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We must be good at bribing the Judges....
Pity we didn't Bribe the World Cup selectors instead....;p
Canada has been hogging the limelight for a few years....but recent riots.....
Weird thing is....we're itching to get back to/see more of NY ...and they only came in 50-somethingth....;p
As Melbourne citizens keep telling us ... 
Sydney will be upset ... they are all strange up there anyway, can't even kick a ball.
only thing wrong with Melbourne is it doesn't have Sydney Harbour... or the Bridge... or the Opera House... 
I could go on.... 
Ah, but it does have a Jafo.... and when the judges realise this, Melbourne will be brought down a peg or three to compensate.
I mean, who else gets around in a blue helmet that reminds you of YMCA and that Village People bloke? 
nearly 3am.... seems aussies are insomniacs... 
gonna be hummin' YMCA now.... thanks Starkers.... 
Why hum it when you can sing along to it http://www.lyricsondemand.com/onehitwonders/ymcalyrics.html 
We have Chicago here in IL . "The Worlds Most Leavable City"
Peoria comes in a close second.
I guess where I am Middleburg.. perhaps the most redneck city.. 
Others.. may disagree.
Just kind of wierd that all the action in Middleburg is on Johns Cemetery Road.
lol 
Folks are just dyin' to get there...
The way Jafo complains about the heat, I had the impression it was hell on earth.....
Didn't they all move to DC?
I would have thought Detroit owned that title. The place is a ghost town. Last time I went there I was expecting to see a sign saying 'last one out, turn the lights off'.
It's a cap....like a baseball cap....only it's a FIA Race Official's cap...where Blue designated the Observers....;)
the list ...
1. Melbourne, Australia
2. Vienna, Austria
3. Vancouver, Canada
4. Toronto, Canada
5. Calgary, Canada
6. Sydney, Australia
7. Helsinki, Finland
8-- Perth, Australia
8-- Adelaide, Australia
10. Auckland, New Zealand
Looks like Australia and Canada have the most livable cities.
... the cost of living would hurt Sydney ... but you are on the top ten.
Ok, so you made me check out and look at pictures of Melbourne and agree it was beautiful.
Not one picture was bad as Jafo wasn't in any of them, thank goodness.
the dead centre of the town... 
that's really becoming a problem too... especially when you read that it's more expensive to live here than in New York... real estatewise as well... 
I've always been fortunate enough to live on the harbourfront, close to the city, pretty and cooler... if I had to live out west in the heat and the traffic....I would prefer to live in Melbourne.... even though it's toooo cold..... love the Melbourne summer heat.... very dry compared to Sydney's more humid summers. Trafficwise... Melbourne is far better planned and easier to navigate... Sydney grew like Topsy...all over the place like Brown's cows...
Melbourne does have alot going for it... the Dandenongs is one of my favourite places.... and the antique shops are wayyyy better than Sydney's.... and the architecture leaves Sydney well behind.... but.. love the Harbour....nothing better than being out there on a warm sunny day.... it's beautiful...
So many pretty daytrips within and hour to an hour and a half outside Melbourne... in Sydney... you contemplate the traffice getting out... and usually give it a miss...
I've been to six of those ..... 'should' really get to Perth and Auckland some time, too...;)
It's the harbour that causes all the traffic pain in Sydney.... nice to look at but crap for infrastructure.
You DO realise Sydney has more wet weather than Melbourne, don't you?
Then there's the 'Major Events'..... just about the only ones Melbourne doesn't host are...
Tour Downunder [Adelaide]
RedBull air race [Perth]
WRC [rallye] [Perth]
No mention of Sydney.... heck, even the Sydney to Hobart makes a point of LEAVING Sydney ....;)
Oh...forgot....Bathurst...the Yobbos' car race ...You have that.....;)
Yeah.... but it all comes down in one big deluge then goes away..... Melbourne's slowly drizzles like forever....
but.... it's lovely to be out on the harbour having a lovely smorgasbord luncheon in amongst 'em as they leave... then the silly buggers are on their own...
Melbourne has certainly worked hard at getting the major sporting events... it's more of a sporting orientated people down there.... (we just like the big ones like the Olympics... )
Sydney also misses out on the major art exhibitions which pisses me off no end... I've been told it's because Vic and ACT gov gives more $ funding them.. for insurance etc than NSW... hoping that will change in the future.
Been meaning to come down to the Tutankhamun at the Melb Museum.... Egypt's always been on my bucket list... but I remember seeing a Tut one at the Sydney Museum, I think in the 90's, which was excellent.
Fred Williams is also about to do the Canberra and Melbourne run...but then again... he is a Melbourne artist... not many people in Sydney have even heard of him. I did get to the last major one he had at the Melb Art Gallery quite awhile back now though...
We are however getting Picasso at the end of the year.... looking forward to that... 
There are pros and cons to both cities... but I can see why Melb was chosen as more/most livable... we are, at the moment, paying people $7.000 to sell up and leave Sydney and go to rural town centres.... too many people want to live here... and planning just isn't keeping up... link..
and I so miss Pellegrini's 
We had those [first] ...and the C'wealth Games too....;)
Re the Yarts ... my sister's portrait of the PM is in the gallery in Sydney .... she's up there frequently.
As for 'Big Ones' ... I work at 4 of them - The Australian Formula One GrandPrix [second oldest - only France is older]...the MotoGP ... The World Superbikes, and the third largest [after those 2] Bike meet... The Historics at Phillip Island - gets people like Agostini there, even.
Even the oldest [first] road race [bikes] - older than Le Tour ... is in Melbourne [Melbourne to Warrnambool]...;)
Aw shucks, syd, think nothing of it.
Hehe, at least I didn't say "strutting the streets of Melbourne like a Macho, macho man..... "
Oh bugger, that ruins the illusion of sunnies and a peaked, open face motorcycle helmet, don't it? 
[time to start wearing my specs I think]
Orright then..... I've amended it
"I mean, who else brings down property values by wearing a F1A Race Official's cap and worrying the crap out of everybody that neighbourhood streets are being turned into a race track."
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