Vancouver's Number One!
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Let the celebration begin... just watch where you step though!
In a survey of 132 cities worldwide, the Economist magazine selected the British Columbian coast city as its most livable city for the fifth consecutive time.
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.
Vancouver scored a livability index of 1.3 per cent, with zero per cent indicating exceptional and 100 per cent indicating intolerable.
Somehow, we get the feeling that they took the survey before the current civic workers strike!
Vancouver tapped as world's most 'livable' city
Canadian Press
August 23, 2007 at 9:24 AM EDT
LONDON — Vancouver has been selected as the world's most “livable city” and Toronto the fifth most livable 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.
Vancouver scored a livability index of 1.3 per cent, with zero per cent indicating exceptional and 100 per cent indicating intolerable.
The downtown core of Vancouver, British Columbia is seen in the background as tourists take in the view from Cypress Mountain on the north shore. (Reuters)
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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.
The magazine says traffic and crime rates caused such cities as New York, Tokyo, London, Hong Kong and Paris to score lower.
Large centres like London and New York also lost marks by fears of terror attacks.
Algiers was the least livable city on the list.
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