it matters a lot. A LOT. And Sydney is CRAZY better than Melbourne, because we go to the gym more and get more sun tanned. Yep. Sydney. First and foremost at all times. AND way cooler and friendlier. And more energy and art. But, we also lie all the time, like all the time, especially about how good Sydney is
Haha good inclusion for your concluding comment. Yep, you're 100% correct regards competition between Melb + Syd IS real, and a big deal at that! Being Melb born + bred, I get it - I'm biased. However, I love Sydney for a getaway - it's a great, pretty city to be in & I love the historical elements! Let's not even hint at the COST of Sydney, though 🙄 That is the biggest downside of Sydney - renting is barely affordable (and only the rich can consider buying a home of their own) and the roads SUCK. So, hit up Sydney for a lovely getaway vacay, do some amazing convict tours, have a wine or 5 at the Opera Bar! Enjoy some fabulous restaurants, and of course boat trips out in the harbour... lovely!!! But I wouldn't live there ... not even if I could afford it. One major difference being - people. I've lived in many different places in Australia, and Sydney-siders are really quite rude unfortunately 😔 I do take pride in the fact that Melbourne + her residents are usually extremely friendly, open to chatting strangers and not so hung up on having to be a "certain way" to be accepted ❤
Foccachia sandwiches is not a trend or new phenomenon. They've been all over the place for as long as I can remember.