Serious question, but I hope someone with experience in both (or another compared 1st-tier city) will be able to corroborate:
I've noticed a bit of a trend of Sydney having features of the NYC of Australia. By this I mean single, attractive (or above-average looks), professional-type girls moving there from elsewhere in Australia and around the world. These tend to be university-educated 25 y/o + women, what would be called the ex-sorority type in the US, working mainly in the creative or advertising fields or NGO's.
Some of these have even moved from Melbourne and Perth, of all places, and a handful of single European girls I've met travelling in Asia have chosen Sydney to expat to. These are above-average looking specimens, by any standard,
not the bottom-of-the-barrel stuff that is said to flock to here.
How much of a truism is that? Does Sydney really draw the unattached, above-average looking girls wanting to live the SATC type dream in the sense that NYC is so commonly said to do? In this thread, there's mention of the forward nature of NYC girls, despite the overall frigidness of the population (the whole big city feel). From my very limited experience with Sydney as an adult, the city wasn't as abrupt in manner as NYC or London, but found the women to be a bit more receptive, or bubbly —
this has been corroborated by other members.
In a holistic sense, Melbourne is said to have more in common with NYC than Sydney, but that's more to do with the foodie, hipster and music scenes. I know a lot of Sydney musos have relocated to Melbourne for that reason (damn lockout laws).
I've got a chance to relocate to Sydney for work, and I want to find out how much of a truism is this theory. I do want to experience the latter part of my youth living the big city experience elsewhere, and the crux of my question is — as I'm not outright looking to settle down, and I want to parlay my game into an abundance of hot women living the aforementioned "footloose and fancy free" lifestyle —
how does this status quo (if indeed the truth) stack up against NYC, or for that matter other big cities such as London, Copenhagen, Hong Kong, St. Petersburg, Toronto, or Boston? I understand that lifestyle, bankroll, field of work (PM me), and race (?) will factor into the equation.