"The Yarra is often referred to “the river that runs upside down” due to its muddy coloured water - caused by significant land clearing and development after the 1800s which resulted in tiny clay particles being washed downstream. The murky appearance of the river doesn't mean it's not clean."

We have many world-renowned wine regions. Coonawarra, the Barossa Valley, Clare Valley, Mclaren Vale, the Limestone Coast, the Hunter Valley and Margaret River, to name a few of the most prominent.

Australia has a lot of very good wine spread across the country. The wine region near Melbourne (about an hour or so from the city) is Yarra Valley, but there's also Hunter Valley in NSW, Margaret River in WA, plus there's a few around Adelaide including Barossa Valley and Adelaide Hills.

My home for 20 years and I adore Melbourne. Yes the tram in the CBD is free. The best coffee in Australia. Amazing restaurants and coffee. Wonderful people. We have a huge multi-cultural community and it is reflected in the food and generally we are pretty cool people.

I live in Melbourne and surprised that he did not show 'the great ocean road' as 'a must' when you visit our great city.

Been in Melbourne since 1996, love it.

I grew up in Melbourne, and yes, it is very livable...lol Victoria as a whole offers so many fantastic sights, sounds and tastes. Sydney is great for a visit, Victoria is the place to live. I live not far from Bendigo, which was once the world's wealthiest city. It is beautiful and full of history.

Australia has 72 wine regions . Famous for its red wine mostly. Barossa Valley , mclaren vale , hunter valley, Margaret river, just to name a few

I live in the perfect spot in Melbourne, about 30 mins from the heart of the Dandenong Ranges and the same into the city on the freeway. That also puts me about ten minutes away from the Yarra Valley, where all the great wines of Victoria come from. What a shame lol. It’s country enough to be very green and have the occasional kangaroo hop past but still be only half an hour from the city’s heart by car-very livable indeed :).

Australia has amazing wine, so many different wine districts. Worth exploring.

The Aussie dollar is approx .50c in the US. Millions of Koalas died in the bushfires. Was so horrible. The alleyways in the cbd are so easy to find. You can go from alley to arcade for quite a while. The traveler went North all the way to Ballarat but didn’t go south to the ‘Great Ocean Rd’. I lived at the Warrnambool end for a few yrs and it has to be one of the most beautiful places that I have ever been.

It's been named the world's most livable city in the world for 7 years in a row. Recently had to settle for 2nd behind Vienna. Melbourne has now surpassed Sydney as Australia's biggest city by the Bureau of Statistics.

Ah. Melbourne, my home town. Your half way an Aussie already Ryan. Bring your family downunder

What's great about Melbourne, you can go on through to Geelong and catch the Spirit of Tasmania for a real holiday! 😁👍 Global Travel - Best attractions in Tasmania! 🤔🥳

Bendigo is beautiful. The art gallery is stunning and I love all the old heritage listed buildings. It has just over 100,000 people. Mildura is further north in Victoria and has 34,500 people.

I love Melbourne...My daughter and grandchildren live there, and apart from that fact, I love not only the way they look after their city, but the amount of great little restaurants and cafes you can find, and their arts and music culture, which is still intact there, unlike Sydney, where I live..Their buses and trains are clean and actually run on time...They say "if you make a friend in Melbourne, you may a friend for life"...This I have found to be very true.

I live in Melbourne 😊 It's pronounced Melb'n. It's a terrific city; lots of history, contemporary culture & ppl from all over the world. The Yarra River is only brown near the estuary; upstream it's a lot clearer. The weather is unpredictable, but ya can't have everything!

Born and bred in Melbourne, wonderful diverse city. We are considered the best city for; Live Music Scene Restaurants (& amazing coffee of course) Shopping Sports - we host the Australian Open Tennis The Grand Prix Home to AFL AMD MUCH MORE ❤

👋 Happy Arvo... from Mel-bun, Ryan! Melbourne has been home for 54 years and has changed a lot in that time. Many changes for the better but some changes for worse... like a bigger population = worse traffic, less housing available for rent, exorbitant rent prices, more homelessness, etc. Overall, it's a great city, but you need a good level of wealth to really enjoy it, whereas, 40 years ago it felt a lot more liveable. Hopefully, you'll get a chance to visit one day and experience the best coffee you'll ever have. 👍

The Yarra river is exceptionally clean, there is very little to no rubbish in and along the waterway. It's always been known for it colour and locals say it runs upside down due to it's muddy bottom colour. It doesn't smell and is a flowing river. It's amazing to dine along or on it at night at any of the restaurant's and many of the high rise building and the Crown Casino over looks the river. Melbourne holds the Moomba Masters Waterskiing event on the river and the Moomba Bird Man Rally, if the water was toxic and dirty these events would not be held on it due to health concerns. The New Years Eve Fireworks display is also held on the Yarra. It has a great history for being part of the old dock/ports system dating back to early settlement and some iconic parts of the once used but long gone dock/port infrastructure like cranes and piers can be seen along the Yarra preserved for public viewing. Melbourne was designed on a grid system so it's almost impossible to get lost. My main streets, eg : Flinders Street is follow by a Little Flinders Street, Collin Street, Little Collins Street, the reason for this was the "Little Streets have alley ways that run off them that back onto the buildings on the main street and allowed for rear loading and unloading into the premises on the main street.

Wine country... You should check the different wine growing regions in Aus. I think you will find it very interesting. Different States grow different varieties according to climate and soil type, as well as the grape varieties brought into the country by different immigrant groups.

Melbourne has lots of great sights and places to visit. Historic places like the Old Melbourne Goal, the Exhibition Building & Captain Cook’s Cottage to start with. There are plenty of parks and gardens, open spaces like Federation Square. Lots of shopping, places to eat wonderful food. We have an assortment of parades and celebrations held in the CBD and lots n lots of sporting venues. Don’t forget museums, art galleries, theatres and concert halls. We even have 4 seasons in one day (as the saying goes). But like most big cities around the world (eg NY, Washington DC, London or Paris), the cost of housing is ridiculously high.

i live in melbourne and i totally agree that it’s very livable, it doesn’t have big tourist attractions so most people don’t come to sightsee, but to live, best experience out of maybe 8 cities i’ve lived in my life (pronounced melburn btw)

If you want to experience the seasons of a year fast, come to Melbourne, four seasons in a day.

3:28 I live in surburban Melbourne and traveling into the city a lot, that is simply a light that faces down to light up that area, not shown in that video but there are many places with hundreds of these on wires hanging above major places in Melbourne.

Moved from Liverpool England when I was 1, so blessed to still live here 53 years on. The best!

I grew up in Melbourne, and am lucky enough to have travel the world. No matter where I go, I always love coming back to Melbourne. There are only two city I would live in if it wasn't Melbourne, they are Osaka and Rotterdam

Australian wines have consistantly won worldwide acclaim and awards for many decades. There have been wineries in Victoria for over a century. Rutherglen is one of the oldest winegrowing areas. Yarra Valley is another famous Victorian wine growing area. Victoria is riddled with wineries. South Australia is also reknowned for its wine industry and the German settled areas around Renmark, Hahndorf region are exceptionally pretty and would satisfy any oenophiles (wine enthisiasts). Margaret River in WA is also well represented in world-wide competitions. Tasmania also has wineries Aussie wines are world class.

The Yarra River has an interesting history. Due to regular flooding in the 1800's, it was diverted, which took it off it's natural course of bedrock and gave it a muddy bottom, which is why it's brown going through Melbourne. Upstream, it has clear water where it runs over natural bedrock. Also, Melbourne doesn't have a harbour like Sydney, it has Port Phillip Bay with great beaches all around it.

Now that infamous comments about Melbourne vs Sydney begin. :) For Americans out there, when they say "CBD" it means the central business district which Americans would call "downtown".

Thanks for checking out my home town Melbourne and the home of Australian football and Hey Hey it's Saturday last night on the news it was name Australia's biggest city in population passing Sydney and Melbourne was once the capital of Australia

Dandenong Ranges. I live right at the bottom of Mount Dandenong. Awesome views of the entire Melbourne suburbs including the CBD, which is about 30km away and a stunning drive up the mountain (well it's only about 630mtrs high). Fun fact, they had considered putting a MELBOURNE sign on the mountain at one stage similar to the Holywood sign, but the people wouldn't let it happen. I grew up in the Yarra Valley, which is also an awesome place to go for a drive. The Yarra River flows throughout the Yarra Valley and the water out there is crystal clear. It only looks muddy once it reaches a certain point closer to the city, as the river was diverted due to flooding issues years ago, but is still very clean with very little rubbish. The Yarra Valley is also one of the best wine regions in Australia.

Melbourne is great if you live close to the CBD. If you live out in the "burbs", transport is a PITA and the "culture" and entertainment tend to be somewhat lacking. But the best thing about Melbourne itself, isn't Melbourne. There are a wealth of rural and coastal locations that are within striking distance and they make for easy day/overnighter trips away from "the big smoke".

And in Melbourne (and the rest of Australia) we have water so clean we drink it from the tap. We refill reusable water bottles from the tap and bottled water is pretty much frowned upon. Until I travelled overseas I didn’t realise that this is not the case in most countries.

There is a movie made about hanging rock, called Picnic at Hanging Rock. Also it's footy season again here!

2022’s Global Liveability Index: The top 10 1. Vienna, Austria 2. Copenhagen, Denmark 3. Zurich, Switzerland 4. Calgary, Canada 5. Vancouver, Canada 6. Geneva, Switzerland 7. Frankfurt, Germany 8. Toronto, Canada 9. Amsterdam, Netherlands 10. Osaka, Japan and Melbourne, Australia (tie) That actually makes Melbourne 11th city.🥰

I’m from an eastern suburb of Melbourne and don’t go in all that often. It’s pretty easy to find you way around and has lots of history and modern aspects. You’ll loooovvveee the coffee

I have travelled all across Asia and the Pacific and my favourite city is still Melbourne!

Melbourne Great place to explore. Those snow capped looks like Southern Alps here in New Zealand.

Wine country- Victoria,Yarra valley and the Mornington peninsula, Western Australia - Margaret river, South Australia - Barossa and Clare Valleys, NSW - Hunter Valley.

1 hour from Melbourne is Geelong. 2nd biggest city in Victoria (Melbourne 12:57 is 1st). Lots of wineries, picturesque Waterfront & beaches, coastline, bush land & rainforests surround. The AFL football team, Geelong Football Club are the current Premiers and won the 2022 Grand Final.

Hi Ryan, keep tellin ya mate, you should search the song ‘Up there Cazaly’, it was a song made years ago as a salute to the game, it’s just about an anthem and the film clips are a best moments of AFL.

West Aussie here. Been to Melbourne a few times, but too crowded, too many road tolls, and tourist attractions are just too expensive in the east....Which is why Perth has taken the lead in Australia's best cities. This is an old video sorry m8

We an emoo here in Coles supermarket, it's a button in the dairy section for kids to push to hear it go moo!😂😂

The birds are kookaburras. The organ pipes is near Hanging Rock. North West of Melbourne. There are many wine areas in Victoria.

One of the better videos you've shown. At least the information was accurate.

A lot of our red wines come from South Australia which has a similar climate (and similar quality reds) as the NAPA Valley in California. In fact, Australian and US winemakers/companies import/export each other's wines regularly.

Rivers are sometimes that colour here when there are a lot of tannins in the water due to leaves falling in. The Yarra used to be dirty, but to my knowledge it’s been cleaned up now

The Yarra River is brackish up to around Abbotsford. There was a waterfall near Market Street and it was apparently inconvenient to water traffic so it was demolished. The colour comes from pollutants and storm water not tannin from gum leaves. There are loads more gum trees around places like Warburton but the leaves don't make the water a muddy brown.

There was this one time where I went to Melbourne with my family, and we were stuck in a traffic jam because people were protesting right on the street.

Melbourne has the highest skyline in Australia. Australia 108 is the only building in the southern hemisphere to reach 100 floors.

I'm from Perth but Melbourne city is my favourite city vacation

We're currently in the AFL finals, this week is the prelim or semi finals. Next week is the Grand Final. Every week this month the Melbourne Cricket Ground or MCG or just 'the G' has been a sellout crowd of 90,000 people. Different crowds for different teams every time. Last weekend AFL and the NRL both had a finals match in Melbourne, same night. Both sellouts. The F1 car GP next April - already sold out, all three days of general admission! That's one reason Melbourne is not only the most livable city but also the sporting capital of Australia. You can jump on a train or tram from any suburb, be in Melbourne at your venue in 30-40 minutes. MCG or Rod Laver tennis and concerts, Marvel or HiSense Arena all walkable. F1 ten minute tram ride. Then there's the theatre district, with five theatres ranging from 100 years old like the Regent. Twice the seats of Sydney . Big shows run a year here. National Gallery Vic is the biggest in Oz with most visitors. Just down from Flinders Street station. Even NRL which is a second string event based in NSW and Qld gets bigger crowds in Victoria. Basically, we have more stadiums that are just - bigger.

I used to work on the 35th floor of 101 Collins Street, then the 49th floor of 120 Collins Street... it was AMAZING when there were storms and rain, and you'd often see the Roulettes (the Air Force's aerobatics team) zooming past the buildings... sometimes, you'd just about shit your pants, as they'd fly right at the buildings lol That's ace he included the Dandenongs... cos that's where I live. Best place in the world!

OMG, 12:57 into the video the VLocity train is arriving on platform at my home town in Riddells Creek - it's on the Bendigo line and I actually work for the railway company!!!

OMG I had a mouthful of coffee when he said he wasn’t a fan of the dodo brown colour of the Yarra river 😂 nearly chocked. Love Melbourne.

Ryan Was, Melbourne is an awesome city! I visit it once or twice a year. It's so different to where I live (Perth) Western Australia. This city has so much to explore. I went just last month and watching this vid makes me want to go back :) Seeing how you react to it is great!

Ryan the river was blue, but during the second world war 20,000 US soldiers went swimming in it and it hasn't been the same since.

I live midway between the CBD (downtown Melbourne) and the Dandenong Ranges (about 20-25 minutes from both), and we're considered to be an outer suburb of Melbourne. Which is nice since we're quite close to more rural areas, but can easily access the city, while having all the local amenities we need. So other than the skyrocketing real estate, it's quite good. While the city itself is great, you have to either be cramped or wealthy to live there, unless you inherited your property from previous generations. When they start looking at Bendigo, although it's a great city, we are talking about a totally different city, but one that can be done as a day trip. They could have instead spent more time in the city itself, showing things like inside the Arcades, the Melbourne Museum, the National Gallery of Victoria, the Queen Victoria Market, the Melbourne Zoo, the Aquarium, Crown Casino, the local beaches, the Royal Botanic Gardens, etc. They could have talked about state of the art Hospitals, prestigious schools and Universities, the thriving arts. Or, even if they stuck to areas closer to the outer suburbs, they could have covered the Yarra Valley wineries. Or they could have done more coverage about the various sporting facilities and major events like the Australian Open. So they made some rather strange choices for a video supposedly about Melbourne to spend so much time outside of it. As for the Yarra River, it's not brown everywhere, but at least the colour has less to do with pollution than the unavoidable presence of silt in the water.

My father used to say that in Melbourne we have only river in the world that flows upside down. With the mud on top.

Too cold in Winter, and Melbourne can keep the 'four seasons in one day' weather. They also had the second longest lockdowns of anywhere in the world - on the plus side, the food and coffee is great.

The snow you saw at the end was probably the Victorian Alps. NSW also has a selection of ski resorts (Thredbo, Smiggins Holes, Perisher Blue, Guthega, Mt Selwyn). Australia gets more snow than Switzerland.

Also if you want to know more about Aussie wines we have a large number of wine regions - Barossa in South Australia (SA) is probably our best known, but many other wineries are great too - Margaret River and Swan District in WA, Clare Valley, Eden Valley, Coonawarra, McLaren Vale, and Adelaide Hills in SA, Tamar Valley in Tasmania and Yarra Valley, Mornington Peninsula, Rutherglen and Geelong in Victoria

Australia has world class wine regions. It’s one of our biggest exports.

The Yarra might be brown down stream, but in its upper reaches is very clear and, supply's the city and suburbs with some of the cleanest water in the World.

@11:33 These mountain ranges are on the South Island of New Zealand. He was flying Jetstar to Queenstown.

I love in Ballarat, which is about 140km west of Melbourne. Victoria as a whole is very liveable - there are good freeways, highways, trains and buses all over the state. For me to go to Melbourne to watch a footy game by train costs under $10 - less during the weekend. It's about 90 minutes from the station to Melbourne City, then about 30 minutes to the MCG via a tram (or a 5 minute walk to Marvel stadium). There are some problems though. The homeless population is increasing due to the absurd cost of living increases. The public toilets are (for the most part) quite gross.

As I’ve probably said before, Melbourne is nice but too busy for me , I like the rural areas of Australia 😁

Pronounced Melburn The art in the alleyways is legal and encouraged. Ever changing and strong tourist attraction

About the color of the river, almost all rivers are brown because they pick up mud, the Yarra is like that. Also, water is not blue because it reflects the sky, it is blue because it has oxygen in it. That is why it is not grew when the weather is overcast.

Just so you know I live in Sydney and you seem to know more about AFL than I do . We play Rugby League in NSW. Before anyone gets cross we do have two AFL teams but it’s just not what I grew up with. Well done Ryan !

I saw my apartment when they were in Fitzroy, Marvel stadium is a 55,000 seat stadium with retractable roof and everywhere he went to was within a 2 hour drive of the city centre

The Yarra is an upside down river, the silt is on the top. It is actually really clean.

FYI - we do have snowfield... get more snow than the Swiss Alps.

Yes, trams are free within the free tram zone, which covers the entire CBD, and just slightly beyond, including parts of Southbank, Docklands etc. After that, the cost is based on distance and the zone you enter/exit. It's a low cost system for passengers and for the government which is the biggest in the world, and has a huge patronage. Melbourne has major events such as the Australian Open, one of the four Grand Slam events worldwide. It also hosts the Australian Grand Prix - the only formula 1 race in Australia (though that was previously held in Adelaide from 1985-1995). It is home to the Aussie Rules Grand Final - an event so big that it has its own public holiday in the state of Victoria, and is the most viewed in person and on television sports event in Australia. The Melbourne Cup is Australia's biggest horse race and is part of the Spring Racing Carnival, which features multiple events in horseracing throughout Victoria. The Melbourne International Comedy Festival is known worldwide and hosts some of the biggest names in comedy both local and international. PAX Australia is Australia's biggest gaming festival, which is hosted in Melbourne each year. Melbourne is host to the most gaming industry studios and talent, and has world class university courses for those who aspire to be in the industry. It has arguably Australia's best zoo and best food markets. And it is home to almost 5 million people. It's little wonder its considered a great city to live.

6 pts= 1 goal...through the middle goal posts.

Melbourne is soo bloody awesome. 🇦🇺🇦🇺

Just to clear thing out, @3:22 that's not a stop light, it's the lights for the open space.

As of 2021, the rankings are: 3rd - Adelaide (where I live) rated 94, 6th - Perth rated 93, 8th - Melbourne rated 92.5, and 10th - Brisbane rated 92.

As a born and bred melbournian, I’d be happy to show you around Ryan 😊 And that snow might be the Snowy Mountains?!

Melbourne is beautiful I live about about 100km west of Melbourne great video Ryan 👍🇦🇺

Organ Pipes is near where I live. It is part of greater Melboune and approx 20km from the CBD

The amount spent on public transport is based on periods of time, the minimum is about $5 for 2 hours and a daily cap of about $10.

No Perth Western Australia is the most livable now. ✌😎

The Yarra River once was blue until a giant Duststorm hit victoria from the south Australian state back in the early 80s

Melbourne is now Australia’s largest city, overtook Sydney a few days ago!

Australia has the world's best wine

....and it just overtook Sydney as Australia's largest city. I live just across the state border in NSW, but my city of choice to visit is always Melbourne. Much more to do activity wise if you're not into beaches It's a little bit of Europe in Oz. Admission. I follow AFL, not League, and it's great to go to the footy to see my team, the Carlton Blues.

Melbourne status suffered much under COVID shutdowns having had the longest total of over 260 days of lockdowns. Even now the central city remains stressed by lack of people as many workers have taken to "work from home" and are disinclined to return to city offices affecting businesses like cafes and other shops. The city is suffering from lack of activity by reduced presence of people. There are too many factors of changes in last few years to go through here. Melbourne has many things to worsen its status at present. Basically though in broad perspective it is and remains a great place, lots of parks and remains tops on entertainment, sport, cafe/restaurants and arts. Sydney may have its Opera house and "Coat hangar" bridge but to those knowing Melbourne , has much to catchup on. Rivallry remains between these two cities, with all likelyhood that Melbourne population seems headed to exceed Sydney in not too distant future. Not sure if that is really a positive though.

Australia has many world-class wine regions. The Yarra Valley is about an hour east of the city, 20 minutes from where I live at the foot of the Dandenong Ranges. I love living here and would never go back to Canada permanently. Melbourne is home now.❤

In my opinion Melbourne is so underrated, it’s very multicultural here, all though Melbourne is not perfect the people here are amazing, yes you are gonna run into some nasty people but majority of people here are really welcoming!, Melbourne offers heaps of opportunities!, I love Melbourne, Melbourne is home.

I was born in Melbourne and moved to QLD nearly 40 years ago. Have been back a few times and as much as I love and miss it, it's just too darn cold. Other than that, great food, great shopping, great people. I have been back a couple of times though.

I'm an hour down the road towards the Great Ocean Rd. It's a lot more relaxed then the city. Melbourne is nice but very busy. ❤🐨

trust me as somebody who has lived their whole life in melbourne it was just a marketing scam to turn melbourne into one of the worlds most expensive places to live

First five of those are in South Australia, some close to our beautiful planned City. The Hunter s in NSW and Margaret River down the coast from Perth, WA

Yarra used to be clear... you could even see jellyfish in it from the surface! But its now brown due to pollution, the brown yes is from the leaves however it is enlarged due to the deforestation further up the river.

Most of. The main rivers in Brisbane and Melbourne have many tributaries flowing into them starting in grasslands , so when it rains the dirt/color water flows into them. Sydney is mainly. Blue because it’s a harbour.

I live at the base of the Dandenong Ranges, about 40-45 minutes from the city ( so depends how deep they went up the mountain) and I am surrounded by wildlife like kookaburras, cockatoo’s, kangaroos, wombats & more, it’s pretty spectacular. And right next to the Dandenong Ranges is the Yarra Valley which is our biggest wine country spot, it’s magical. Was just out the on Saturday, would have to be one of my favourite places to drive around. You’d absolutely love it! Ohh and you’d LOVE the footy atmosphere too. Doesn’t matter who you see play (but preferably the “Essendon Bombers”…..that’s fighter jet bombers btw) the games are always so exciting. Hope you get here one day, would def be happy to be your guide around this side of town. 🇦🇺✌🏼😁

There’s also the “Australian alps” north west but quite a drive (4-6hrs) from Melbourne. That’s where you go for snow season in Aus though a lot of us go to NZ or Japan for it

Most states have their own wine region and we produce world class wines. As a West Aussie, I think our Margaret River and Great Southern wines are the best (because they are - sorry SA🙂).