TL;DR: moved to Australia, currently staying with family in Brisbane. What are the skate scenes like in other cities/places? I might be moving for post-grad stuff later so I'm very curious.
Moved to Aus (dual citizenship let me get in during covid). Currently staying with family in Brisbane. Parks here are pretty solid (Paddo, Brakenridge, Jindo, Acacia, Nerang if you wanna drive), but there doesn't seem to be many street spots from what I've found so far (I did see a few ledges at UQ but it seems high bust?). The people here are great though, overall super friendly, and cost of living for a major city is pretty good, so those are some big pros.
I'm primarily interested in hearing about Melbourne, Sydney, Perth and Adelaide. Normally I'd just go visit and scope out the places myself, but given the situation with covid I've just gotta ask around for now. I've heard Melbourne is the skate mecca of Aus. Good parks, plus you have the iconic museum/IMAX spot (but it seems like that got capped again?) and you have uni square with lots of ledges to skate all around that area of the city. I'm not aware of another city in Aus that has anything equivalent where there's a plaza in the city that's chill to skate? Overall Melbourne sounds pretty sick from what I've heard, although I've also heard the people can be a bit pretentious?
Sydney is obviously another major skate destination in Aus. It's supposed to have some great parks and I imagine the spots are pretty good there as well? Dunno if they have a plaza to meetup like Melbourne though. I have been told by a lot of people here in Brisbane that the people in Sydney are stuck up cunts lol, dunno if that applies to the skaters though.
I know very little about Perth or Adelaide, I've just been told the people are friendly in Perth and that Adelaide can be a bit boring, but this is just info from a few people so it's not really representative. Oh, and I know nothing about Canberra either.
Basically, if anyone has any info on skating in parts of Australia I'm all ears.