American Reacts to Melbourne, Australia 🇦🇺 - The Most Livable City in the World? Victoria, Australia

[@steveheywood9428]

Melbourne is the capital city of the state of Victoria, and I believe this vlog was made c. 2021. The Yarra river is brown due to silt particles carried from the catchment areas where it originates, and it is not from pollution. 👍

[@karlos1415]

3:52 The Yarra is naturally brown from the clay soil in the regions it flows through up north. Nothing wrong with it.

[@a_hsalem6314]

CBD - Central Business District

[@TheRubeeRose]

Four football codes in Australia ... Australian Football League (other names: AFL, Aussie Rules, Footy) ... Australian Rugby Union (other names: ARU, Rugby, Footy), National Rugby League (other names: NRL, footy) ... Football Federation of Australia (other names: FFA, soccer, football)

[@bigoz1977]

You should check out the lyre bird. It can imitate just about anything it hears from other birds to chainsaws , car alarms and camera shutters.

[@CorineaNeil]

Did you know one was raised by a family many years ago, and this family had a son who played the flute. The bird would copy the flute songs. Once released, it spread it's flute songs, and now all Lyre birds sing parts of the flute songs! Blew my mind when I found that out. Amazing birds.

[@paulcharteris9864]

Cbd is Central Business District. Aussie Rules is AFL. Dandenong Ranges was where I was born and lived and worked for 40 years. Now I am in Northern Victoria in the town of Shepparton.

[@patkelly6349]

I wouldn’t tell anyone that mate. Shepparton wow. 😮

[@michaelfink64]

The free tram system in the city centre is actually free; you don't need to pay a monthly fee or anything. The brown colour of the river is because it is muddy. It always looked that way, even when the first explorers came here. CBD stands for central business district - what you would call downtown. AFL is not a separate football code to Australian rules football, it is the peak Australian rules football competition (just as NFL is the peak competition for American football). Aussie rules is a very old game, with the first game occurring in Melbourne in 1858. The AFL has been around (in its original form, the Victorian Football League or VFL) since 1897. The rules are explained here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/q5C2opmEg8ubo68. Aussie rules is a massive part of Melbourne culture. Any kid starting at a new school will be asked two questions: 'What's your name?' and 'Who do you barrack for?' (meaning, which AFL team do you follow). Bendigo is about a 2 hour drive from Melbourne. Not sure, but I suspect the mountains were the New Zealand Alps in the South Island. Australia does have plenty of snow in the mountains, though. In fact, Australia has a greater area of snow than Switzerland.

[@llunstudiomelbourne]

Hey, just a note. The colour of the Yarra River that runs through the city, is known as the river that runs upside down. It is also the home of the Moomba International Water Ski Competition. It’s not polluted as was the insinuation, the river carries a large amount of silt brought down from its run through various tributaries, bushland areas, rock and minor rapids etc. Indeed, the native fish has returned to a lot of the river over the last 20-30 years. To answer, the CBD means Central Business District, the part of the city where trade (old markets in the 18 and early 1900s) together with modern retail and commercial spaces are located. Similar to the American term of DownTown I would expect. Hope that helps

[@paulineryan579]

And so has the platypus returned to the Yarra.

[@bernadettelanders7306]

Bendigo is 94 miles - 151 kilometres from Melbourne city. Often go to Bendigo with friends for a long weekend break.

[@norsehall309]

G'day, I live in Bendigo and it's 160km or 100 miles from Melbourne he took an express Train from Melbourne and cost would be under $10 AUD each way, cheers.

[@iamsheep]

Melbourne has some of the best coffee in the world, and I've been to Italy and France.

[@highcountrydelatite]

i dont even drink coffee and i think its terrible in melbourne

[@iamsheep]

@@highcountrydelatite are you retarded?

[@ΞΥΛΟτηςΑΡΚΟΥΔΑΣ]

Yeah nah that’s a lie

[@iamsheep]

@@ΞΥΛΟτηςΑΡΚΟΥΔΑΣ what? LOL

[@stopbunsen]

I've been out camping several times when kookaburras start laughing at like 3 or 4 am waking you from sleep. It's pretty surreal

[@kirstonemmm1423]

When you hear koalas in the night - that's scary!

[@paulineryan579]

​​​@@kirstonemmm1423 They are still cute😂?

[@top40researcher31]

The Yarra river is known as the upside down river what is on the bottom is on the top

[@CarolGration]

I grew up in Melbourne still here with my husband and we are in our 60's we have visited other places but we wouldn't live anywhere else. CBD Is Central Business District.

[@highcountrydelatite]

best thing about melbourne is the hume highway going north

[@debkendall]

Melbourne was the richest city in the world in the 1850's from the gold rush in Victoria

[@DanDownunda8888]

Melbourne was so rich that it more skyscrapers, or the then equivalent, than New York City. Because of all that money floating around, Melbourne had more than its fair share of corrupt politicians. One notable one was Thomas Bent, a Premier of Victoria. A very apt name.

[@frankie4fingers552]

Now it's a shithole thanks to Dan Andrews

[@jasondilworth2767]

Those kookaburra's wake me up just after daylight most mornings , 10 yards from my bedroom window

[@Prsboy78]

AFL, Aussie rules and footy are the same game. NRL is rugby league. Rugby union is normally just called Rugby. The CBD (central business district) has free tram travel.

[@jaynebuchanan4612]

I’m a baby boomer and was taught at school that Melbourne’s Yarra River was the ‘only’ Upside Down River in the World!! Meaning the silt rose to the surface (top), after Kew.

[@FillH2os]

The people who question whether we’re one of the most liveable cities haven’t done much travelling.

[@NisJol]

Or maybe you don’t struggle with money

[@FillH2os]

@@NisJol Or maybe that’s irrelevant or relative to elsewhere.

[@gemmaneve8052]

That arched tunnel isn't grapevines, it's a plant called Laburnum and in late spring early summer it is covered in yellow flowers! It's in a famous garden called Forest Glade in a town called Mt Macedon

[@kennethdodemaide8678]

Victoria is about the same size as the UK and occupies about 3% of Australia's land mass. It is the second smallest state in area and the second highest in population. Melbourne is the biggest city in Australia.

[@kayelle8005]

I think the population has overtaken NSW now, or it might be that Melbourne now has a higher population than Sydney.

[@kennethdodemaide8678]

@@kayelle8005 Just Melbourne. NSW has over 8 million while Victoria has just reached 7 million.

[@ACDZ123]

Nsw nearly 9 million..Sydney still busier.vic just 7 million

[@ACDZ123]

Victoria is the size of just the south West region of WA .tiny state

[@kayelle8005]

@@kennethdodemaide8678 thanks for the clarification

[@terrygold4694]

Australia has extremely good skiing and resorts.

[@Leo-hv9mm]

It does snow in Australia .. we get more snow each winter than all of Switzerland.

[@bradmurray8573]

Yes we get snow here on the mountains a few hrs drive from the centre of Melbourne.

[@adamparker9765]

CBD is short for Central Business District , basically the center of the city . Thats where the trams are free . Melbourne is very much like a European city . The food is from all over Europe and Asia and the coffee is always good. You should react to some AFL . I would suggest a beginners guide to Aussie Rules . Its fast , athletic and spectacular with constant play . You even have an armature league over there in the US and there's a player in the AFL that came from Texas , Mason Cox . There is a special on him called Dont believe in never. Australia does have more snow than Switzerland but that last shot is obviously New Zealand.

[@triarb5790]

That's the Southern Alps of South Island, New Zealand...he's flying to Christchurch. I do that trip all the time. Love flying over the alps on a clear day.

[@daveamies5031]

CBD = Central Business District, aka "the City", all 3 can be used interchangeably as was done in this video. Victoria is a small state, it's about 1/3 of the size of Texas, so Bendigo is not far from Melbourne, under 2 hours by car or train.

[@catballoo8089]

Bendigo is about a 2 hour drive north from Melbourne on the Calder freeway. Or you can catch a v-line train. Lots of good tows to see on the way.

[@TheRubeeRose]

Australia is known for it's bushfires, and yes we have had some horrific seasons, but all previous history pales in significance to the July 2019 - March 2020 season known as the BLACK SUMMER! Various factors in previous years (high temps, repeated drought, floods) brought about the worst ever season to take place! In NSW alone 5.4 million hectares burned sending recording breaking temperatures across the country. Smoke from the fires was responsible for 450 deaths, while 26 fatalities were directly caused by the fires. In total, over 18 million hectares of land burnt, creating devastating losses for biodiversity. Estimates of over 1 million animals died (koalas, kangaroos, etc) whole ecosystems devastated! Perhaps, googling "black summer" will show you what I mean.

[@Johnny152]

Actually it was over a billion animals.

[@jacquimott386]

The street art is now encouraged by the local councils around the city. Pretty much, it was a lot easier to encourage cool street art than keep trying to clean up and police illegal graffiti. We turned a problem into an attraction

[@georgiacoombes699]

Great reaction! You must do The Great Ocean Road, about 2 hours from Melbourne, it is one of the most scenic road trips in Victoria! Liked & subscribed, greetings from Australia 🇦🇺

[@ashtaafe6127]

CBD is Central Business District... And AFL is the premier league for Australian Rules... (Australian Football League)

[@mariasnow-hinkson6631]

there are 3 books about Australian Street Art / Graffiti. 'Uncommissioned Art: an A-Z of Australian Graffiti' by Christine Dew is the most recent one (2007).

[@lyndamac1058]

In 2020 just before covid we had one of the worse bush fires and we lost millions of animals/wildlife. The worst hit were our Koala's I just cried and cried seeing their burns but it was the human compassion with people going in and save as many as we could. One guy was going around and finding them and chucking in his car to take the to a rescue place. Maybe one day check that out.

[@top40researcher31]

alley ways are called lane ways in australia

[@highcountrydelatite]

alley ways also

[@top40researcher31]

@@highcountrydelatite thats an american term not austrlaian

[@highcountrydelatite]

@@top40researcher31 nope not when you are a copper....so jog on....get some service in and alley ways are used in UK and australia..stop being a sticky beak

[@peterdubois65]

You should check out the video What is AFL?

[@arfyseal]

or maybe a beginners guide to afl its more up to date .

[@foghornleghorn5882]

CBD = Central Business District It’s what we called downtown

[@KayeNash-g2o]

You'll have to take a trip over here 😃🇦🇺🇦🇺

[@ariadnepyanfar1048]

Australia does have extensive snow fields in the SE of the continent in Winter, with great downhill and Nordic ski mountains. They’re 4-6 hours drive beyond the Melbourne and Sydney tho. If you want to see the Graffiti, you HAVE to get good current map directions first. Some KZbinrs have wandered through the CBD for literally 3 hours without finding one good alley of it. My mum was a design lecturer, and she used to take her students on a tour of some of the graffiti alleys once a year. Our artists did start with bored teenagers just tagging trains and train line fences with black spray paint for a couple of decades before some of them got really elevated at it. We do still have a lot of the ugly stuff all over train lines. But kids have to get their start somewhere right? Australia makes reeeeally good wine. There’s plenty of places around the continent that are good wine areas. The most famous is the Barossa Valley in South Australia. You’ve heard a kookaburra laugh before. It’s used all the time in movies in jungle scenes as if it’s a monkey laughing/making noise.

[@simbob26]

Even though those mountains at the end were not in Australia, there are many snowy mountains here… in fast there is a region called “The Snowy Mountains” in southern NSW. These mountains are part of the Australian Alps, which receive more snow every year than Switzerland does…

[@aussiekit9172]

You do know that the snowy mountains run from NSW and into Victoria!!! 🧐🙄

[@simbob26]

@@aussiekit9172 the Australian Alps do, but they are only called the Snowy Mountains in NSW. At the border they become the Victorian Alps.

[@jessovenden]

Our Yarra river should be world famous. It’s the only river where the mud is on top! I apologise. My dad taught me that half a century ago…

[@MelodyMan69]

We used to say the River runs UPSIDE DOWN.

[@jessovenden]

@@MelodyMan69 Yes we did. 😌

[@biernut8723]

@@MelodyMan69 A muddy brown river should NOT be world famous. It's a bit embarrassing actually. Melbourne, clean your river.

[@thetechman143]

AFL means Australian Football Legue. Australian rules, just means rules in AFL. CBD means Central Business District, City for short.

[@SimonMc-u7x]

Hay mate - love your video-I miss living in Victoria

[@meee6836]

There are 4 different codes of football here Charlie, AFL, Rugby League, Rugby and Soccer with a tiny smattering in some places of American Football.

[@elizabeth10392]

Thanks for pronouncing Melbourne correctly 🙂

[@namelesswarrior4760]

The grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence

[@kirstonemmm1423]

Bendigo is about 2 hours from Melbourne city, train or car is around about the same depending on the obvious things.

[@craigcalvert7691]

The Australian Football League (AFL) plays Australian rules football.

[@lynndally9160]

A great video to watch is AFL Aussie Rules Explained

[@jasonlampa]

I just moved here for a working holiday and man, I have to say, Melbourne is cool as fuck!

[@joandsarah77]

Australian Rules Football is AFL. The Australian Football League is the professional mens league.

[@robert-brydson-1]

Melbourne has half the rain of Sydney

[@KayeNash-g2o]

You don't mess with Kangaroos man 😂 Bendigo is 2hrs north of Melbourne, we used to live there, it was a Gold mining town & still is!

[@top40researcher31]

The white poles you see are goal posts

[@top40researcher31]

low crime rate i take a rain check on that one

[@jenniferharrison8915]

Exactly, that is definitely not true! White supremacicts, soccer riots, knives! 😏

[@tw25rw]

There's some antisocial behaviour and drugs etc, but it's generally a safe place.

[@jenniferharrison8915]

@@tw25rw Lots - plus soccer riots, nasty religious protests, sit-ins, white supremacicts, interracial street fights, African gangs, etc! 😌🌿

[@jenniferharrison8915]

@@tw25rw Yep so peaceful - soccer riots, white supremacicts, interracial street fights, African gangs, terrorist groups! 😌🌿

[@DanDownunda8888]

Charlie, kangaroos don't box, it just looks like it. The males fight and try to grab the others head to try and dominate them. They lean back on their huge tails and kick the other one on the belly with their back feet and use their sharp nails to try and disembowel their opponent.

[@CatherineReynolds-rd2hx]

Willons promitry is the best thing in vic

[@AprilShowers560]

@@CatherineReynolds-rd2hx Wilson’s Promontory?

[@julesmarwell8023]

Melb is the cultural centre of Aust

[@AprilShowers560]

No, AFL and Australian Rules is the same thing. There’s only 3 types of football in Australia. AFL, rugby and soccer. I think there might be two different types of rugby but I dont follow rugby at all so I’m not sure.

[@kayelle8005]

Rugby Union and Rugby League are different codes

[@dianneking3616]

Melbourne won most Liveable City 4 times. It’s not a ? Mark it’s REAL we won 4 times. Love my City.

[@philphil6006]

Mate Melbourne people are leaving in the droves since COVID. Not sure where the title comes from being the most liveable city. Adelaide has been nominated the most liveable city in the world a number of times.

[@LeanneAnderson-e5c]

The Yarra is not dirty. It's a mud based river not sand.

[@tw25rw]

It used to be a better place to live than now.

[@letsseeif]

With A.F.L Aussie Rules Footie, fans BARRACK for players in GURNSEYS.

[@lyndamac1058]

CBD = central business district.

[@home8630]

Our city in Australia is not very liveable or affordable, but the towns are in our state, plus nature, space really like being out of the city. CBD is Central Business District. The rivers in Australia can be different colours. It does not mean they are polluted. But sometimes it does mean that. I am not a fan of invisible pollution in the river system, that looks clear and clean, but is not and causes health problems, whether its here or overseas. Kookaburra's laugh like an evil clown, 😂. To me they are joyful, love hearing them. One day Americans will pronounce Kookaburra's name properly, like an Aussie

[@DanDownunda8888]

The most Liveable City name is never explained. An international ratings agency does its research for one specific reason. It is for Multinational Companies to see which cities in the world are the safest as far as criminality is concerned, have the best, most available healthcare etc. This information helps them decide on where is the best place in the world to send their senior executives on temporary assignments. It's a little bit more complicated than that, but it has nothing to do with affordability or liveability for the middle class person wondering whether somewhere is a good place to immigrate to. The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) publishes an annual Global Liveability Ranking, which ranks 140 cities for their urban quality of life based on assessments of their stability, health care, culture, environment, education and infrastructure.

[@highcountrydelatite]

@@DanDownunda8888 melbourne has massive crime

[@DanDownunda8888]

@@highcountrydelatite 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@heatherfruin5050]

Bleak City is too cold for me.

[@brenreeves9496]

You should do a video on AFL footy. It’s the best game in the world!!

[@dianeoriander8276]

Australia has more snow than Switzerland

[@davidbarlow6860]

And oz is about 2500 times bigger.

[@top40researcher31]

AFL and australian rules are the same thing

[@JustIn-mu3nl]

Turning into the California of Aust, longest lockdown during C0vid. It was great back in the day, cheapest electricity in the world, now one of the most expensive, the ever c u n t s politicians screwed the manufacturing and middle class. Melbourne is riding on it's coattails. That said we have great climate, forests and a lot to see and do.

[@clintanson]

Great Climate??? 😂😂😭

[@mylarus]

Evil clown? God dammit! That’s all I’ll think about now.

[@TheSamleigh]

Free Tram dude. It’s not dirty water apparently some other reason - Locals will know. CBD CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT. AFL IS the footie he is talking about.

[@KayeNash-g2o]

CBD is City Buisness District!

[@anngidley3538]

Central business district

[@dabrig515]

Dont believe the Hype. More troubled everyday.

[@ItsEmmieJ]

Am I stupid ? I can not find your main channel 😭😭😭

[@kari2570]

It's called ItsCharlieVest

[@ItsEmmieJ]

@@kari2570 Thank you !! Legend !!!

[@ptd0123]

CBD central business district

[@seedy80]

The Yarra River is pronounced Yarra, not Yarra.

[@NisJol]

“Most liveable city”? Is that why there are homeless people lining the streets around every corner and in every direction, people can’t move out of their parents houses, and even the crappiest run down houses as far out as the the outer suburbs go for a minimum of 700k? I’m 29, work a full time job that pays $24 p/h and still living with my abusive mother, I travel 1 hour to get to work and pass countless homeless people and their dogs to and from. Liveable for the rich maybe.

[@Bartwon]

It’s definitely not the most liveable city - potholes - lack of road maintenance, grass overgrown on grass verges and side of freeways, graffiti ridden, Elizabeth and Flinders is a dodgy area, state is in massive debt, overtaxed hence not the Melbourne it was - sure a couple of decent bars and cafe culture

[@stephentonks4679]

This guy doesn't listen

[@munch15a]

would love some react to afl vids

[@julesmarwell8023]

cbd central business district ...

[@michaelmayo9048]

I'm only 5 minutes drive to the organ pipes and the country side..

[@adrianpalladino3388]

Why are you talking about Taylors Lakes and how many shops there are at Water Gardens lol 😂 who cares???

[@michaelmayo9048]

@@adrianpalladino3388 l thought you were extinct.

[@nat2040]

So he’s reviewing a reviewer??

[@CatherineReynolds-rd2hx]

Ausi rules and afl are the same

[@rodshepherd5769]

Street Art (graffiti) is not appealing in the slightest

[@frankie4fingers552]

Melbourne was screwed by the woke left Premier Dan Andrews....It's like Oakland Cali now...the rest of Vic is still good though

[@highcountrydelatite]

worst city in australia..

[@jenniferharrison8915]

Every single opening point no longer applies to Melbourne, unfortunately! It's broke, loud, overcrowded, has too much multiculturalism, it's no longer clean and smells bad! 😥 I'm not biased, I have family living there! 🙋

[@jessovenden]

The clue was when you complained of “too much multiculturalism”. Aren’t you just a small bit xenophobic there…? Perhaps you fear change a little bit? Many people do like Melbourne. You don’t have to! But maybe you could possibly ask yourself why you feel the need to complain about it? Stay positive mate.

[@jenniferharrison8915]

@@jessovenden Some races don't get on, it's as simple as that! Not a complaint, reality ..

[@jessovenden]

@@jenniferharrison8915 There’s truth in what you say. But by the second or third generation, historically, there are examples where that changes, to some extent. I hesitated for a moment here.. okay… When the Vietnamese people first came here in large numbers, there were some very big issues with quite a few of the young people, sorry but it happened, and those kids grew up, and their grandkids are not more likely to get troublesome than other kids. Well I hope that’s true because I didn’t check statistics because I’m lazy, sorry. But it seems like that. And the masses of immigrants from Europe after WW2 took time to get settled too. Migrating can be hard for the generation that does it, but hopefully often their descendants reap the rewards.

[@jenniferharrison8915]

@@jessovenden Actually the Vietnamese did not integrate, they were the first to create their own enclaves! Mainly, the issue is that although Australia really welcomes people who want to live in and be part of our peaceful society! Some still come with long historical cultural tensions and chose not to change or embrace our peace!

[@barnowl.]

I do live there and you are misinformed . Melbourne is a great city to live in.

[@Guvament_bs]

The weather is terrible. The traffic is terrible. The state is up to its eye balls in debt. Existing residents are leaving in droves. The river is a small dirty drain. The people are arrogant. And they are Melbourne's good points and I don't come from Sydney where everyone hates Melbourne.

[@jessovenden]

LMAO

[@CatherineReynolds-rd2hx]

True

[@barnowl.]

Rubbish. I now know by your comments that you have never lived in Melbourne.

[@Guvament_bs]

@barnowl. what did I say that is not true that only a Melbourne resident would know that a visitor would not. Is the weather good. The traffic good. Is the state not drowning in debt. Is the Yarra really a clean clear big river. Are not thousands of existing residents weekly moving to nsw and Queensland.

[@julesmarwell8023]

you forgot our marxist socialist government try to get an ambulance ?

[@top40researcher31]

Your reaction is classed as very poor on this video if your'e going to do a reaction video my advice is this *DO YOUR RESEARCH BEFORE YOU REACT* its the best way for you to understand about Melbourne and the state of Victoria its in. *I GIVE YOU THE THUMBS DOWN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!*

[@arfyseal]

errm i think the idea of a reaction video is to react to it .. its kinda hard to have a reaction to something you have researched .

[@top40researcher31]

@@arfyseal no excuse whatsoever he shold do some research to this video

[@macdac9861]

@@top40researcher31do you ever read your comments back to yourself and think, I really am a tiresome twat.

[@top40researcher31]

@@macdac9861 are you american the most gutless people who lived on this earth

[@top40researcher31]

@@macdac9861 I gather you're a yank

[@1218omaroo]

You call what we call the CBD "downtown".

[@RickyisSwan]

Australian rules football is played by local clubs, seniors and juniors in just about every town in Australia. The AFL stands for the Australian football league, which plays Australian rules football at the highest level. One is the game itself, and the other is the controlling body. "The sticks" are called goal posts. Six points equals one goal kicked between the main sticks, and 1 point either side. Grand finals, (like super bowl) attract over 100,000 spectators. 🦘🐨