Aussie suburbs make cool list

Two Australian suburbs have been named in Timeout’s list of the world’s coolest neighbourhoods for 2025, but this year the Sydney-Melbourne dynamic has shifted.

Coming in at #16 is Sydney’s Burwood, lauded as the fifth-most diverse community in Australia. Along with a great variety of cuisine, it ranked high for ‘pumping at night – all neon lit and filled with people’ as well as being ‘a beautiful place during the day, with kids playing cricket, the elderly doing tai chi and groups practicing cultural dances’. North Melbourne was further down in the list this year, ranked 24th for its ‘charming, village-style vibe’, a strong sense of community and ‘diverse spread of cuisines on offer’. Image: Jem Cresswell