Considering you're talking about Melbourne, I like your use of the word Weather for whether - freudian slip?claybro wrote:
Unfortunately, Sydney's reputation as a "world city" has been rapidly falling off in recent years, and nothing of international note has been built in Sydney probably since Sydney Tower. Even locations such as Darling Harbour are now decades old and looking tired. Sydney has been in decline since the Olympics except for its booming immigrant population. Melbourne is currently outshining Sydney in the recent building stakes let alone OS destinations. Weather we like it or not, a skyline is vital to identify a city in the absence of geographical features and this has been Adelaide's problem. No harbour, no great river, no feature mountains, and with a skyline, where the tallest building is over 20 years old and not very tall at that.
As to the other comments - Melbourne has a great harbour? Where?
Melbourne has a great river? Where?
Melbourne has feature mountains? Again, where? The Dandenongs are so far away you can't even see them. The Adelaide Hills are much more "visible".
And yet Melbourne is the place everyone says we need to look like.
As for Rev's comments about flying into Adelaide - I assume you've flown into Melbourne? The approach to Tullamarine would have to be one of the most boring views imaginable!