Sydney and Melbourne beaches are roughly the same.
If you think Bondi is a great beach - then you are greatly mistaken. As a beach, it is a dirty, smelly, rip riddled, dump-wave comparison to north and south coastal beaches.
It's nothing but a business opportunity and pick up joint for non-white males.
Melbourne 'Bay' beaches are ok. I liked the Brighton area of beaches and downward.
I especially enjoyed snorkling the Ozone Wreck in Swan Bay.
Alas, when I moved to Melbourne - it was at a time when it was just starting to become like Sydney (which was just starting to become like Melbourne).
But I was lucky to have got a glimpse of how 'different' it was.
That was a time when crossing the border was like going into another country.
Now, its all 'ONE NATION'

and as boring as Pauline Hanson!!!