Melbourne sucks. Sydney is not only more beautiful and closer to a range of fantastic climbing options climbable in all conditions but it isn't full(****) of people pretending to live in the best city in the world. Big flat and boring.
Having said that I would probably choose Wollongong: beautiful, not too big but big enough, close to fantastic beaches, the Point/Nowra, local/Shire crags a couple of hours to the mtns and even the southern highlands and canberra.
**** full minus one or two people - myself being one of them |