most and least livable cities

August 31, 2011

According to The Economist:

The most livable list is dominated by Australia and Canada:

1) Melbourne, Australia
2) Vienna, Austria
3) Vancouver, Canada
4) Toronto, Canada
5) Calgary, Canada
6) Sydney, Australia
7) Helsinki, Finland
8) *Perth, Australia
9) Adelaide, Australia
10) Auckland, New Zealand

At the bottom of the list:

1) Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire
2) Tehran, Iran
3) Douala, Cameroon
4) Karachi, Pakistan
5) Tripoli, Libya
6) Algiers, Algeria
7) Lagos, Nigeria
8) *Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea
9) Dhaka, Bangladesh
10) Harare, Zimbabwe

Actually, despite all my travels, I’ve only been to 3 of the most livable (Vienna, Toronto, Helsinki) and 0 of the least.

[ADDENDUM: If there are still smiley-faces next to Perth and Port Moresby, that is the result of some weird typographical error. I’ll try changing the capital P’s to lower-case and see if that helps. I certainly wasn’t boasting about Perth –where I’ve never been– nor was I gloating over the low rating of Port Moresby, since I wish them all the best.]

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