Number 5 is pretty good!
Vancouver has been ranked the best place to live in the world for the
fifth year in a row in a survey by the Economist magazine, while
Toronto took fifth place out of 132 cities. Not even one US city made the top 10 list.
The two Canadian cities rank among the top five because they have low crime rates, little threat from instability or terrorism, and a highly developed transport and communications infrastructure, says the survey by the Economist Intelligence Unit. The survey considered 40 individual factors in categories such as stability, health care, culture, environment, education and infrastructure. I am glad that I live in Toronto...
| Top 10 cities | Livability index (%)* |
|---|---|
|
1. Vancouver |
1.3 |
| 2. Melbourne | 1.8 |
| 3. Vienna | 2.3 |
| 4. Perth | 2.5 |
| 5. Toronto | 3.0 |
| 6. Adelaide | 3.0 |
| 7. Sydney | 3.2 |
| 8. Copenhagen | 3.7 |
| 9. Geneva | 3.9 |
| 10. Zurich | 3.9 |
| (*0% indicates exceptional quality of living and 100% indicates an intolerable one) | |
The two Canadian cities rank among the top five because they have low crime rates, little threat from instability or terrorism, and a highly developed transport and communications infrastructure, says the survey by the Economist Intelligence Unit. The survey considered 40 individual factors in categories such as stability, health care, culture, environment, education and infrastructure. I am glad that I live in Toronto...
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Tyson Williams is Canadian based blogger and a freelance photographer whose works have been published in the media press and online.
I'm not surprised that a U.S. city didn't make the list. Standards of living are greatly slipping here. Yet it is still a great place in many respects. Bloom where you are planted as they say.
gassho. :)
I fully agree with your statement! Hope that things will get better for all sooner or later anyways.