Sydney

Sydney has many interesting places to see and things to do.  Just a few hundred meters from the Circular Quay you can find the Opera House.  The Opera House is a unique building, located exactly on the harbour in front of the Rocks. The Rocks is where many historical buildings stretch alongside the harbour. You can catch up and chat with a Sydney sider on a cup of coffee in any of those open coffee hopes. From the Opera House, you can see the Harbour Bridge which connects north and south of Sydney’s Central Business District (CBD). Behind the Opera House is the Botanic Garden which is flourishing all months of the year.  You can see different tropical flowers and trees in this garden.  Sydney Tower stands at the heart of the city. It is 309 meters high. The top of the Sydney Tower provides a unique observatory point by which you can see all around the city. Just a few kilometers from the CBD, there are sandy beaches like Bondi Beach, Manly Beach and many others. People play, swim, surf and have sun showers on the beaches. In some area of the Sydney beaches there colourful creatures called coral polyps. These beaches are appropriate for discovering marine lives by snorkeling and scuba diving. 

Sydney is an expensive place to live in. More than four million people with deferent backgrounds live in Sydney. This makes Sydney one of the biggest metropolitan cities.  Living in such a vibrant city with a first class standard has a higher cost of living. Many people prefer to live in Sydney, which causes the rent for accommodation to get higher every year.  The daily expenses of a middle-class family in Sydney is almost equal to a week in many other cities in the world, particularly in central Asia. The weekly rent that I pay for a house here in Sydney is quite enough to get a big luxury villa in Kabul for an entire month.  Sydney is the world’s second most expensive city following Tokyo, Japan.   

All in all, Sydney is a paradise that you can’t get it easily.  Art galleries, museums,  big and spacious aquariums full of sea life, iconic buildings, gigantic structures, beaches, gardens and above all the cultural diversity make Sydney with almost unlimited attractions. I’m happy living in this nice, beautiful city where there you can find a variety of lifestyles and a system of governance that respects diversity.

Photo by Taqi Bakhtyari