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05-02-2009, 05:24 PM
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News, World's 20 Best Places To Live.
In 1999, when Austrians elected the far-right Freedom Party (FPO) to second position in parliament, it brought on sanctions from the European Union based on fears of what happened the last time a nationalist party had control of that country back in the 1930s and 1940s. That's when Austria was mired in uncertainty about its direction and place within the E.U., and social norms were upset by the FPO's hard-line anti-immigration, Austria-first agenda.
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05-05-2009, 10:57 PM
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It would have been much better if the article included the locations by rating and various other particulars. Only a few facts were mentioned.
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05-06-2009, 06:15 AM
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I must admit I am astonished that Frankfurt, Zurich and Ottawa were among the top 20 because having lived in the first 2 and visited the third ( my Mother lives there) I think they are some of the dullest, most boring cities on the planet. Geneva is pretty boring too.
I lived in Vienna too and though it is a beautiful city, with lovely architecture and a great sense of history it is also one of the most bourgeois snobbish places on earth. My Father was a Diplomat and I remember the Viennese as being "uber-bourgeois", to the extreme. Which to me makes it not so appealing as a city as the people are really what truly make a city in the end.
I guess my way of rating places and Forbes are pretty different...
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05-06-2009, 06:45 AM
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what criteria are considered for ranking infrastructure ?
Toronto 18 and Vancouver 6 doesn't seem right.
with more cities in Oceania than North America accessibility must not be a category.
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05-08-2009, 04:52 PM
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in the article one of the posters made a comment that they felt this poll was very biased towards the west, citing in particular that in the east one never hears of foreigners being attacked by local skinheads. anyone who's well travelled agree? Hopefully this isn't too off-topic
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05-09-2009, 09:13 PM
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You will find people in every city on the planet who rate there city as the best place to live, this is a subjective question without a correct answer
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