By the way Melbourne is less expensive and cool place to live. Ever heard "Four seasons in one day" of crowded house .The song is written about melbourne.Melbourne has amazing weather.Melbournehosts most of AUSTRALIA'S SPORTING EVENTS . Nicole kidman, Cate blanchet,Natlie Imburlia, Hugh Jackman, Eric Bana, Russel crowe are all AUSTRALIAN. There are other tens of Australain in Hollywood. AC/DC, Silverchair,CROWDED HOUSE,Kylie minogue are all Australain bands and artist . Like hollywood there are tens of other world famous bands from Australia. Most Bands and artist go to AUS for tour.From Michael jackson to Britney spears, Rock bands like Pearl jam, u2 to RHCP, Heavy metal like metallica to Pantera,Death metal bands like TOOL to Abyuss,Punk band like RANCID to Green day and Offspring , you name it all.I dont listen to POP so I watched most rock and metal Bands and artist from USA whiel I was in AUS. Most Hollwood movies are Screened in Australia, some are screened bit late while some premiers on the same day as US. Most TV shows are same too, but shown late(After few weeksin AUS. Almost everthing is same as US , only cities and freeways are smaller , less people and Dollar value is less buuuuuuuuuuuuuut cooolllllllll to live and spend you life.