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Not playing devil's advocate, but just trying to point out that for the vast majority of citizens, it doesn't matter.
Peoples QOL, which is where the hospital access/care falls into as one part of QOL. The fact that Boston has this and that, certainly helps those who MAY have conditions that are rarer. Overall care for everyone?
It's difficult for someone like me to think that somehow if I lived in Boston, my QOL would be better because of the off chance that I many get a rare condition. Someone who has gone through our system with family and friends who have had brain tumours, breast cancers, throat cancers, hip replacements, kidney cancer, cataract surgeries, leg amputations, and other less major illnesses, all of whom survived and got first rate care, that somehow because they don't live in Boston, have a poorer QOL because of hospital ratings.
Hospitals is just one thing it’s better at...also takes cultural institutions, museums, retail, economy, education institutions, sports, arts, tech, breweries....easily
Not undermining, but putting into perspective what that means to the average Joe.
As a self-described “average joe” it’s comforting for me to know that if anything bad happens to me, there are a lot of places nearby that will take care of me very well in Boston.
Mastercard has an annual ranking of international destination cities. In North America, Vancouver ranks #6 while Boston is #10. These are numbers for 2016, so perhaps that ranking looks different today.
Vancouver definitely punches above its weight internationally and is well-integrated into the global economy. However, it tends to fly under the radar in North America, particularly on the U.S. East Coast.
Oh, not just in the East Coast. Heck, it's the most underrated big city on the West Coast. People think Portland and Seattle are so cool and never bother to see Vancouver. For all the cheap talk Seattle and Portland have about being these three hugging, well-planned, mass transit cities, Vancouver's Downtown, skytrain, Stanley Park, and Grouse Mountain would rip Seattle and Portland to smithereens.
Actually in Seattle we have a healthy jealousy for Vancouver's transit, parks, scenery, and overseas air connections. We know we're way behind on trains, though we have much higher transit share than Portland.
They have a healthy jealously of our economy and home prices.
Portland I can't speak for. They're by far the worst of the three on transit, density, diversity, etc., but do have an outstanding urban vibe and a lot of other good stuff like bikeability.
Oh, not just in the East Coast. Heck, it's the most underrated big city on the West Coast. People think Portland and Seattle are so cool and never bother to see Vancouver. For all the cheap talk Seattle and Portland have about being these three hugging, well-planned, mass transit cities, Vancouver's Downtown, skytrain, Stanley Park, and Grouse Mountain would rip Seattle and Portland to smithereens.
Ha, I don't think anybody raves about Seattle's mass transit.
Actually in Seattle we have a healthy jealousy for Vancouver's transit, parks, scenery, and overseas air connections. We know we're way behind on trains, though we have much higher transit share than Portland.
They have a healthy jealously of our economy and home prices.
Portland I can't speak for. They're by far the worst of the three on transit, density, diversity, etc., but do have an outstanding urban vibe and a lot of other good stuff like bikeability.
In all honesty, I've never heard anyone in Vancouver talk about Seattle's economy.
Seattle's housing market is different and yes cheaper, than Vancouver's, but again, I don't hear people talking about it. Probably because people don't think about moving there?
No offence to Seattle, I prefer it over Portland. Seattle is much more vibrant than Portland, and I have a lot of good memories there.
Oh, not just in the East Coast. Heck, it's the most underrated big city on the West Coast. People think Portland and Seattle are so cool and never bother to see Vancouver. For all the cheap talk Seattle and Portland have about being these three hugging, well-planned, mass transit cities, Vancouver's Downtown, skytrain, Stanley Park, and Grouse Mountain would rip Seattle and Portland to smithereens.
Maybe underrated in the US rather than the world? From some of the posts here, I can tell some really don't have a feel for Vancouver and the reasons why it rates highly around the world as one of the most desirable cities to live in by many different sources.
I think people from Portland visit less than Seattleites. I bump into people from Seattle a lot. It's an easy drive or train ride. The two cities are quite different, but each others citizens seem to migrate to the others city for weekends, especially holiday weekends.
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