Vancouver ranked as world’s most livable city
Well that’s the headline everywhere today. However you’ve got to get into the small print to really understand. I rather like the way CBCunlocked.com describes it. That’s the website maintained by locked-out CBC employees so the link may not last for ever. Their item summarizes the situation as follows.
If you must live away from home, Vancouver is the best place in the world to live, according to the Britons who publish The Economist.
Or the least bad. The honour is based in large part on an absence of awfulness.
Despite what is described as a small petty-crime problem, Vancouver tops a list of 127 cities ranked from most livable to most dreadful by the magazine’s Economist Intelligence Unit.
That makes sense if you look down the list. Calgary and Toronto are in a six-way tie for fifth place with Zurich and three Australian cities. Montreal is in a four-way tie for 16th place with Paris, Hamburg and Tokyo.
Tieing for livability with Paris and Tokyo - that sounds about right. Who wants to be top in the ‘absence of awfulness’ scale?
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Some people just can’t appreciate my town. Montreal should be #1, I can’t think of any other place to be.
I agree, Montreal should be #1. We have visited your great city ever since our son went to school at SUNY Plattsburgh. We make at least one or two visits a year to Montreal and just love it. In this day and age, it certainly beats flying to Europe to enjoy the charm of a European city when all I have to do is drive across the border! We love your subway system and use it as our main mode of travel around the city (walking, also). St. Joseph’s Oratory is astounding and is one of our favorite destinations. We also love a great Italian restaurant on Rue Dante, right on the corner, called Casa Mia (or something similar). Great food! Ah, I could go on and on…Montreal has my vote!
Newyorker, I’m surprise to hear this from a New Yorker (Unless you are refering to the state) because NY and MTL have been competing for the best bagels and best smokedmeat sandwiches for years :D But thanks… I love this town and can’t imagine leaving it.
When you get back, look for Pizza Napolitan (I believe it’s on Mozart, in little Italy in Montreal), the first pizzaria in MTL. But don’t eat the pizza , it isn’t that great(although some would disagree). Get the pasta for the main and the sausage entr
Yes, NY state, not the city…I lived there many years ago before Rudy Guliani cleaned it up (it was disgusting 30 years ago!); although an NYC bagel can’t be beat, anywhere! Maybe even pizza! We have been to Notre-Dame in Old Montreal - it, like St. Josephs, is filled with an intense, incredible spiritual energy…
We never miss walking around old Montreal, enjoying the many fine eating places and the harbor area. We will definitely check out your suggested restaurant in little Italy, thanks.
This is a fantastic city meriting many flattering adjectives, though “liveable” isn’t the first. But if you guys can impove the coffee (seriously, the watery nonsense served here is an insult to the fine bagels) and warm up the winters, I’d put you in a tie for first with Van. ;-)
Global warming should correct the cold winters. That’s why I moved north.
tashkent is by far the best city in the world…uzbekistan is really georgeous.than you.