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When I first started to think about moving to Australia I thought Melbourne would be the place for me. Really the only thing that swayed me to Sydney was employment opportunities and the friends I already had in the city. Having over a year already under my belt in the country my first trip to Melbourne was going to be a very ‘what if’ ‘did I make the right choice’ trip!

Magic Melbourne

Stucros
2007-03-08 17:22:41

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could go in every arena except Rod Laver
* Con Wimbledon: with a ground pass you can really only get into court 2 and 3 if you're prepared to queue for a long time
* Pro OZ: The weather was fantastic (not always the case in Melbourne but still less chance of rain)
* Con Wimbeldon: I'd like to know the average days for uninterrupted play per tournament but I'm sure it's not high

On a more disturbing thing to blog: the day that I attended there was actually a riot/fight between Serbian and Croation fans with 150 of them being ejected from the grounds...... this is simply not tennis and while we may have our problems in the UK it is such a good example of the way people cling to
there parent heritage OZ. I've been constantly amazed with people in this country who have been born and bread in Australia but yet consider themselves to be the nationality of their parents. Yugoslavia may have never been a happy union but it really strikes me as ironic that the people will fight at tennis tournament on the basis of where there parents are from but yet when they left their country they would have been fellow country men?

Anyway from the above I think it's clear to see that I prefer the experience of Wimbledon..... it is elitist and that is perhaps not the best thing for the average tennis fan but the day there is even as much as a scuffle around centre court I will eat my straw panama hat!!!

So Melbourne really does have it all. Great bars and restaurants, fantastic shopping, top sporting events and the people are much friendlier than Sydney. 'What if' 'Did I make the right decision' absolutely!!!!!!! I'm not too sure Sydney is the best at anything but life and living in cities is about balance and Sydney has the balance of a trapeze artist walking a rope in gale I thought she looked and played better than Kirilenko but the media isn't in love with her and she lost 3-6,6-3, 6-1
force wind. I'm loving life in Sydney and hopefully will do so for the foreseeable future!