The Best & Worst things about ADELAIDE | According to ChatGPT 

Hey Adelaide! Great multicultural history and yes, friendly relaxed lifestyle! Hard working, "real" people! A large Ukrainian community, with lots of cultural events and dance groups! Large German community! Comedy Festivals, many Art and Lifestyle events! Great fresh food variety, all the necessary shops and outdoor activities! Cricket, AFL, peaceful beaches, open spaces! Not very far from Perth for business or holidays! Opals! 🤔👍

I recently had eye surgery and was unable to drive. I was pleasantly surprised by the public transport in Adelaide. I easily got to everywhere I wanted to go. The buses and trains were clean and air conditioned and being a senior, absolutely free. No complaints at all.

Adelaide = Hobbiton and I wouldn't want it any other way.

The DRY heat of Adelaide in my experience isn't bad - I once flew from Sydney (26 degrees) to Adelaide (40+ degrees) and Adelaide was more comfortable!! Oh, and, to continue a theme, positive for Adelaide is that it is not in Victoria :p

Damn I guess the AI has yet to learn about fruchocs! 😂

Ten years ago the wife and I left Brisbane for a visit to relatives in Adelaide, this was in summer and we are used to the heat in Brisbane of 32° C and 70% humidity, when we were in Adelaide it was 40° C with 20% humidity and to us it felt cooler. Everyone else was complaining about the heat except us.

Congratulations. You been to more aussie states than I have. And I live in the country. Lol

We are a very diverse landscape - something for everyone...

In terms of Adelaide being "isolated" compared to Melbourne or Sydney and the suggestion that they too, are isolated from each other is a bit of a false comparison, I think. Melbourne and Sydney are both much closer to other mid-sized cities, like Geelong, Ballarat or Bendigo in Melbourne's case and Wollongong, Newcastle or Central Coast in Sydney's case. There isn't another city with a population over 25,000 within 8 hours' drive from Adelaide.

I've heard people from the east coastnsay Adelaide is actually better for nightlife...something to do with lockout laws over there which Adelaide doesn't have...or didn't have.

Adelaide is cheaper to live in compared to the other capitals.

The house prices have gone up plenty in Adelaide...many people from Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane have moved from their cities and bought "cheaper" bigger houses in Adelaide because of the unreachable prices in their own cities. In my street some people from Melbourne have moved here and bought the house next door and one about four houses down the street (it's a family with two adult daughters...their husbands and kids as well as their parents). My house in 2019 was $440,000 but now is around $920,000.

I live in Adelaide and I'm telling you it's the best city in Australia to live in. As for the cost of living, it's considerably cheaper to live here than Melbourne or Sydney, and I mean by a lot.

Travelled between Brisbane and Adelaide quite a bit this past 12 months. Adelaide is Brissy 20 years ago and that’s a good thing 👍. Flight is just over 2hrs, lovely architecture, adequate public transport, traffic easy compared to my home area of Sunshine Coast. We’re towing our van down there for the first time soon, not sure how long it’ll take us😆

Not being close to Sydney or Melbourne is a positive, not a negative. The public transport gets worse the further out you go from the city. There is usually a heatwave that lasts a week to 10 days each summer that's really too hot, rest of summer is infinitely better than Sydney, Brisbane and Perth. Certainly its more expensive than a regional city, what capital isn't? Obviously less nightclubs than Melb/Sydney as you'd expect from a city that's a quarter the size. Why do Melbourne and Sydney need to compare themselves to little brother Adelaide to make themselves feel better anyway?

As an Adelaidean I agreed with this list until the last few worst things. Adelaide isn't much further from Melbourne than Sydney is and a similar distance from Brisbane as Melbourne, so not much of an issue. There's no real difference in the cost of living from the other capitals from my experience - apparently Adelaide housing costs are catching up with the Eastern capitals, while their electricity costs are catching up with ours, otherwise similar costs. And I found Melbourne and Sydney public transport no better than Adelaide's.

Here's a funny thing at my expense. I used to drive buses, and one day I'm driving an O'Bahn bus from Elizabeth, up to TTP, on the track through the city and then down to Glenelg, and taking a bus around a corner there was a tram waiting at the lights, I swung wide and clipped my glide wheel on the curb, spinning my bus and hitting the tram taking off my mirror. I've no idea as to what damage I did to the tram, he just left.

I SAY the one thing that is bad, is that you can't travel from North to South without going through traffic lights. Yet this should have been done in the 1960 and yet it not has happen and to say most other cities you can

Yes, Adelaide can get extremely hot in summer. Yes, Adelaide is quite. But what people don't understand is that we like it that way. I have been to Syd, Per, Bris and Melb, but I wouldn't want to reside in any of them. They are disgusting and filthy places. The air stinks. That is total BS about public transport. There are Bus routes through back streets. Adelaide also has the circle line. Its a circle like route in both directions with an average radius (from the city centre) 10 km. I have heard many overseas tourists compliment Adelaide on its public transport. We have strict regulations about air travel in Adelaide. The only aircraft allowed to fly after 11pm is SAPOL helicopter and the Westpac Rescue helicopter. Bo flights leave before 6am. If other states and countries wish to have aircraft flying over, landing or taking off in the middle of the night, then more fool them. The cost of living is high everywhere.

I do agree with public transport. trains here are in the metro only, where in Sydney and Melbourne they go beyond metro.

what is the best things about adelaide not as busy as melbourne,sydney and brisbane its very well laid back what is the worst the shops open late in comparison to other cities

After living in Adelaide for a few years I have to agree with the heat being the main negative. That heat is like no other I've experienced. Glad to be back in the humidity.

Being from Adelaide I probably agree with all of those but the last two on the worse list. distance is the same issue with all the other major cities in Australia and of course Adelaide is more expensive than regional cities because Adelaide isn’t a regional city.

The public transport is fine in Adelaide. All the cities are about the same distance from each other, chatgpt is on drugs. We are not a regional city and the cost of living is actually cheaper in Adelaide, rents are lower, energy is a bit higher but prices for everything else is pretty much the same in every city.

Adelaide isn’t on the sea, it’s well into a gulf.

Sorry about the bum steer you got about Glenelg. That place got ruined decades ago during the time when we had a conservative govt in thrall to developers. We hate it now. Stay in Nth. Adelaide next time. It’s still hangs on to a multi level vibe, I think, but I expect less so than when I lived there. You’re close to both the hills and the beach, the city and …. Nothing much wrong with our public transport. Apparently hills residence are unhappy with frequency. But they chose to litter our hills so no one cares. Adelaide does have an older population but not because it’s a destination for retirees but cos more than any other state we had a population explosion for 10 yrs starting late 50’s in the wake of post war Europe from the South and last chance migrants ahead of the Iron Cumrtain. And also Dutch people fsr. And of course Brits. We were offering Steel making, ship building, car making and tons of white goods factories and a brand new state owned house with a hills hoist out the back. We had a Conservative Premier but in SA fashion he was also a bit of the agrarian socialist. So that’s why we’re old now. And not rich. We don’t host the big end of town on anything really and so young people graduate and leave. Most of our richest have inter generational wealth. Wages are lower but another correction - it’s actually a lot cheaper here although after Covid people came home from interstate once they could work remotely and house prices have kept going up whilst others cities are still going down. There’s a shortage that unlike other cities isn’t because there are many empty houses owned by foreigners. We do have the cheapest lecky prices, contrary to some weird comments I’ve seen here and that’s because we’re close to 100% renewable. But maybe WA with their publicly owned lecky who reserve gas for themselves are cheaper? We wouldn’t stand for road tolls here because they are clearly unfair and also hike the price of business. We never paid $12 for a lettuce, went up a bit but ours must of stayed home cos of petrol prices. We have a much stronger independent grocer market which supports local produce. We have much fewer climate disasters, except for this year getting flooded even though we got no rain. I hope that doesn’t happen again. We got it worse than anybody, more news there for those up river. It would have helped if they didn’t take so much water out in the lean years but we’re powerless because we’re small. The Senate is our best hope. So the worst thing about Adelaide is that it’s still a bit of a rust belt, globalisation was so unkind. Sydney has a Cocaine problem, in Melbourne (still heroin?) Brisbane is likely party pills but sadly here it’s crystal meth according to our waste water management. All tho, there’s very little societal evidence as against crime tales that come out from Qld. But we are very good at that waste water management because we’re good at making the most of what we’ve got and being careful/responsible with our environment. Keep coming up with great schemes but then have to fight off Melbourne or Perth with their bags of money. Our Festival of Arts is amongst the top 3, 5 in the WORLD, that is only known here and in the Arts World overseas. It’s followed by Womadelaide, Cabernet festivals and then it dribbles down to French films by winter. It’s not for rangers is it. We have the best fish in Australia. Most of us can’t afford it anymore it’s so good. Our lobster, or crayfish as we used to be allowed to call it, was once a feature of Xmas. And although it did come down when China kicked up it went from $145 kg. to $70 - $90 - maybe the guy that that said food was exxy here came from WA where their inferior product is sold for $19 each at Woolies. I think we have less slave labour low end joints here as well as much less fine dining. I wish we had more middle eastern restaurants because we love their food, it suits our climate, but they tend to flood towards Sydney. But as a friend who lived in that neck of the woods in Sydney said when she came home and we ate at the Jerusalem, gone now since Covid, but an institution of many decades, with the best food, served often on plastic plates, glasses, plastic tables and chairs, outdoor loos with buckets of chickpeas soaking nearby. But so delicious. And my friend from Sydney was in heaven. I heard there was a new place, haven’t tried it yet. We’ve got great Thai food as well even though that’s not our climate. We have all the things. We are in fact more Greek than Melbourne who famously host the most Greeks outside of Athens. But per capita … Very Hot dry air is cooler seeming than sticky temps ~ 30’s. It depends on how much you sweat. I’m like Prince Andrew, I just don’t sweat enough and I’d just die anywhere above the barrassi line. But some people go to Darwin and don’t come back probably cos they’re sweaters. Before long our shops will have to be constantly open like elsewhere and workers will be deprived of lifestyle. But our Premier is supported by the shoppies union so there goes another element of what makes us different/better. Obviously this message is too long. But when small places are misrepresented by big places that enjoy all the limelight, then I think it’s fair. Many Adeladians would be happy to stay low and keep mum but now it’s too late. We went to book a place on the south east we like but it had more than tripled in price, beyond our budget. Fishermen have been whinging of late because they are not allowed to take snapper for a few years. One of my favs but if their numbers are too low, then bad luck. They used to cop rational advice but this is the way we have descended from who we were. Sad. We should be leading but we’ll soon be following.😮

To hot for me

Adelaide has the largest arts festival in Oz, it's called Mad March (it incorporates The Fringe Festival, The Festival of Arts and I think Womad) it runs for about 5 or 6 weeks and has Local, National and International performers. We kinda binge arts (how very modern) and then take the rest of the year to sit back and digest it, haha.

That was a pretty fair & accurate assessment by you I thought Rob. Well analyzed mate. People are going to have good things & bad things to say about any city in the world. As you said, in the end It`s all about choice & what type of lifestyle you want to live. 👍😊

Adelaide's festival and cultural events cluster around this month (March) ...called mad march is when many festifals coincide and the city gets overtaken.

I grew up in the Northwestern suburbs of Adelaide and it's still great but has gotten so expensive in real estate over the years it's a Barry Crocker. I prefer to live rural and don't miss the City life.

Are you doing Canberra next?

As a city over one million people, we'd be in the top 40 biggest cities in USA... hardly a regional city 😂

Hi Rob, I live in Melbourne but my wife and I have just returned from 1 month-long trip around South Australia. We went to 34 wineries and bought several dozen bottles of wine!

Job, employment opportunities are more limited in Adelaide, has not been on the less desirable list. While no doubt now getting better, Sundays were an effectively shutdown day an decades past. While Barossa Valley is very widely known for wines, and several other areas around Adelaide also have major wine industry. Melbourne has wine areas right on its doorstep in Yarra Valley, right on suburban fringe, on the Mornington peninsula, and then through major country areas not too far outside, certainly similar range are Barrossa Valley, with major wine area from Ottway Ranges, Shepparton, Ovens Valley to upper Eastern Hills. Lots of specialist wineries as well as volume producers. I believe well more than South Australia.

I was in Adelaide recently, in the 40 degree heat, from rural SA. I'm a senior citizen and on one occaision I had so much trouble trying to find the bus that goes to the airport!! I walked around for hours with my luggage, using Adelaide Metro third party app - with min data on my mobile - and ads etc on app. Ended up getting a taxi - and thats a whole other story where the company needed an actual address to pickup from. Then the airport itself being revamped since I was there last year!! and my plane was getting ready to board when I got there. I tell you I was happy to be HOME and pleasant 25 degrees!! Also, my hotel room didn't have aircon and was hot as hell. Hopefully, I have better luck next year!!

Adelaide is not a retirement community. Stop it.

Worst #6. One needs to adjust their clock back 50 years. Unlike Perth which is only 10 years. 😁