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Vancouver World's Easiest Place To Live
Vancouver is the world's easiest city to live in, says a survey released yesterday.
Canadian and Australian cities hold six of the top 10 slots in The Economist's liveability poll, which ranks cities on five factors: health-care, stability, culture and environment, education and infrastructure.
"At the other end of the ranking, most of the poorest-performing cities are in Africa or Asia, where civil instability and poor infrastructure present significant challenges," said the survey's authors.
In ratings ranging from zero (intolerable) to 100 per cent (ideal), Vancouver scores 98 per cent, "benefiting from strong infrastructure." (Harare, Zimbabwe, languishes last, at 37.5).
Vienna is in second place, followed by Melbourne, Toronto, Perth, Calgary, Helsinki and Geneva, with Sydney and Zurich in joint ninth place.
The Japanese city of Osaka is just outside the top 10, in 13th place, and Tokyo is joint 19th with Frankfurt.
European cities where life is generally "not hard" include Stockholm and Hamburg, in 14th place.
Others are Paris (17th), Frankfurt (19th), Copenhagen (21st) and Berlin (22nd).
"Most of the better-scoring locations are based in the more developed regions of western Europe and North America," said the study.
A string of U.S. cities fills the rankings from 30th to 50th position -- Washington is in 35th place, Los Angeles is in 48th -- followed by another smattering of European conurbations: London takes 51st spot and Rome 52nd, while Athens has western Europe's lowest showing, at 63rd spot, on 81.2 per cent.
Any city with a score above 80 per cent "will have few, if any, challenges to living standards," said the survey.
Lower down the order come Moscow, in 69th spot and Beijing, in 76th.
The bottom rankings are occupied by a swathe of Asian and African cities: Manila in 108th, New Delhi in joint 114th spot, with Cairo and Mumbai in 120th.
Vancouver is the world's easiest city to live in, says a survey released yesterday.
Canadian and Australian cities hold six of the top 10 slots in The Economist's liveability poll, which ranks cities on five factors: health-care, stability, culture and environment, education and infrastructure.
"At the other end of the ranking, most of the poorest-performing cities are in Africa or Asia, where civil instability and poor infrastructure present significant challenges," said the survey's authors.
In ratings ranging from zero (intolerable) to 100 per cent (ideal), Vancouver scores 98 per cent, "benefiting from strong infrastructure." (Harare, Zimbabwe, languishes last, at 37.5).
Vienna is in second place, followed by Melbourne, Toronto, Perth, Calgary, Helsinki and Geneva, with Sydney and Zurich in joint ninth place.
The Japanese city of Osaka is just outside the top 10, in 13th place, and Tokyo is joint 19th with Frankfurt.
European cities where life is generally "not hard" include Stockholm and Hamburg, in 14th place.
Others are Paris (17th), Frankfurt (19th), Copenhagen (21st) and Berlin (22nd).
"Most of the better-scoring locations are based in the more developed regions of western Europe and North America," said the study.
A string of U.S. cities fills the rankings from 30th to 50th position -- Washington is in 35th place, Los Angeles is in 48th -- followed by another smattering of European conurbations: London takes 51st spot and Rome 52nd, while Athens has western Europe's lowest showing, at 63rd spot, on 81.2 per cent.
Any city with a score above 80 per cent "will have few, if any, challenges to living standards," said the survey.
Lower down the order come Moscow, in 69th spot and Beijing, in 76th.
The bottom rankings are occupied by a swathe of Asian and African cities: Manila in 108th, New Delhi in joint 114th spot, with Cairo and Mumbai in 120th.