Released by The Economist each year except for 2020 due to Covid.
140 cities were analyzed and the winner in 2021 is Auckland, scoring a 96.0 rank based on a combination of stability, healthcare, culture, environment, education, and infrastructure.
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Released by The Economist each year except for 2020 due to Covid.
140 cities were analyzed and the winner in 2021 is Auckland, scoring a 96.0 rank based on a combination of stability, healthcare, culture, environment, education, and infrastructure.
by Anonymous | reply 115 | July 2, 2021 6:01 AM |
Do they have rodent plagues in the featured Australian cities?
by Anonymous | reply 1 | June 28, 2021 1:35 PM |
So they're all in the Antipodes, Japan, or Switzerland. And the ten worst are all in Africa or the Middle East (except for Caracas and one in Papua New Guinea). Where does that leave Dubuque? Waco? Truckee?
by Anonymous | reply 2 | June 28, 2021 1:36 PM |
The world’s most livable cities 2021
1. Auckland, New Zealand
2. Osaka, Japan
3. Adelaide, Australia
4. Wellington, New Zealand (tied)
4. Tokyo, Japan (tied)
6. Perth, Australia
7. Zurich, Switzerland
8. Geneva, Switzerland (tied)
8. Melbourne, Australia (tied)
10. Brisbane, Australia
by Anonymous | reply 3 | June 28, 2021 1:38 PM |
THE 10 LEAST LIVEABLE
131. Caracas, Venezuela
132. Douala, Cameroon
133. Harare, Zimbabwe
134. Karachi, Pakistan
135. Tripoli, Libya
136. Algiers, Algeria
137. Dhaka, Bangladesh
138. Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea
139. Lagos, Nigeria
140. Damascus, Syria
by Anonymous | reply 4 | June 28, 2021 1:41 PM |
How the scores of the top ten cities were tabulated.
by Anonymous | reply 5 | June 28, 2021 1:43 PM |
Formerly high raking Canadian cities slip lower the list.
by Anonymous | reply 6 | June 28, 2021 1:44 PM |
Tokyo, where the population density is 16,000 per sq mile? No thanks.
by Anonymous | reply 7 | June 28, 2021 1:46 PM |
I wonder do they based their rankings on cleanliness and friendliness at all?
by Anonymous | reply 8 | June 28, 2021 1:48 PM |
Brisbane is only number ten? It should be number one.
by Anonymous | reply 9 | June 28, 2021 1:53 PM |
These lists are BULLSHIT
They should have a Top Ten Best cities to TAKE A CRAP in.
by Anonymous | reply 10 | June 28, 2021 1:57 PM |
I think that list would then start at the bottom (no pun intended), R10.
by Anonymous | reply 11 | June 28, 2021 2:00 PM |
I lived in Wellington, NZ for four years while working in the American Embassy. I am not surprised NZ is all over that list as it is the most beautiful country I have ever seen, from the semi-tropics in the north to the frozen tundra of the south island. Everything is breathtaking, including the people.
by Anonymous | reply 12 | June 28, 2021 2:05 PM |
R12- I don't doubt it's beautiful but there's not much scope in New Zealand.
by Anonymous | reply 13 | June 28, 2021 2:07 PM |
R13 What part of NZ have you visited?
by Anonymous | reply 14 | June 28, 2021 2:10 PM |
One person's liveable is another person's hellhole. I would be happy to visit most of the top 10, but long-term? Not sure about that. I don't want to live somewhere very isolated, very expensive or with a culture as strict and repressive as Japan's...besides, they don't make it easy for foreigners to settle there, from what I understand.
by Anonymous | reply 15 | June 28, 2021 2:10 PM |
I guess they didn't take genital pixellation into account.
by Anonymous | reply 16 | June 28, 2021 2:13 PM |
Auckland seemed fairly boring and only a relatively small amount of it is walkable. Adelaide is actually quite nice and does seem livable. Melbourne really doesn't seem any more livable than say, Seattle or lakefront Chicago. Zurich seems interesting for a city its size and Switzerland has a lot to see.
Of course, Damascus is going to top the list of unlivable places, they just had a civil war.
by Anonymous | reply 17 | June 28, 2021 2:19 PM |
R6 How does one explain the fall of Canada? I thought from the very beginning they had handled the COVID crisis well.
by Anonymous | reply 18 | June 28, 2021 2:20 PM |
Adelaide Australia?
Did an Australian write this list?
by Anonymous | reply 19 | June 28, 2021 2:24 PM |
R18 The 2019 rankings for Calgary, Vancouver, Toronto were at numbers five, six, and seven.
Honolulu did well this year at #14, I guess that is why so many celebrities live there.
by Anonymous | reply 20 | June 28, 2021 2:29 PM |
For all the NY haters who insist living in a shoe box is equivalent to being in prison - notice how Tokyo, which has even smaller living spaces than NYC, is still one of the best places to live in the world. Size doesn’t equal quality of life.
by Anonymous | reply 21 | June 28, 2021 2:29 PM |
New York is the best place in the universe. Don't bother me with facts; my mind is made up!
by Anonymous | reply 22 | June 28, 2021 2:41 PM |
Heavily weighted toward “dull”
by Anonymous | reply 23 | June 28, 2021 2:55 PM |
R19 Adelaide has always been seen, on DL at least as "The Wichita of Australia".
But that is quite unfair. It's a beautifully planned city that is well integrated into its surroundings. I have never been to a city center that is so green before, the air is so clean. With a Mediterranean climate leaning to four seasons that is nearly perfect.
It is also the most affordable city on the list. The people there are really open and friendly. Warm and helpful to outsiders. There is a great emphasis on leisure time and activities, and exceptionally good food and wine to try. Also, the SA culture is unique as they share a border with every Mainland state in Australia, besides the capital.
by Anonymous | reply 24 | June 28, 2021 4:21 PM |
Intact dong is one of the criteria for best cities, right?
by Anonymous | reply 25 | June 28, 2021 4:28 PM |
No one would mistake it for a list of the Top 10 Most Beautiful Cities in the World
by Anonymous | reply 26 | June 28, 2021 4:29 PM |
This year's list is heavily skewed by COVID-related quality-of-life issues. That's the reason the antipodean cities did so well this time around: they didn't have the lockdowns, because they had their COVID "bubble".
Vienna, on the other hand, which has been #1 in recent years, got hammered this time because the Austrian government hit the kill switch on EVERYTHING, with lockdowns, mask mandates etc. Who'd want to live under those conditions in even the most beautiful city?
Assuming the pandemic abates, next year's list will look different.
by Anonymous | reply 27 | June 28, 2021 4:32 PM |
Sydney and Melbourne should be the only Australian cities on that list and I'm being generous.. Australia is one of the most boring places I've ever lived in and most of the population are ugly and unsophisticated.
by Anonymous | reply 28 | June 28, 2021 4:34 PM |
All i want to know is which aussie city is closet to Bondi Beach! do the bodybuilders and muscle men still wear speedos and bikini's? i know the lifeguards still do!...
by Anonymous | reply 29 | June 28, 2021 4:43 PM |
Everybody rates cities on a very personal level of gut-feeling of aesthetics, or salary and professional advancement, of the fuckability of the residents, or cost-of-living, or proximity to travel opportunities, or quality of life in some combination. This is yet another vague assignment of numbers, 1 to 100, in vague categories of Stability, Healthcare, Culture&Environment, Education, and Infrastructure.
How are the the infrastructure prospects in Prague? How is the stability in San Gimignano?
I don't know why the places rated sites (sites whose sole purpose is these sort of thing and selling the data) don't develop more complex rankings and let users select from criteria to focus on their individual deciding factors.
by Anonymous | reply 30 | June 28, 2021 4:54 PM |
Bullshit list. A bunch of Australian and Swiss troglodytes compiled a list. Big fucking deal!
Where is Los Angeles? Uh??? UH?! We have Bel Air, Beverly Hills, Palisades, North Hollywood Gay Spa...etc etc
by Anonymous | reply 31 | June 28, 2021 5:10 PM |
It's interesting to me that Perth, Brisbane, Melbourne and Adelaide are all in the top 10 but Sydney is not. I thought everyone in Sydney was really arrogant about thinking they lived in the best Australian city?
by Anonymous | reply 32 | June 28, 2021 6:30 PM |
In Adelaide all seems to breathe peace and freedom, and to make one forget the world and its sad turmoils.
by Anonymous | reply 33 | June 29, 2021 3:54 AM |
I would die of boredom if I lived in some of these provincial cities on theist, particularly Adelaide.
by Anonymous | reply 34 | June 29, 2021 4:24 AM |
I'm sure New Zealand is lovely but their vowels drive me up the wall.
Bed is "bid" or "beed" (hold the vowel sound out a long time). Fish and chips is "fush and chups". Terms is "tombs". Boots is "boats" -- really unnerving.
And of course they've got the Aussie rising terminal which makes them all sound like middle schoolers (rise in pitch on sentences that aren't questions)
Ugh.
by Anonymous | reply 35 | June 29, 2021 4:32 AM |
I do find it amusing that these lists don't take into account rental/housing costs.
by Anonymous | reply 36 | June 29, 2021 4:54 AM |
Just waiting for the basic DO Americans to wake up and pile in on Adelaide, Tokyo, Auckland etc.
Which none of you have a hope in hell of visiting, or having visited.
by Anonymous | reply 37 | June 29, 2021 5:13 AM |
* DL no DO ^^^
by Anonymous | reply 38 | June 29, 2021 5:14 AM |
R17 Auckland is actually easily walkable unless you’re a fat fuck yank, sweating as you shuffle to the next MacDonalds or Starbucks.
by Anonymous | reply 39 | June 29, 2021 5:17 AM |
R37, I'm an American who used to visit my sister in Tokyo when she worked for Revlon there not long ago. The Shinjuku crush of suffocating crowds on sidewalks and in subways, locals pointing at the "gaijin", businessmen routinely vomiting all over after themselves and everyone in proximity after several drinks too many, ridiculously expensive everything, digital cyber overload, electronic overkill, constrictive conformity. Pass.
by Anonymous | reply 40 | June 29, 2021 6:10 AM |
R40 Which just goes to show how subjective these things are. I’m not American but have spent time in Japan as an expat and while I can see your point about crowds (although no worse in my experience in, say, Central Hong Kong, or any central London tube station at around 6pm on a Friday), my experience in Tokyo has been different. I’ve found the people incredibly polite and considerate, the culture fascinating, the restaurant and bar scene about as good as it gets and have loved how clean, ordered and efficient everything is. The only reason that I haven’t moved there (and there have been work opportunities) is that I don’t speak the language. It’s possible to live in Japan while not speaking Japanese but that’s not how I roll.
by Anonymous | reply 41 | June 29, 2021 6:27 AM |
I prefer to take my pick from a list more like this:
by Anonymous | reply 42 | June 29, 2021 7:53 AM |
Welp. The list is clearly racist. So...
by Anonymous | reply 43 | June 29, 2021 8:36 AM |
Last night I dreamed of Adelaide
by Anonymous | reply 44 | June 29, 2021 9:16 AM |
Australia has only vaccinated 5% of their population. They are under lockdown again.
But sure - Adelaide sounds great. Let’s all move to Adelaide, Australia.
by Anonymous | reply 45 | June 29, 2021 12:15 PM |
Probably the survey wasn't done with the intent to stir people to decide "Let's all move to Adelaide -- right this very fucking minute!"
by Anonymous | reply 46 | June 29, 2021 12:18 PM |
R45 and with a whopping total of 4 deaths.
by Anonymous | reply 47 | June 29, 2021 12:37 PM |
Reviewing that "least liveable" list, I'm surprised Mogadishu isn't on it. It was for some time the most dangerous city in the world.
by Anonymous | reply 48 | June 29, 2021 12:48 PM |
I'd be interested in visiting Japan and New Zealand.
Australia, not so much.
Switzerland is also not on my list of places to spend more time than it takes to change trains. Beautiful scenery, but I'll admire it from the windows of the express to Venice.
by Anonymous | reply 49 | June 29, 2021 12:57 PM |
r47 still couldn't pay me to live in Australia...
by Anonymous | reply 50 | June 29, 2021 1:30 PM |
R17: You have downtown which is fairly compact and some old streetcar suburb type neighborhoods and then you have miles and miles (or km and km as the case may be) the same ugly, unwalkable sprawl that we have here. Aukland is basically like a lot of medium sized US cities, which is not a compliment.
by Anonymous | reply 51 | June 29, 2021 1:49 PM |
R39, yes, all four blocks of the CBD are very walkable. The belt of sprawl beyond that? Maybe less so.
by Anonymous | reply 52 | June 29, 2021 1:55 PM |
I have visited New Zealand several times. It is the most beautiful country in the world. But I always found Aukland to be pretty, but dull.
I lived in Syndey for several years and loved it. It is a much better place to live than Aukland.
I hate Zurich. It's what Europe would be like if the Nazis had won the war.
by Anonymous | reply 53 | June 29, 2021 1:56 PM |
r51 r52 A-U-C-K-L-A-N-D
by Anonymous | reply 54 | June 29, 2021 2:01 PM |
I've been to Zurich (top 10) and Algiers (bottom 10). I like Algiers a lot more. Zurich is boring.
by Anonymous | reply 55 | June 29, 2021 2:18 PM |
[quote]A-U-C-K-L-A-N-D
See? It's so boring nobody even remembers what it's called.
by Anonymous | reply 56 | June 29, 2021 2:26 PM |
r22 New Yorkers are so brainwashed and blind. Desirable New York took its last breath in the 90's.
by Anonymous | reply 57 | June 29, 2021 2:33 PM |
New York is just turning into a place for Arabs, Russians, and Chinese to launder money.
by Anonymous | reply 58 | June 29, 2021 2:39 PM |
Excuse me, R37, but your provincialism is showing. I’ve been to Perth, Tokyo, Auckland, Hong Kong, and even Tashkent. Bet you can’t say that.
by Anonymous | reply 59 | June 29, 2021 2:40 PM |
Oh, I say, old chap, R58, we got there long ago! Pip pip!
by Anonymous | reply 60 | June 29, 2021 2:41 PM |
Wow, R59, you’ve visited five other cities! Such a cosmopolitan!
by Anonymous | reply 61 | June 29, 2021 2:49 PM |
[quote]still couldn't pay me to live in Australia...
--Someone who has never left Witchita Falls
Australia will be inconsolable.
by Anonymous | reply 62 | June 29, 2021 2:55 PM |
I don't know about "liveable". Adelaide might be the world's most "dieable" city. Not that you're LIKELY to meet your end there, but if you do it will be in a way that makes the cops say "First time I've seen THAT." The freaks there be truly freaky. Somebody murdered a heap of zoo animals once. Somebody kidnapped THREE children aged under 10 from a beach. At once. Armie Hammer would probably find his peeps in Adelaide.
Its tourist authority had a marketing campaign a few years ago that was a black-and-white TV and cinema commercial with Nick Cave's "Red Right Hand" as the soundtrack. I'm not joking.
by Anonymous | reply 63 | June 29, 2021 3:11 PM |
Adelaide was number 3 on the "shit towns of Australia" list. I don't know much about it other than its time zone is a half hour off from the rest of the world and that it's known for its serial killers.
by Anonymous | reply 64 | June 29, 2021 3:13 PM |
I'm in Canada. We get a lot of Australians coming through here. Some of them are hot and have big dicks.
by Anonymous | reply 65 | June 29, 2021 7:41 PM |
More like 105 cities in 20+ countries, r61 - I’ve lost track. Now regale us with your travel history - we can’t wait to find out more!
by Anonymous | reply 66 | June 29, 2021 7:58 PM |
Sadly I have not been to many of the best places, but I have visited many of the worst places. This due to work in global public health.
Lagos is the worse on that list. Dreadful traffic and violence. I had to shut myself behind an iron cage at night to seal off the bedrooms to protect from home invasions and the inevitable murders that accompany home invasions there.
Edit: I have not been to Algiers.
by Anonymous | reply 67 | June 29, 2021 8:18 PM |
R67 but have you been to you?
by Anonymous | reply 68 | June 29, 2021 8:58 PM |
Did Darfur make the list?
by Anonymous | reply 69 | June 29, 2021 9:31 PM |
Honolulu should be higher up the list. It probably would have been, but for the fact that there are so damn many Australians either living or visiting there.
by Anonymous | reply 70 | June 29, 2021 9:32 PM |
Honolulu is like a kitschy, Japanese Miami.
by Anonymous | reply 71 | June 29, 2021 9:55 PM |
Meanwhile 40% of San Franciscans want to escape that gutter
by Anonymous | reply 72 | June 29, 2021 9:59 PM |
R71 At least our buildings don't fall down at the slightest soft breeze.
by Anonymous | reply 73 | June 29, 2021 10:04 PM |
Honolulu has rainforest, volcanic craters and different kinds of beaches. Much more livable than Miami.
by Anonymous | reply 74 | June 29, 2021 10:11 PM |
[quote] How does one explain the fall of Canada?
by Anonymous | reply 75 | June 29, 2021 10:18 PM |
R74 It also has Brit-Brit who has been sending Instagram posts from Maui. See? The crazies love us too!
by Anonymous | reply 76 | June 29, 2021 10:56 PM |
[quote] New York is just turning into a place for Arabs, Russians, and Chinese to launder money.
How pathetic.
by Anonymous | reply 77 | June 30, 2021 12:00 AM |
r 73 Touché!
by Anonymous | reply 78 | June 30, 2021 12:10 AM |
R78. Be sure to capitalize the "R" so it will link.
by Anonymous | reply 79 | June 30, 2021 12:16 AM |
r73 Touché!
by Anonymous | reply 80 | June 30, 2021 1:11 AM |
You don't need to capitalize the 'r', but you DO need it to be right next to the number, without any intervening blank spaces.
by Anonymous | reply 81 | June 30, 2021 1:27 AM |
The one thing you will find with Aussies, when the borders open they love to show the country off, and will often go to great lengths so visitors will have a good time.
by Anonymous | reply 82 | June 30, 2021 9:17 AM |
Another thing you will find with Aussies, is when they travel they never stop talking about "in Australia we do this, oh this isn't as good as in Australia, I'm from Australia" etc.
by Anonymous | reply 83 | June 30, 2021 1:57 PM |
Aussies who travel a lot often don't point to superlative places in their own country. They may have a favorite or two, but it's not unusual to hear it described as the "brown continent". Many have not been remarkable places like Kangaroo Island. People from rather provincial cities like Adelaide seem happy to hear about someone visiting those places even if they haven't been back for ages.
by Anonymous | reply 84 | June 30, 2021 2:01 PM |
[quote]Another thing you will find with Aussies, is when they travel they never stop talking about "in Australia we do this, oh this isn't as good as in Australia, I'm from Australia" etc.
There's some truth to that, but they don't hold a candle to the Americans.
Americans want to compare everything to the yardstick of America and then rank and rate. It's never just observational, "interesting to have to be more mindful of crossing streets because they drive in the other direction," instead everything is a fucking competition, "stupid fucking Brits with their stupid jacked up teeth and stupid can't understand what they're saying accents, of course they drive on the wrong side of the stupid road just to be retarded and do something the wrong way, just like you have to ask them for ice, stupid ice, and then they give you just a little, in a stupid tiny glass, and that stupid Angus Steakhouse in Piccadilly Fucking Circus, it wasn't even all that!"
by Anonymous | reply 85 | June 30, 2021 2:52 PM |
If you want to fuck an Aussie without leaving the continent, go to Whistler BC. They tend to be drunk messes, but they put out.
by Anonymous | reply 86 | June 30, 2021 3:05 PM |
To R42...I like your list better. Bergen, Norway(I could live there), I go there for work twice a year(the men, the scenery, the food) I met a crane operator there(Josef) in Bergen. OMG!! He could have been a Calvin Klein model; even my str8 boss noticed the sexual attraction between us.
by Anonymous | reply 87 | June 30, 2021 3:22 PM |
So glad Toronto didn’t make it. It is a filthy shithole filled with very rude people.
by Anonymous | reply 88 | June 30, 2021 3:26 PM |
R87: Yes, all decisions to move to another country or continent should be strongly grounded in beauty (in its various forms.)
by Anonymous | reply 89 | June 30, 2021 3:37 PM |
r88 = fat
by Anonymous | reply 90 | June 30, 2021 4:28 PM |
Looking at those scores of cities is interesting. Melbourne scored the lowest of any city for Health (83). Perth scored the lowest for Culture & Environment, yet was the only city with 100 in 3 areas (Healthcare, Education, Infrastructure). Brisbane scored lowest for Infrastructure (it must have the old monorails from Expo '88 running as PT). Tokyo and Osaka the only cities to score perfect '100's in Stability.
by Anonymous | reply 91 | June 30, 2021 4:31 PM |
Stand back bitches, this is Adelaide's time to shine!
by Anonymous | reply 92 | July 1, 2021 4:38 AM |
I'm a born and bred Wellingtonian. It's turned into shit hole (and I've lived in SE Asia, China, Russia and Mongolia).
It has sewerage coming up the street because successive councils have been too inept to deal with the ageing victorian pipes. The weather is shit - it's the windiest city in the world. The wages are subpar for the millions of dollars you have to spend to live in the drafty, mouldy, damp houses.
The creativity of the place came from artists and creatives who could afford to live there. They've now been driven out and replaced by English and South African middle-managers and government workers. So very very dull.
Others have been driven out of the city itself so live in the suburbs, and because the roads haven't kept up with the population growth people have to leave to go to work at 6 in the morning or get stuck in traffic for 2 hours.
All the homeless people were rounded up during covid and have been put into apartments in the central city which is now disgustingly full of piss, drunks, meth, and violence.
Wellington is grotty.
by Anonymous | reply 93 | July 1, 2021 5:31 AM |
(R83) If I came from Australia, I wouldn't brag about it.
by Anonymous | reply 94 | July 1, 2021 5:40 AM |
How can it be the most livable when it doesn't even have public transport?
by Anonymous | reply 95 | July 1, 2021 5:42 AM |
R95 I'm not sure if you mean Auckland, but Ardern has promised light rail within her first 10 years. But you are right, they are badly lagging behind the Australian cities on the list.
by Anonymous | reply 96 | July 1, 2021 6:05 AM |
r96 It's too scrasely populated and sprawled out, like the whole country itself. I see no difference between Auckland and your average city of the Midwestern United States such as Indianapolis or Des Moines
by Anonymous | reply 97 | July 1, 2021 6:32 AM |
But what they do have in cross-country travel looks good. Traveling the whole length of the North Island (648km) for less than $200 NZ dollars sounds like a good deal to me, maybe they should start charging more?
by Anonymous | reply 98 | July 1, 2021 6:51 AM |
As a courtesy to visiting Australians I have learned the lyrics and choreography to the Vegamite song.
by Anonymous | reply 99 | July 1, 2021 7:02 AM |
R96 Ardern also promised 100,000 new homes in 10 years. What's happened to that? Oh yeah - after building less than 100 they've scrapped it.
by Anonymous | reply 100 | July 1, 2021 7:04 AM |
I took some Kiwis on a tour of Tijuana once and a couple were afraid to eat the salad at the restaurant Cesar's. You know, like in Caesar salad? I explained to them that this wasn't some dive and was where the famous salad originated, but no dice. So much for their fabulous education system--it's so easy to be "well educated" when you shut out the whole world and have already killed off most of the indigenous. Cheers, Auckland!
by Anonymous | reply 101 | July 1, 2021 7:09 AM |
Looking again at the list it really is mystifying to pick these cities as "most liveable." Granted the selection criteria are so vague as to be malleable to the the desired outcome.
It's not that livability criteria are something that everyone would agree upon, but the top results, individually but more as a whole, just don't overlap with most halfway informed conceptions of livability.
by Anonymous | reply 102 | July 1, 2021 7:47 AM |
Are you American r101? Because if you'r judging a nation's education system on a few NZers that you've met, you'll understand how the rest of the world views you.
by Anonymous | reply 103 | July 1, 2021 11:20 AM |
Kiwis are known more for their passive-aggressiveness. Aussies are the ones who are more cloddishness.
by Anonymous | reply 104 | July 1, 2021 11:41 AM |
[quote]As a courtesy to visiting Australians I have learned the lyrics and choreography to the Vegamite song.
But apparently not how to spell it.
by Anonymous | reply 105 | July 1, 2021 12:14 PM |
Take to account the number of uncut cocks and none of these cities would be in the top 10. 🤮
by Anonymous | reply 106 | July 1, 2021 12:35 PM |
Where’s Bangkok ?
by Anonymous | reply 107 | July 1, 2021 12:54 PM |
After all it’s the most visited city
by Anonymous | reply 108 | July 1, 2021 12:55 PM |
I thought that was Paris, R108.
Interesting.
by Anonymous | reply 109 | July 1, 2021 4:39 PM |
Bangkok will never make a list of most livable. I used to live there and I came to like it, but a top 10 livable city----doubtful. Tokyo makes sense because everything works and they do density well. Singapore also is a "city that works" but it is surprisingly dull and people seem rather glum despite the plenty.
by Anonymous | reply 110 | July 1, 2021 4:56 PM |
[quote]Granted the selection criteria are so vague as to be malleable to the the desired outcome.
The criteria don't look vague to most people R102. From OP's link: [bold]"Classifying 140 cities across five categories including stability, healthcare, culture and environment, education, and infrastructure, this year’s edition of the review has been highly affected by the global pandemic".[/bold]
by Anonymous | reply 111 | July 2, 2021 12:23 AM |
It's basically places that weren't badly affected by covid.
by Anonymous | reply 112 | July 2, 2021 1:25 AM |
At least they're honest that the survey doesn't take into account the intangible qualities that make a city livable (none of which apply to anywhere in Australia or New Zealand).
by Anonymous | reply 113 | July 2, 2021 1:44 AM |
North South envy
by Anonymous | reply 114 | July 2, 2021 1:50 AM |
The only reason Auckland was picked as most livable is because of how "it managed to keep the rona under control". Since it's ALLLLLL about the rona now, the world has become rona-centric and people don't die of anything else anymore. Zzzzzzzzzzz
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