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.
Tokyo? Good grief, that's one of the most expensive cities in the world, and as far as "livable" I'd encourage the panel to spend a rush hour in Shinjuku Eki sometime. Or try driving downtown. I have done both. Never again.
Well, aside from the weather and the liberals, Boston, MA is a pretty nice city.
Expensive though.
Tokyo is expensive. So apparently it’s livable... if you’re a billionaire.
Economist Intelligence Unit.......isn’t that an oxymoron?
California should have a couple
Personally I like Honolulu