Vancouver selected world's 'most liveable city by The Economist

[Sportsdude]

Vancouver has been selected as the world's most "liveable city" and Toronto the fifth most liveable in a survey of 132 cities by the Economist magazine.   The Economist Intelligence Unit says Vancouver was chosen number-one due to a low crime rate, little threat from instability or terrorism and a highly developed transport and communications infrastructure. [/p]  Vancouver scored a liveability index of 1.3 per cent, with zero per cent indicating exceptional and 100 per cent indicating intolerable.
[/p] The list published on the Economist.com website shows four Australian cities - Melbourne, Perth, Adelaide and Sydney - in the top 10, which also included Vienna, Copenhagen, Geneva and Zurich. [/p]   The magazine says traffic and crime rates caused such cities as New York, Tokyo, London, Hong Kong and Paris to score lower.
[/p] Algiers was the least liveable city on the list.

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[purelife]

and The "Economist" failed to include how fracking expensive Vancouver is!

[Sportsdude]

well it is the "Economist" which gears towards people with super high incomes and not us regular folks.  

[Hobbit]

I was speaking to some friends from Japan this past weekend and they said that Vancouver is still much cheaper than Tokyo. So, I guess that as part of being an international city we'll have to get used to international prices. We're still cheaper than a lot of other major cities, so my guess is that things can only go up.