🇦🇺 Australia
Melbourne
Melbourne is consistently rated the world's most liveable city (EIU Global Liveability Index, 7 years as #1) — a claim that visitors quickly understand after spending time in the city's extraordinary coffee culture (Melbourne invented the flat white and the third-wave café concept), its labyrinthine laneway street art scene (Hosier Lane is the most photographed laneway in the world), its world-class gallery (the NGV is the most visited art museum in Australia), and the most diverse food scene in the southern hemisphere. Australia's second city (population 5.2 million, predicted to overtake Sydney by 2030) is the sporting capital of Australia (home of the Australian Open, the Australian Formula 1 Grand Prix, the Melbourne Cup and the AFL Grand Final), the cultural capital (the State Library, Melbourne Museum, Arts Centre and the Sidney Myer Music Bowl all within walking distance) and the city with the most cafés per capita of any city on earth — a statistic Melburnians cite with genuine pride.