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jawnbcTaken from the Vancouver Sun newspaper’s website:http://www.canada.com/vancouver/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=baabf7f7-7ada-4ce6-a7f9-6c735afc8d03
Amy O’Brian, Vancouver Sun Monday, February 09, 2004
We’ve done it again.
Vancouver has been rated the best city to live in the entire world (along with Melbourne and Vienna ... but this is our moment). The news is no surprise to Mayor Larry Campbell nor to folks on the street, but it’s always nice to hear. “It’s a great city. We’ve been saying that all along,” Campbell said Sunday. “Overall, we are, I think, the best city in the world, no matter what you use as a measuring stick.”
The Economist Intelligence Unit -- the business branch of the Economist Group (an international business and world affairs analyst group) -- conducted the survey for the 2003 hardship rating, which examines living conditions for British expatriates in 130 cities around the world. The rating is determined by measuring 12 factors grouped into the categories of health and safety, culture and environment, and infrastructure. Vancouver tied with Melbourne in the 2002 survey, but Vienna is a newcomer to the top of the list.
According to the survey, the worst city for expats is Port Moresby -- the capital of Papua New Guinea -- while Karachi, Pakistan; Dhaka, Bangladesh; and Lagos, Nigeria fill out the bottom of the list.
Canada fared well overall, with Vancouver, Montreal, Toronto and Calgary making it into the top 16 on the list. Australia did even better, with Perth, Adelaide, Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne all in the top 10. No US city made the top 20
Top 20:
1; Vancouver, Melbourne & Vienna
4: Perth
5: Geneva
6: Montréal, Adelaide, Brisbane, Sydney, Copenhagen, Oslo & Zurich
13: Toronto, Helsinki & Stockholm
16: Calgary Dusseldorf & Frankfurt
*with Melbourne Australia (g’day![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
roybear, mpa_melb et al) and Vienna Austria
Amy O’Brian, Vancouver Sun Monday, February 09, 2004
We’ve done it again.
Vancouver has been rated the best city to live in the entire world (along with Melbourne and Vienna ... but this is our moment). The news is no surprise to Mayor Larry Campbell nor to folks on the street, but it’s always nice to hear. “It’s a great city. We’ve been saying that all along,” Campbell said Sunday. “Overall, we are, I think, the best city in the world, no matter what you use as a measuring stick.”
The Economist Intelligence Unit -- the business branch of the Economist Group (an international business and world affairs analyst group) -- conducted the survey for the 2003 hardship rating, which examines living conditions for British expatriates in 130 cities around the world. The rating is determined by measuring 12 factors grouped into the categories of health and safety, culture and environment, and infrastructure. Vancouver tied with Melbourne in the 2002 survey, but Vienna is a newcomer to the top of the list.
According to the survey, the worst city for expats is Port Moresby -- the capital of Papua New Guinea -- while Karachi, Pakistan; Dhaka, Bangladesh; and Lagos, Nigeria fill out the bottom of the list.
Canada fared well overall, with Vancouver, Montreal, Toronto and Calgary making it into the top 16 on the list. Australia did even better, with Perth, Adelaide, Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne all in the top 10. No US city made the top 20
Top 20:
1; Vancouver, Melbourne & Vienna
4: Perth
5: Geneva
6: Montréal, Adelaide, Brisbane, Sydney, Copenhagen, Oslo & Zurich
13: Toronto, Helsinki & Stockholm
16: Calgary Dusseldorf & Frankfurt
*with Melbourne Australia (g’day
roybear, mpa_melb et al) and Vienna Austria
