You're right that Melbourne and Sydney infrastructure outcompete pretty much all US cities, but the punching above their weight on a worldwide basis is Australi

You're right that Melbourne and Sydney infrastructure outcompete pretty much all US cities, but the punching above their weight on a worldwide basis is Australian mythology. I've lived on both and several cities in Europe and Melbourne and Sydney are behind pretty much every big city in Europe and Asia. Public transport for example is absolutely atrocious, the state of the roads are extremely poor...