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Vienna tops list of world's most livable cities

TU Curmudgeon

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From United Press International

Vienna tops list of world's most livable cities
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Aug. 14 (UPI) -- The Austrian capital of Vienna was named the world's most livable city, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit's 2018 global livability index.

The city topped the EIU's list of the 140 most livable cities in the world for the first time with a rating of 99.1 out of 100, unseating the Australian city of Melbourne, which held the title for seven consecutive years.

Both Melbourne and Vienna improved their ratings from 2017, but Vienna's improvements in the stability category helped push it ahead of Melbourne's rating of 98.4.

Australia was tied with Canada for the country with the most cities in the Top 10, with fifth-ranked Sydney and 10th-ranked Adelaide joining Melbourne, while Canada saw Calgary place fourth, and Vancouver and Toronto rank sixth and seventh respectively.

COMMENT:-

What I want to know is why Vancouver and Toronto ranked so low. I mean BOTH of those cities have "Trump Hotels" and Calgary doesn't.

And, of course, the fact that the deliberately fake so-called "report" didn't include any American cities in "The Top Ten" just proves that it is a pile of crap - especially when you realize that nine of those so-called "Top Ten" cities are in MONARCHIES and not **R*E*A*L** countries (which are all Republics) - right?
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Any city where cars are the primary form of transportation get no consideration at all.

You have to live in a cracker box and use public transportation to make the list.

I love driving my big house and my car. Sorry.
 
This means nothing to me. :cool:
 
Erod said:
Any city where cars are the primary form of transportation get no consideration at all.

You have to live in a cracker box and use public transportation to make the list.

I love driving my big house and my car. Sorry.
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You love driving your big house? I don't think big houses are normally street legal, big trailers on the other hand;)

Calgary is #4 on the list and private vehicles are mandatory here for quality of life for all living more than 5 miles from downtown. Public transportation in the burbs will take 2 hrs to go somewhere in which it would take 20-30 minutes by car or truck. My wife has to drive 13 miles to work, I drive 35 miles to work.

Toronto is a vehicle centered area as well (the GTA rivals Chicago in size). I expect the Australian cities listed all have car centric lifestyles as well (outside of the central core)
 
I would like to visit Vienna one of these days. Melbourne too, for that matter. I lived in the Far East for 7 years and wouldn't mind living there part of the year after I retire.
 
These lists are silly. Every city has their good and bad neighborhoods, the key is to live in the former and not in the latter.
 
Erod said:
Any city where cars are the primary form of transportation get no consideration at all.

You have to live in a cracker box and use public transportation to make the list.

I love driving my big house and my car. Sorry.
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Obviously you don't know anything about Vancouver, Toronto (although why anyone who doesn't actually live there would want to), Calgary, Melbourne, Sydney, or Adelaide.

PS - Please be careful when driving your big house the police will likely profile you if they see you driving it with a burned out porch light.
 
TU Curmudgeon said:
From United Press International

Vienna tops list of world's most livable cities
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Aug. 14 (UPI) -- The Austrian capital of Vienna was named the world's most livable city, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit's 2018 global livability index.

The city topped the EIU's list of the 140 most livable cities in the world for the first time with a rating of 99.1 out of 100, unseating the Australian city of Melbourne, which held the title for seven consecutive years.

Both Melbourne and Vienna improved their ratings from 2017, but Vienna's improvements in the stability category helped push it ahead of Melbourne's rating of 98.4.

Australia was tied with Canada for the country with the most cities in the Top 10, with fifth-ranked Sydney and 10th-ranked Adelaide joining Melbourne, while Canada saw Calgary place fourth, and Vancouver and Toronto rank sixth and seventh respectively.

COMMENT:-

What I want to know is why Vancouver and Toronto ranked so low. I mean BOTH of those cities have "Trump Hotels" and Calgary doesn't.

And, of course, the fact that the deliberately fake so-called "report" didn't include any American cities in "The Top Ten" just proves that it is a pile of crap - especially when you realize that nine of those so-called "Top Ten" cities are in MONARCHIES and not **R*E*A*L** countries (which are all Republics) - right?
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A couple of years ago it wasn't so livable. Maybe they've dealt with their rape, gang, drug and crime problems.

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/7995/migrants-rape-austria
 
Lord Tammerlain said:
That is because you like living in ++++hole cities.

I like living in the 4th most livable city in the world;)
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You know, if Calgary would only elect a civic government that kept all the snow on the mountains (after building the mountains) I might like it there as well as I like it in the 6th ranked city.

Besides, I look good in a Stetson.
 
TU Curmudgeon said:
You know, if Calgary would only elect a civic government that kept all the snow on the mountains (after building the mountains) I might like it there as well as I like it in the 6th ranked city.

Besides, I look good in a Stetson.
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Like all city workers, Chinooks only work for a few days at time. Getting plenty of time off to go on vacation. Chinooks are our primary snow removal workers, and when they go on vacation, the snow builds up drastically. Last year I think they worked for 9 days all winter. Lucky for us they work very very cheaply

In Calgary you want Smithbuilt not Stetson. Stetson is an inferior US product:2razz:
 
ludin said:
This is meaningless without the metrics they used to actually come to that determination.
http://www.eiu.com/Handlers/Whitepa...x_2018.pdf&mode=wp&campaignid=Liveability2018

here is the actual white paper.
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The news article contains a link to the report (and it happens to lead to the same document that you linked to).

So, now that you have the metrics (which you had when you started out - because I included the link in the original article), what is your substantive comment?
 
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There was another article (cannot find it to save my ***). Porto, Portugal and Malta were in the top 10. I have been to both and think that, although Malta is very nice, I would feel closed in living on an island. Porto seems like a nice place to live and they are convenient to destinations in Europe. Vienna was also first in the list I saw.....
 
I have a friend that lives there, its a great place. You need money though...
 
Rexedgar said:
There was another article (cannot find it to save my ***). Porto, Portugal and Malta were in the top 10. I have been to both and think that, although Malta is very nice, I would feel closed in living on an island. Porto seems like a nice place to live and they are convenient to destinations in Europe. Vienna was also first in the list I saw.....
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Malta is a cool place. Not many people go there, I loved it. (thanks to Air Malta for the free ticket!)
 
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TU Curmudgeon said:
According to Mercer, Vienna has been ranked as Number 1 since 2012.

I don't put as much faith in biased "scare monger" websites (like the Gatestone Institute) - with a known record for (deliberate?) false reporting - as you appear to do.
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At least one of the rapes reported by Gatestone is true.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...in-austria-jailed-for-six-years-a7083931.html

That's enough for me to accept their credibility on this topic and it's enough to tell me that Vienna might not be all that great a place to visit...especially with children...at the pool.
 
Austrian countryside is great.
 
American said:
Austrian countryside is great.
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One of my cyclist friends went their a few weeks ago and said the riding there was epic. Based on the pictures he took it certainly does look picturesque. The times I've ridden in Europe I really enjoyed riding through the small towns.
 
Mycroft said:
At least one of the rapes reported by Gatestone is true.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...in-austria-jailed-for-six-years-a7083931.html

That's enough for me to accept their credibility on this topic and it's enough to tell me that Vienna might not be all that great a place to visit...especially with children...at the pool.
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you are going to find that the list of places that you can go to, if you restrict that list to places where NO ONE has ever been raped, is likely to be limited to:

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TU Curmudgeon said:
Obviously you don't know anything about Vancouver, Toronto (although why anyone who doesn't actually live there would want to), Calgary, Melbourne, Sydney, or Adelaide.

PS - Please be careful when driving your big house the police will likely profile you if they see you driving it with a burned out porch light.
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Been to Vancouver and Toronto multiple times. Edmonton and Montreal, too. Never been to Australia, but I've been a bunch of places.

On a day-to-day living experience (not the touristy areas of most cities), there is nothing better than American city. Not even close.

And by the way, Canada is just an American territory, so your cities kind of count as ours. LOL
 
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