I grew up in Brisbane and, like many of my friends, couldn't wait to leave. 'Boring Brisbane' was its usual nickname in those days. Some friends returned, many didn't. Though I admit it has improved somewhat since then, I still wouldn't visit it at all if I didn't have family there. I did leave at 21 and have lived in diverse places, including London and Melbourne, and only once returned to live whilst I was at university. Other family members have also since moved away, including my parents upon retirement, with only one sibling's family now remaining there. Of course, many people love Brissie and will not relate to my reasons for leaving but, for a start, I find it definitely too hot and humid for half the year. Despite now being a larger city, it still lacks sophistication and a wide range of cultural choices. The arts community does its best but offerings are limited and most international acts and shows do not go to Brisbane. Traffic is appalling, with endless roadworks as the Council never quite catches up with the increasing population. Shopping is also limited mostly to chain stores, as it doesn't yet have the population to support a lot of private retailers. For most Brisbanites, the casual dress code is part of its appeal but I enjoy the chance to dress up at times. Most restaurants will still accept diners wearing only shorts and t-shirts. After years away, I have finally returned to Queensland but NOT Brisbane! Being no longer interested in city life, I am now up the coast a bit, so can drive easily to see family. Summer months are still too hot but I find them more bearable nearer the beach with the sea breezes.

I loved Brisbane as I loved my homeland , I had my best time in my life when I was doing my degree at QUT. I was upset when I had to go back home and I feet my soul still hanging in there between its trees and mountains, I can not forget how friendly and polite the people were and how clean and civalised the city. I am from a very wealthy country and never thought of migrating to any place on the planet except to this amazing country just to live again in happiness. Love You Aussies .

No one mentioned Movieworld, Dreamworld, Seaworld, Surfers Paradise and Australia Zoo all within easy reach. Beautiful City, can’t wait to go back.

guy:'the public transport is pretty good.' the next guy:'the public transport is not ideal.'

This reminds me of when I was in Brisbane for travel. I can feel it from the video. Such a friendly, laid back, humane city.

I am from Los Angeles and have been to Brissy three times and it's a VERY clean and well-appointed city. No trash on the sidewalks or homeless people sleeping in tents. The people are pleasant but don't expect too many mind-blowing conversations. Probably a great place to raise children.

Lived in Brissie for 10 years and absolutely loved it. I would add that it's a really attractive city at night, and the river running through it and all the parks and Abundant greenery are a highlight. It's the jump off place for South East Queensland, which is jam-packed full of awesomeness. Australia is so huge that it's awesome when you can have so much to see and do, that's so diverse, in a comparatively compact area. Very practical when you have limited time on a limited budget.

I lived in Brisbane for 5 months around 6 years ago and I never missed a place more than I miss Brisbane. Wish I could go back..

Brisbane- Laid back, good suburbs Sydney and Melbourne- Chaos Perth-(where I live) lonely and awesome

Brisbane will host the 2032 Olympics . Enjoy the low key feel now before the world hears about it and moves in .

I disagree with the girl that said people are rude. I’ve been living here for over thirty years and people are so friendly. I’ve lived in Melbourne and Sydney and they are less friendly (especially Sydney) plus the weather (minus the humidity) is great!

I'm coming to Brisbane in February to study one semester abroad. Seeing this video definitely confirms my choice of Brisbane instead of Melbourne or Sydney!

Born and raised in the bush and Brissie is my favourite capital city by far. Use public transport to avoid traffic congestion on the roads, especially during peak times. Base yourself in Brisbane and you’re an hour from the gold and sunny coasts, 30 mins to Ipswich and 90 mins to Toowoomba.

I'm probably going to sound like one of those rude people the lady mentioned but like overlooking Brisbane is what is keeping this city the great way it is now. Tourism helps for sure, but put a city out on the map and eventually growth will bring with it standard city problems, like the bloke was mentioning about. If the people want Brisbane to be at the level of Sydney and Melbourne, they must be ready for the downsides that come with it too. Also public transport for the most part is pretty decent. People just need to take it.

A friend of mine lived there for two years and loved it apart from it being in the wrong time zone. She hated the fact that barely an hour after getting home from work it was dark year round and really missed the light evenings of a European spring and summer.

I have been thinking of going to there for studying for a while (I live in Sweden so its really far away)

I wouldn't say it the best city in Australia, but it's definitely a must-go... Nice places, good weather, good public transport, and a nice infrastructure. Not so expensive as Sydney and Melbourne and pretty close to good beaches like Sunshine and Gold Coast. Great city!

Brisbane has cleaned up heaps over the years, great place. I'm not a fan of the muddy brown river though... BUT great city!!! xox

I live in Brisbane but I think the best cities for a tourist to go to are Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth. I’m not saying Melbourne and Sydney are bad but the last time I went to Melbourne it was really dirty and packed but at least you can go to the MCG, and Sydney is quite polluted. I went on a 100 km bike ride in Brisbane and I rarely went on a road that’s how good it is. And I wouldn’t really recommend Canberra unless you want to visit places like The Parliament House, Questacon, the war memorial or the mint, I wouldn’t really recommend it. I’m not sure about Darwin or Hobart you can go there if you want. But yeah brisbane is my favourite City yet.

I wish i lived in Brisbane 😥 im from the USA

I've never heard people saying that Australians are rude. Especially people in Brisbane!

Im born and lived in Brisbane my whole life. Iv travelled and lived in Germany. I miss down under bar back in 2011 to 2013.

Brisbane is actually my favourite Australian city. I’ve never been to Melbourne yet but having been to Canberra, Sydney and Adelaide... Brisbane is by far my favourite.

I lived there for 7 months as a student. It's pretty awesome and chilled city, in comparison with Sydney and Melbourne I would like to give it the first choice in Australia to live and my friends who asked me where to go for studying in Australia they all ended up in Brisbane and still there. The bad thing I don't like about Brissy is supermarket it closes so early around 6 pm excepts Wednesday (I can't remember). Also, night life is a bit dull. But this experiences are years ago.

I live in the northern suburbs of Brisbane now I was originally form Alice springs and I never seen traffic in my life

I live here now. The transportation thing is probably that bus don't come on time or don't come at all. A bit unreliable, but it covers quite well. There're a lot of good restaurant and cafe. West End has plenty of cool thrift shop. It could be peaceful for some and boring for the others tho. I feel scared sometimes at night walking alone. There're a lot of homeless in the city. The street is pretty clean.

Brisbane ,gold coast and sunshine coast is the best part of Australia by far Sydney is like London and I left that hole and Melbourne ia awful with hardly any Australians left there canberra is boring as batshit and freezing while Perth and Adelaide is totally sterile

I reckon the trains are good here buses not so much and we're not rude, I find people in Sydney are ruder, I think we're a more relaxed easy going city. You know we have it pretty good in Brisbane, best part about this city is the weather we hardly get winter :).

I can agree with more welcoming. When I was there I liked everything except traffic

Weirdly the back-to-back comments about public transport are both kinda right, there's a lot of public transport options around brisbane (ferry, train, tram, buses, scooters) but they're not very clearly signed, or well scheduled or super reliable. The infrastructure is there, it's just not run that great. wouldn't matter if you were on holiday and not on a tight schedule though.

I wish I could go to Brisbane but it’s... no wait, actually I might visit it in April.

find me posted on the southern outskirts of Brisbane in my hometown of Woodridge aka the hood.

Tourism Australia will be putting this on TV in no time, you'll be the next Lara Bingle m8!

0:48 So much to do in Brisbane? Has she really been here 3 years? I like Brisbane and have lived here most of my life. Compared to other cities like Sydney and Melbourne, Brisbane is dull. Having said that, that's how I like it here 👍 relaxing lifestyle

I think it’s interesting right there maybe i will complete my degree in QU after all✔️💛

Brisbane, got great memories there.

Brisbane is love

Man I wish I could visit Brisbane one day.

Best city in Australia.

Australia is a big place

Brisbane doesn’t get a enough credit and it’s the best city in Australia

Great medium size city . I my book the most liveable and prettiest in Australia. Leave Sydney out. Lived in Sydney best suburbs for 25 years. Melbourne great. More nature around Brisbane than any other Australian city as that guy pointed out. I don't live in Brisbane.

Good city but people there don't like to talk with stranger trying to improve their english level. I prefer London or maybe Melbourne / Sydney

Brisbane is cool and all but I prefer Melbourne. I can't wait to go back whenever this damn Covid shit dies down.

Such a good quality video

Culture lifestyle and big city feeling with good public transport: Melbourne Laid back city with great bike rides and beautiful scenery and good weather: Brisbane Isolation, a bit of a change,: Perth Tourism, good food big houses and shit: Sydney

I live in brisbane

I want to live there and work there

Brisbane's boring af. You have to go to GC or SC for the beach, fly to the ski field's (or drive over 13hrs to get to Jindabyne). The only good thing is the night life in the Valley.

Brisbane is awesome... super laid back. Lived here 4 years now.., from Melbourne (which is great in a different way) It’s like a country town meets a city

Come to Logan…. Gods country

“Brisbane’s better than Sydney, but not as good as Melbourne.” The truest thing I’ve heard today.

Melbourne for me, is the best city in Australia. The weather, quality of life, the culture scene & even the people are very classy. Even the houses there seem to be more upscale. But the living cost is too damn expensive! Just to give everyone an idea, it’s even more expensive than the UK!!! But Australia overall is more expensive than the US & Canada. Brisbane, is a 2nd choice for me. It has the right balance of city life & nature. But it’s very humid during the summer. You really sweat a lot even more than being in the desert! Sydney, on the other hand, is really vibrant & exciting, but more of a tourist spot rather than a place to actually live in. Nowadays, Sydney is actually becoming another extension of China. I won’t be surprised if one day, China would claim it as another one of their territories. LOL..

I live in Brisbane it is the best ever!!!

I wish i could go to Brisbane but i am a couple thousand dollars short to be exact $2,820 short

brisbane may be clean but holy f*ck the roads are so broken and shit

Miss Brisbane & Gold Coast

hmm need to think

will definilety go

To me Brisbane is a pretty much laid back version of Sydney, but Melbourne is better overall.

Anyone knows the music in the background?

Brisbane is the best

Cap the best part about brisbane is the airport

Brisbane, my favourite city in the whole world

I love the video! I live near Brisbane myself. Just wondering what mic do you use?

I've been all over the world and Brisbane is the best place ever sans the homeless.

Not really...

Though at the Goldcoast and the Sunshine Coast ,the bouncers at nightclubs are absolutely shit .. you’re been thrown out for drinking , if they think your are to drunk without hurting anybody or annoying any one .. other then that , yes Brisbane area is a wonderful place .. been there heaps of times ..

Brisbane is the " Go"

Access to real food McDonald???? holly molly.....what kind of diet is that? There are plenty of good restaurants in Brisbane and all this guy can think of is McDonald. That's sick!!!

Aw we only made a couple of seconds of it Nice vid though bud

Melbourne's like a bigger, better version of BrisVegas. Brisbane tries to compete with Sydney and Melbourne, lol.

I'm coming! in... 4 days! Still haven't planned my trip though. Haha

Brisbane is the best city in Australia👌

spoiled now but australia's cities actually look like united states cities as craZy

that,s right Brisbane is good city to leave but according to me it is worst place by the local people there as i was there for 4 to 5 years, and what i found selfless people mean at all, no help from no one there, whatever i found just by my hard work there, no body supported at all , this is what i thought and found explained,

It’s a boring place with no class or style where everything closes at 6 pm, where fashion dies and where people think of things like laundry as luxury. Everything is luxury! The food is good but the restaurants are like from the 80s

I wish I could go to Brisbane but It's too expensive for me. Lol. It's just one of those can only do it once per life time.

Public transport on Brisbane is so good u just need to learn how to use it

Do more videos in brisi

What! The public transport isn’t ideal? I understand it can fail, and when it fails it fails bad, but when it works properly its fine

Don't come here in summer ,come here in winter ,spring or late late summer ......DO NOT come here in December -februrary it's a humid ,putrid swamphole full of mosquitoes and the tropical heat and humidity is mind alteringly bad

Already been there before.

as you can see from my malaysian flag i aint no vietcong or punjabi, im malaysian singapore indonesia brunei. my business is for me.

Not anymore...

Traffic what Traffic, come to London for Traffic

is that Australia or California?????

Can't wait to move to Brisbane and this video didn't help at all lol

No. No. And no.

I love this city 😍😍😍, Can anyone send me an invitation to come 😭😭😭

omg i just realized the woman in ponytail is wearing a black shirt that says "anti hentai"

They talked alot about traffic l have to say that traffic in brisbane is nowhere near as bad as Melbourne and Sydney. These two state are the worst traffic ever especially Melbourne its become unbearable. This is why l recently moved here...

PEOPLE HERE IN INTERNET CALLED BRISBANE PEOPLE AS THIEF AND SHAME?

Come on Brissy is way better than Melbourne

It's a beautiful city ,just needs a little bit more. How's fortitude valley bring back all the good old niteclubs, Roxy, terminus, Tony,s tit club downunder, images, cockertoo bar or beat,transformers.and the great dj,s, bring it on with the true music. Not techno wat shit.

Perth rules!

Brisbane is better city than Melbourne

Oh... Those being interviewed probably never been to north east Asian countries . Brisbane is pretty dead in my opinion.

Pretty silly huh

i live here lol