Vienna, Austria is ranked the No. 1 most liveable city in the world. This is the first time the city ranked as the most livable on the list, displacing Melbourne, Australia, which had a record seven-year winning streak. Melbourne is now ranked second.
For its methodology on ranking the cities, The EIU assessed which locations around the world provide the best or the worst living conditions. Every city is assigned a rating of relative comfort for over 30 qualitative and quantitative factors across five broad categories: stability (looking at things like crime, conflict and terrorism), healthcare, culture and environment, education, and infrastructure.
Vienna and Melbourne scored maximum points of 100 in the healthcare, education and infrastructure categories, though Vienna edged forward in the stability category with 100 points (Melbourne ranked 95). In the culture and environment category, Vienna scored 96.3. The city's overall score was 99.1. Melbourne scored 98.4.
Canada and Australia both have three cities in the top 10: Calgary, Vancouver and Toronto, Canada and Melbourne, Sydney and Adelaide, Australia.
New to the top 10 is Japan, with Osaka and Tokyo making the cut.
Vancouver and Toronto only if you can afford it. Real estate is outrageously expensive in both of those cities.
So, The Economist finds that cities in countries with tiny military budgets are more economically attractive in which to reside?
I’m so surprised.
Next, they will say the best places for illegal drug needles are cities that give those away.
this list only applies to the rich
Send this to all of your LEFTist acquaintances and remind them of their pledge to move out if DJT was elected. Win-Win scenario!
Any list which excludes Mahalasville, Indiana, can’t be taken seriously.
1. Seoul, South Korea
2. Dallas/Ft Worth, Texas, USA
3. Des Moines, Iowa, USA
4. Omaha, Nebraska, USA
5. Ocean Springs, Mississippi, USA
6. The Woodlands, Texas, USA
7. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
8. Buenos Aires, Argentina
9. Lima, Peru
Yeah, if you’re filthy rich, Toronto and Vancouver are great places. For us ordinary mortals, not so much. It’s incredibly expensive to live in either of those cities. Whoever rated these cities has an odd idea of “livable”.
I found Vienna to be both oppressive and depressing. No one makes eye contact, no one smiles or laughs. Yuk.
Where’s Camden, NJ? Cairo, IL? East St. Louis? Gary, IN? P
“The Economist’s 10 most liveable cities in the world: Australia and Canada Dominate 6 of 10 spots”
If you don’t mind giving up your guns and random acid attacks.
The first thing I notice about those 10 cities is that almost everyone living in them has ancestors from Northern Europe or East Asia.
“The highest-ranked American city was Honolulu at 23.”
They have to be shitting us? But then what big American city isn’t a shithole?
Mass immigration has truly made nearly all of Western Europe "unlivable."
Wow, based on what we’ve been told by the Moonbats, Caracas, Venezuela would have made the list.
Great. That’s their opinion. Mine is different.
I’ve lived in Vienna (briefly). I’ve seen Copenhagen. Both are expensive as hell and crowded. Both countries have far more restrictive gun laws, not as much open space, parking is nowhere near as convenient, they don’t have as much living space as most Americans nor as much stuff. Don’t get me wrong, I really enjoyed certain aspects of Vienna like the palaces, architecture, art galleries and museums and seeing the Philharmonic Orchestra. All of which stems from their glorious past rather than present policies. Both are wonderful places to visit but I’d much rather live in the South where I am currently.
The economist used to be an interesting independent voice. I didn’t agree with them about everything but they had a different and often intelligent take on things. Sadly, I noticed around 2003 or so it really started turning into just another Yurp rag parrotting the same global socialist perspective as much of the rest of the MSM. It became unreadable and I dropped it. I notice they endorsed the Democrat every single time since starting in 2004. This isn’t really a news magazine which espouses the free market any longer. Any periodical which could ever endorse Obama instantly loses all credibility on that front.
They overlooked a quaint college town. Served by two freeways it is just minutes away from the Los Angeles International Airport, the beaches of Orange County to the southeast and Santa Monica and the South Bay to the west, as well as downtown LA. Yet despite being in the heart of one of the country’s largest metropolitan areas, it still retains its small-town charm. Barbara Bush, the former First Lady, who lived there with her husband George and son George W., described the town as “lovely.”
The name of this lovely town? Compton, Calif.
It’s hard to make an apples-to-oranges comparison, because the nicest parts of foreign cities are often near the downtown core whereas the nicest parts of US cities are usually outside the city limits - edge cities in the suburbs.
Oddly, none are in the US. There are some nice cities in our country, though most are NOT run by democrats.
The site requires registration to download the report. Not going there. Everything depends, of course, on the scoring matrix and the weight given to various components. The U.S. has some challenging demographic issues that will significantly affect our scores on crime and educational quality. In addition, too many U.S. cities developed in the automobile age and are big, sprawling, often ugly messes; that can be handled in various ways in such surveys, but it’s not hard to find metrics that ding the U.S. Almost any major U.S. city has middle- and upper-middle class areas that will compare favorably with their equivalents around the world. U.S. downtowns generally fare less well. And we have an adversarial, drug-addled, crime infested underclass that gives us a black eye. The rest of the developed world, aside from Japan, is beginning to catch up, as they continue to attract mass third world immigration, but the U.S. has a head start.