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Old Posted Jun 17, 2019, 10:27 PM
Jonesy55 Jonesy55 is offline
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Originally Posted by xzmattzx View Post
That's news to me. Don't most intercontinental flights go to/come from Sydney? Where are the stock exchanges and financial sectors of Australia? From my understanding, Canada's primary city shifted to Toronto mainly when the finance sector moved there from Montreal, and then Pearson Airport took it from there and became the primary first landing spot in Canada for international flights.
Melbourne metro area is gaining on the Sydney metro area population, they are already very similar and in a few years Melbourne might indeed overtake Sydney.

Sydney does have more international flights, and the main stock exchange, but its not a massive difference between the two cities I think.
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