Best Places to Live in the World...

[slurper_la]

...top 20 cities and where do any US cities rank? NO WHERE

nada, zilch, zero.... sad but oh so true


Best Places To Live In The World: Mercer Survey (PHOTOS)

 

[sbat]

Shout out for Curitiba in Brazil - one of the easier "big" cities to get around in the world, I'd say

 

[gymfresh]

I watched a fascinating show about Curitiba a few years ago. Apparently the city models itself a "city of the future", with a super-advanced recycling program (15 years ago!), outstanding transportation and very high quality of life. It's in the south of Brazil, so the weather there is cooler and more varied than much of the rest of the country. What blew my mind was watching the nightly news out of Curitiba -- everyone on the show was blond, to the extent that my brain had trouble processing the Latin language I was hearing with the Scandinavian features of the presenters. It was like Sao Paulo meets Copenhagen.

 

[Bbucko]

Never mind...

 

[slurper_la]

no need to apologize. while I missed that detail it only shows NY was used as a base point and any city could have been chosen.

And Honolulu, the highest ranked US city came in at 31. sad!

 

[D_CountdeGrandePinja]

Yeah, really sad - not only sad but also troublesome. Remember the quote:"You've come along way, baby!"? Nothing good lasts forever - except our love for and with each other.

 

[maxcok]

I'm always amused by the criteria used to come up with these "best places to live" rankings.

They're almost always big cities.

 

[Bbucko]

no need to apologize. while I missed that detail it only shows NY was used as a base point and any city could have been chosen.

And Honolulu, the highest ranked US city came in at 31. sad!

The slideshow didn't list the actual score, just the rank, of the cities pictured. I assumed that somewhere in the top 20 a score would begin to slip below 100 but was mistaken.

FWIW, it seems that the people responsible for this list seem to really like German-speaking places: really really like 'em. That in and of itself waved a red flag in my face. Without ever actually having been to Germany or Austria I have no point of comparison to make between, say, Dusseldorf and Paris or Barcelona, but I still think I'd be tempted to disagree with its findings.

 

[TomCat84]

I love my hometown of San Diego :biggrin1:

 

[FRE]

The best city in the world in which to live depends on what one wants. The best city for one person would not necessarily be the best city for another person.

There is also something to be said for political and economic stability. Although we do have our problems here in the U.S., our country is one of the most stable in the world.

If one likes good weather, one could argue that San Diego is the best city in the U.S. I lived there from 1978 to 2004 and the only reason I didn't return there after living in Fiji from 1994 to 2004 is that housing prices became outrageous. But for people who can afford it, surely it is one of the best places in the U.S, although that could change because of the economic problems being faced by California.

Some surveys rate Sydney very high. I've been there several times and would not want to live there. It's far too big and getting around is too time consuming.

Surveys ranking cities make interesting reading, but I would not recommend making decisions based on them.

 

[B_VinylBoy]

I will say, however, that Amsterdam and Toronto are wonderful places to visit. And the selection of men were quite nice too. :biggrin:

 

[D_Wally Walnuts]

The best place for a female to live is on my face. :tongue:

 

[D_Tim McGnaw]

Dublin came 26th, while London only came 39th, it was a weird day in Hilaire's household when I celebrated that and then cursed it simultaneously.

 

[nudeyorker]

I'm happy in my little grass shack in Honolulu!

 

[BIGBULL29]

I'm happy in my little grass shack in Honolulu!

Why don't you invite me to spend a night in it?:biggrin1:

 

[maxcok]

I love my hometown of San Diego :biggrin1:

The best city in the world in which to live depends on what one wants. The best city for one person would not necessarily be the best city for another person.

If one likes good weather, one could argue that San Diego is the best city in the U.S. . . .

Was one of the most liveable cities in the U.S., until it was overrun by people migrating there from the East with their aggressive assholeish attitudes. I lived there on and off over a period of 30 years, during which the population doubled, traffic became a nightmare, and the infrastructure crumbled - turning it essentially into LA.

Still, I was always amused when it was beat out on "most liveable city" surveys by . . . . Pittsburgh???

 

[rob_just_rob]

They're almost always big cities.

If they listed small towns, they wouldn't be able to handle the hypothetical influx of new residents.

 

[deleted3782]

This just makes me fantasize even more about moving to a new place and starting over. Most of those cities are great. Sydney and Melbourne, in particular.

 

[maxcok]

If they listed small towns, they wouldn't be able to handle the hypothetical influx of new residents.

Thank god for that! I always thought it was funny when people in the West all wanted to move into undeveloped natural areas, then complained about the lack of goods and services, then complained about the pesky wildlife e.g. coyotes, deer, cougars, wolves and bears, then complained that all the people moving in had ruined the "wilderness".

 

[TomCat84]

Eh, San Diego is getting better. It's not quite L.A. yet