I have even been to Sydney, feeling just so so. My impressions are:
(1) Very deserted. After 8PM, very few people in downturn, the whole city falls into the darkness.
(2) Many goods are much more expensive than Singapore, for example, mineral water. Even taking a trolley at the airport will be charged with A$4.0, but it is totally in Changi airport of Singapore.
(3) The streets are basically clean, but not so clean as Singapore. Particularly, there are many cigarette stubs found on the ground.
(4) The weather is moderate, not too hot or too cold, but somehow overcast and windy in many times, is not so sunny and splendid as in Singapore.
(5) Some people are friendly, but some are very rude. A ticket officer even shouted to me and threw the refunded money to me.
(6) The hotel is very shabby. The room is very narrow. Claimed to be a 4-star hotel, but have only 2-star level as Singapore hotels.
(7) The airport is the most shabby one I have ever met, even poorer than the airport in Vietnam.
(8) The author is a Manchu? So try his best to belittle Han Chineses in Singapore? In Sydney, I had noticed that the hawkers in the market were selling Manchu Qipao, and even the man-made pig-tails, but nobody were selling our brilliant Hanfu!
(9) Those so-called travelling interests in Sydney, are completely uncomparable to the Great Wall, Summper Place, Forbidden City in Beijing.
(10) The last but not the least, please don't boast for those westerners, because they are supporting those minority separatists rioting in China.