Where do you want to live?

The Economist has just published the ranking of top cities with the highest liveability. It turned out that 6 cities (!!) in Canada and Australia are in the top ten! Unbelievable.

There were 140 cities (worldwide) taken under consideration. Each city was assigned a score for over 30 qualitative and quantitative factors across five broad categories:

stability

health care

culture and environment

education

infrastructure

The categories provide an overall rating of 1–100, where 1 is considered intolerable and 100 is considered ideal.

It turns out that the best place to live in is Vancouver (isn't it too cold?) with a rating of 98.0; Sydney and Zurich, sharing ninth place, achieved a score less than 2% lower than Vancouver’s.

Here's the top ten list:


As for the Italian cities, of course only Roma (no.52) and Milan (no.50) were considered in the survey. But can you imagine that London was on position no.51 and New York no.56?! Amazing!

So on a private note, I want to say: "Al, you're SO lucky! Congratulations!" : )

And what about you? Where would you like to live? Do you like the city you live in at present? If not, what is the place of your dreams? In my Top 5 there would be definitely: Milan, London, Paris and New York.