Most expensive place in the world to live gets you:
-Worst traffic
-Most expensive tolls in the world, and they're every where... $2.50 + $.55 cos your tag isn't going to work just to use a farking ramp.
-Crap hospitals
-3rd world infrastructure
-REALLY bad public transport
-$5/hr parking at the beach
-An army of parking rangers with fine quotas
-4,600,000,000 people (antisocial crowds of retards every where you go)
-Hands down the most inept government any populace has ever had to endure
-Cops hiding in the bushes with radar guns
Seriously I can't think of anything good Sydney has that another city doesn't offer... unless we include 1 Opera house only the rich can afford to use, and a congested iron bridge you have to pay $4 to cross.
Yes - I'll never forget the first time I jumped on the manly ferry ( and that sideways swell half way across 
) and that beautiful bay outlook when you jump off the ferry at manly.... and the big well priced feed at the Leagues Club and excellent beer prices and nice waitresses to look at 
) and that beautiful bay outlook when you jump off the ferry at manly.... and the big well priced feed at the Leagues Club and excellent beer prices and nice waitresses to look at
) and that beautiful bay outlook when you jump off the ferry at manly.... and the big well priced feed at the Leagues Club and excellent beer prices and nice waitresses to look at 
you have to pay to look at the waitresses now? 
Hell spend over 2 hrs in an inner city parking building Mon - Fri and it can cost you over $50! But if you do an early bird and stay all day can get away with $30.
Sydney has 3 redeeming features:
1. The road north
2. The road south
3. The road west.
Hmmm, i was born in the middle east, egypt to be exact. quite frankly every aussie city is awesome compared to pretty much anywhere else, even crowded old Sydney. Its ok to have a bit of a whinge but seriously even crapsville australia is better than 99 percent of the rest of the world.
For one thing, there are plenty of jobs, well, relatively so.
There being plenty of jobs means that there are also plenty of people, and sometimes too many. Of course, this then means high prices and people jam packed. (Don't ask my why WA house prices are higher than Sydney, when they have a heck of a lot more available land)
In my experience, in IT, work is easier to find in Sydney than in Melbourne or Canberra, so there is an upside. If you want a better lifestyle move to Wollongong or Newcastle, but be prepared for less variety of jobs being available.
Flysurfer: Just curious, what general area of Sydney do you live?
i grew up in sydney cbd working and loved it.
lived on the southside and loved that also. the surf, diving, national parks, sailing was great too.
i think its like anywhere, until you find the good points you will dwell on the bad.
There's plenty of good points as others raised, especially don't forget there's bloody good food too. I grew up and got smart and left, now I just come to visit and play.
So sure Sydeny
comes with the obvious -ives but there are plenty of gems as well if you have the right attitude. I'd let you in on them but then every other one of the +4mill will join in too and then the gems will be **** too.[}:)] catch 22 eh!
