Toronto again named world’s 4th most liveable city

[canada-man]

Toronto has again made the Top 5 in a list of the most liveable cities in the world, according to an annual survey by an independent business associated with The Economist magazine.

The city placed fourth on the Economist Intelligence Unit’s ranking of 140 cities for the third year in a row, behind Melbourne, Vienna and Vancouver and ahead of Calgary.

The ranking is based on 30 factors including the quality of health care or the threat of military conflict.

Vancouver spent almost a decade in first place before Melbourne moved to the top of the list.

The lowest livability score was shared by Damascus, because of Syria’s ongoing civil war, and Karachi, Pakistan.

London and New York have been ranked as numbers 55 and 56 respectively, mainly because of a perceived risk of terrorism, according to the report.


http://www.citynews.ca/2013/08/29/toronto-again-named-worlds-4th-most-liveable-city-2/

 

[eldoguy]

Gridlock is a fricken problem living in T O, will never change.:frusty:

 

[George The Curious]

Factor in the cost of living especially home ownership, I bet it looks average at best.

 

[JackBurton]

Impossible. There's got to be a propaganda skew in these results. There is no way Toronto can beat cities like Rome, Florence, Arles, Paris, cologne, Perth, Hong Kong, NYC or even the smaller cities like San Diego.

We have a crackhead, pot smoking mayor who hasn't don't anything to improve the city except throw out a transit plan and coach football (poorly).

I call bullshit on the article.

 

[blackrock13]

Impossible. There's got to be a propaganda skew in these results. There is no way Toronto can beat cities like Vienna, Rome, Florence, Arles, Paris, cologne, Perth, Hong Kong, NYC or even the smaller cities like San Diego.

We have a crackhead, pot smoking mayor who hasn't don't anything to improve the city except throw out a transit plan and coach football (poorly).

I call bullshit on the article.

Since the mayor has not been proven to be a crackhead, just claims, and what's your point? Spend much time outside the country, and talk to others, do you? What would the Economist gain by fudging the results? I'll help, nothing.

 

[onthebottom]

I don't think this is surprising, Toronto is a very clean and easy city to get around, during the blackout a decade ago someone described it as NYC if the Swiss ran it.... It might be over valued and expensive from a tundra perspective but when compared to large international cities it's not exceptionally expensive.

OTB

 

[red]

I don't think this is surprising, Toronto is a very clean and easy city to get around, during the blackout a decade ago someone described it as NYC if the Swiss ran it.... It might be over valued and expensive from a tundra perspective but when compared to large international cities it's not exceptionally expensive.

OTB

true enough. its expensive compared to wawa or oshawa but not one of the major cities in the world.

 

[Phil C. McNasty]

Gridlock is a fricken problem living in T O, will never change.:frusty:

Heh, you think thats bad wait till you go to some Asian countries. There you can spend 4 to 5 hours in traffic jams

 

[rld]

Impossible. There's got to be a propaganda skew in these results. There is no way Toronto can beat cities like Vienna, Rome, Florence, Arles, Paris, cologne, Perth, Hong Kong, NYC or even the smaller cities like San Diego.

We have a crackhead, pot smoking mayor who hasn't don't anything to improve the city except throw out a transit plan and coach football (poorly).

I call bullshit on the article.

Perhaps you should you know...read the article. Vienna finished ahead of TO.

 

[JackBurton]

Since the mayor has not been proven to be a crackhead, just claims, and what's your point? Spend much time outside the country, and talk to others, do you? What would the Economist gain by fudging the results? I'll help, nothing.

He's a self admitted pot smoker and a man lacking in moral fibre. The crackhead allegations will prove true, give it time. In the meantime he will continue to fuck the city out of ways to make it livable. He's had three years to make good on his election promises and had done sweet fuck all

 

[Mervyn]

Does anyone know what all the criteria for this report were ?

 

[blackrock13]

He's a self admitted pot smoker and a man lacking in moral fibre. The crackhead allegations will prove true, give it time. In the meantime he will continue to fuck the city out of ways to make it livable. He's had three years to make good on his election promises and had done sweet fuck all

Apparently he hasn't fucked it up to take off the 10 best list, not even out the top five again. The Economist must be on the take.

 

[spraggamuffin]

Does anyone know what all the criteria for this report were ?

Probably the same type of verbage they spew to potential immigrants about how rosy things are in Canada and they'll get a job in their field etc etc....

I admit it may still be better than many cities around the world even if they told the truth about he gridlock, crumbling infrastructure, lacking public transit and undeveloped waterfront.

 

[JackBurton]

Give him time. It takes a while to unravel all the good things in the city. He will get to it and then we won't even appear on the list

 

[canada-man]

Heh, you think thats bad wait till you go to some Asian countries. There you can spend 4 to 5 hours in traffic jams

many Asian cities have better public transit than Toronto.

 

[Butler1000]

Give him time. It takes a while to unravel all the good things in the city. He will get to it and then we won't even appear on the list

Apparently someone hasn't followed the news on the recently resigned Mayor of San Diego..........

Or the Riots in Paris immigrant areas........

Or that Venice may well sink/be drowned.........

Grass is always greener........

 

[red]

Apparently someone hasn't followed the news on the recently resigned Mayor of San Diego..........

Or the Riots in Paris immigrant areas........

Or that Venice may well sink/be drowned.........

Grass is always greener........

especially true if you never travelled

 

[Phil C. McNasty]

many Asian cities have better public transit than Toronto

I wasnt talking about public transit, I was talking about traffic congestion for personal vehicles.


Dacca Bangladesh looks something like this every weekday

 

[George The Curious]

I wasnt talking about public transit, I was talking about traffic congestion for personal vehicles.


Dacca Bangladesh looks something like this every weekday

looks just like dvp or gardener on rush hour. no wonder bangladesh immigrants tend to live in the suburbs. They did not come to Canada just to get into another traffic congestion.

 

[Yoga Face]

does report include SPs and MPAs?