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The EIU’s Most Liveable City list has been released and for the first time in 7 years, Melbourne hasn’t won.
While Vienna tops the list, the ratings clearly point to Canada and Australia as being the best Countries in which to live.
The same cities are trotted out year after year and the same criticisms of this study are duly noted. Last years treatment of Manchester being a case in point, having dropped massively last year due to the bomb attack on the arena, which wasn't Manchesters fault. However after all the fuss this created, guess what, Manchester is one of the biggest movers in this years study having moved up twenty places.
The same cities are trotted out year after year and the same criticisms of this study are duly noted. Last years treatment of Manchester being a case in point, having dropped massively last year due to the bomb attack on the arena, which wasn't Manchesters fault. However after all the fuss this created, guess what, Manchester is one of the biggest movers in this years study having moved up twenty places.
Of course there is criticism. That’s the fun of it.
Nothing fun in inaccurate studies based on dodgy criteria.
It just doesn't interest me, as the same cities are always going to come out at the top or near the top year after year, so why don't they just save themselves the bother and do the study once every five or ten years, rather than have to go through this nonsense every year.
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To understand these rather head-scratching results, one must look at the criteria these surveys used. Cultural institutions, public safety, mass transit, "green" policies and other measures of what is called "livability" were weighted heavily, so results skewed heavily toward compact cities in fairly prosperous regions.
Most of these regions suffer only a limited underclass and support a relatively small population of children. In fact, most of the cities are in countries with low birthrates--Switzerland's median fertility rate, for example, is about 1.4, one of the lowest on the planet and a full 50% below that of the U.S.
Nothing fun in inaccurate studies based on dodgy criteria.
It just doesn't interest me, as the same cities are always going to come out at the top or near the top year after year, so why don't they just save themselves the bother and do the study once every five or ten years, rather than have to go through this nonsense every year.
The EIU’s Most Liveable City list has been released and for the first time in 7 years, Melbourne hasn’t won.
While Vienna tops the list, the ratings clearly point to Canada and Australia as being the best Countries in which to live.
Not surprising. I would put Lyon or Bordeaux instead of Paris. Cosy cities, big enough to be entertaining without paying 1,5 million euros for 100m2...
Paris belongs with its big friends NY and London, lower. Dense, expensive blablabla
Not really - my only comment is that the constant sameness and pointless nature of annual so called liveable cities which using the same criteria just continue to repeat virtually the same results year after year.
I went to Vienna for three times, and it's not surprising that it in so many rankings is qualified as the most liveable city in the world. I didn't find any single bad point to mention about the city. It has all the qualities of larger cities like London and Paris, but none of the critical issues. Not only The Economist, but Mercer also issues a yearly ranking. Other cities change frequently the position, but Vienna is always in the top five. I can't make any statement about Melbourne because I never travelled to there, however Vienna is in the core of Europe while Melbourne is quite isolated of most other global cities. It's possible that it's an important point for measuring the liveability.
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