UK, OZ, NZ - UN Quality of life rankings
Sep 15th 2003, 1:08 pm
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UK, OZ, NZ - UN Quality of life rankings
I've read the pro and con posts on migration between UK, OZ and NZ with a lot of interest and sympathy for the range of views expressed. I wondered how people relate their views to the UN Quality of Life surveys, which put OZ first in 2002, 3rd in 2003, behind Norway and Sweden, both times above Canada which was first for several years before that? The UK typically comes about 13th, NZ about 20th. OZ's performance next to the homogenous, social welfare paradises of Scandanavia is pretty remarkable. I can think of one major factor that wouls retard it - largish, marginalized Aborigal communities and one that gives it a large advantage - carefully selected, healthy, migrants, usually with some savings. And also, Australia's remarkably high urbanization rate (which also increases its crime) And I imagine the UK would be far higher up if SE were an entity in its own right. But NZ has these advantages and is far lower down. NZ also seems far lower on any per capita income/PPT table.
Any insights/opinions much appreciated!
David
Any insights/opinions much appreciated!
David
Sep 15th 2003, 3:35 pm
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Re: UK, OZ, NZ - UN Quality of life rankings
Originally posted by davidw
I've read the pro and con posts on migration between UK, OZ and NZ with a lot of interest and sympathy for the range of views expressed. I wondered how people relate their views to the UN Quality of Life surveys, which put OZ first in 2002, 3rd in 2003, behind Norway and Sweden, both times above Canada which was first for several years before that? The UK typically comes about 13th, NZ about 20th. OZ's performance next to the homogenous, social welfare paradises of Scandanavia is pretty remarkable. I can think of one major factor that wouls retard it - largish, marginalized Aborigal communities and one that gives it a large advantage - carefully selected, healthy, migrants, usually with some savings. And also, Australia's remarkably high urbanization rate (which also increases its crime) And I imagine the UK would be far higher up if SE were an entity in its own right. But NZ has these advantages and is far lower down. NZ also seems far lower on any per capita income/PPT table.
Any insights/opinions much appreciated!
David
I've read the pro and con posts on migration between UK, OZ and NZ with a lot of interest and sympathy for the range of views expressed. I wondered how people relate their views to the UN Quality of Life surveys, which put OZ first in 2002, 3rd in 2003, behind Norway and Sweden, both times above Canada which was first for several years before that? The UK typically comes about 13th, NZ about 20th. OZ's performance next to the homogenous, social welfare paradises of Scandanavia is pretty remarkable. I can think of one major factor that wouls retard it - largish, marginalized Aborigal communities and one that gives it a large advantage - carefully selected, healthy, migrants, usually with some savings. And also, Australia's remarkably high urbanization rate (which also increases its crime) And I imagine the UK would be far higher up if SE were an entity in its own right. But NZ has these advantages and is far lower down. NZ also seems far lower on any per capita income/PPT table.
Any insights/opinions much appreciated!
David
Sep 15th 2003, 4:05 pm
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Re: UK, OZ, NZ - UN Quality of life rankings
Originally posted by robernelli
No idea why NZ should come so far down the ranking on this. However, Auckland came equal 5th along with Sydney in the top cities to live for all round quality of life and Wellington came, I think, just inside the top 20. Not sure who carried out this study but it was considered enough to make the national news sokme months ago. Anyway, London was quite well down and as for other English cities...nowhere to be seen as far as I can remember.
No idea why NZ should come so far down the ranking on this. However, Auckland came equal 5th along with Sydney in the top cities to live for all round quality of life and Wellington came, I think, just inside the top 20. Not sure who carried out this study but it was considered enough to make the national news sokme months ago. Anyway, London was quite well down and as for other English cities...nowhere to be seen as far as I can remember.
So taking the two results together:
UK as a whole has better QoL than NZ
Auckland/Wellington have better QoL than any UK city
Therefore, it follows that UK non city QoL is better than NZ non city QoL. Hmmm - now that makes sense??
Tried to find some more info on the UN website about what factors were included in QoL scores. I failed.
Cheers....Southerner
ps. within NZ other small cities outscore Auckland's QoL scores consistently, but these are not ever included in international comparisons.
Sep 15th 2003, 4:13 pm
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Here's the city list
Vancouver second-best city in world, study says
By JEFF GRAY
Globe and Mail Update
For the second year in a row, Vancouver has finished second in a study ranking quality of life in 215 world cities.
The study, from Mercer Human Resource Consulting — a firm with offices in 40 countries — takes into account public safety, political stability, economics, culture, personal freedom, schools, transit and other public services.
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Vancouver finished first in the same rankings two years ago, but slipped to second last year because of "traffic congestion" — leaving the top spot to Zurich. The Swiss city ranked first again this year.
In this year's survey, Toronto ranked 12th, tied with Brussels and the German city of Düsseldorf and up from 18th the year before. Ottawa was 20th, up five spots from last year. Montreal was 23rd, a two-spot improvement. Calgary was 26th, up from 31st.
Mercer said Scandinavian cities — which usually rank quite high on such surveys — were re-evaluated this year "on the basis of evidence relating to seasonal affective disorders caused by shorter daylight hours."
Some of their rankings appeared to slip as a result.
Helsinki dropped to 26th from sixth, while Oslo sank from 15th to 31st.
Many of the world's most-visited and most-romanticized cities rank quite low on the quality-of-life scale.
London ranked 39th, tied with Boston, Portland, the French city of Lyon and North Carolina's Winston-Salem. At 31st, Paris ranks behind Calgary, on par with the Australian cities of Brisbane and Adelaide and with Yokohama, Japan. New York ranked 44th.
The worst place in the world to live was Brazzaville, capital of the Republic of Congo. It ranked 215th. Many African cities were clustered at the bottom of the scale, but the Iraqi capital of Baghdad was third-last.
Mercer said the rankings were accurate as of November, 2002, but could be re-evaluated, especially if events in the Middle East warrant.
Ranked on public safety alone, Canada's cities are the safest in North America, the study says, "due to strict law enforcement and low crime rates."
All five cities tied for 25th in the world on this measure.
In the U.S., Honolulu, Houston and San Francisco were the safest, tying for 40th place worldwide. Washington, D.C., was North America's most dangerous city, ranking 107th.
Luxembourg was the safest city in the world; Bangui, in the Central African Republic, was deemed the most dangerous.
Overall rankings
Rank
2003 Rank
2002 City Country Index
2003 Index
2002
1 1 Zurich Switzerland 106.5 106.5
2 2 Vancouver Canada 106 106
2 2 Vienna Austria 106 106
2 4 Geneva Switzerland 106 105.5
5 4 Sydney Australia 105 105.5
5 6 Auckland N.Z. 105 105
5 6 Copenhagen Denmark 105 105
5 6 Frankfurt Germany 105 105
5 10 Bern Switzerland 105 104.5
10 10 Munich Germany 104.5 104.5
10 12 Amsterdam Netherlands 104.5 104
12 15 Brussels Belgium 104 103.5
12 15 Düsseldorf Germany 104 103.5
12 18 Toronto Canada 104 103
15 12 Melbourne Australia 103.5 104
15 12 Stockholm Sweden 103.5 104
15 18 Luxembourg Luxembourg 103.5 103
15 22 Berlin Germany 103.5 102.5
15 22 Wellington N.Z. 103.5 102.5
20 18 Perth Australia 103 103
20 18 San Francisco U.S. 103 103
20 25 Ottawa Canada 103 102
23 22 Honolulu U.S. 102.5 102.5
23 25 Montreal Canada 102.5 102
23 35 Dublin Ireland 102.5 101
26 6 Helsinki Finland 102 105
26 25 Hamburg Germany 102 102
26 25 Nurnberg Germany 102 102
26 25 Tokyo Japan 102 102
26 31 Calgary Canada 102 101.5
31 15 Oslo Norway 101.5 103.5
31 25 Brisbane Australia 101.5 102
31 31 Paris France 101.5 101.5
31 31 Yokohama Japan 101.5 101.5
31 35 Adelaide Australia 101.5 101
36 31 Seattle U.S. 101 101.5
36 35 Kobe Japan 101 101
36 35 Singapore Singapore 101 101
39 40 Lyon France 100.5 100.5
39 41 Boston U.S. 100.5 100
39 41 London Britain 100.5 100
39 41 Winston Salem U.S. 100.5 100
39 51 Portland U.S. 100.5 99
44 41 Madrid Spain 100 100
44 41 New York U.S. 100 100
44 48 Lexington U.S. 100 99.5
47 41 Chicago U.S. 99.5 100
47 48 Osaka Japan 99.5 99.5
47 48 Pittsburgh U.S. 99.5 99.5
50 41 Washington, D.C. U.S. 99 100
50 51 Barcelona Spain 99 99
52 54 Nagoya Japan 98.5 98.5
53 35 Los Angeles U.S. 98 101
53 56 Minneapolis U.S. 98 98
55 51 Houston U.S. 97.5 99
55 57 Birmingham Britain 97.5 97.5
55 57 Glasgow Britain 97.5 97.5
55 57 Lisbon Portugal 97.5 97.5
55 57 St. Louis U.S. 97.5 97.5
55 57 Tsukuba Japan 97.5 97.5
55 63 Cleveland U.S. 97.5 96
62 63 Milan Italy 97 96
63 54 Atlanta U.S. 96.5 98.5
63 62 Miami U.S. 96.5 96.5
65 63 Detroit U.S. 96 96
66 66 Yokkaichi Japan 95 95
66 68 Rome Italy 95 93.5
68 67 Omuta Japan 94.5 94.5
69 70 Leipzig Germany 93.5 92.5
70 69 Hong Kong China 93 93
71 71 Katsuyama Japan 92 92
71 71 San Juan Puerto Rico 92 92
73 76 Prague Czech Republic 87.5 89
73 77 Kuala Lumpur Malaysia 87.5 87.5
75 73 Budapest Hungary 87 90.5
75 73 Buenos Aires Argentina 87 89.5
75 75 Montevideo Uruguay 87 89
78 78 Port Louis Mauritius 86.5 86
79 79 Santiago Chile 85 85.5
79 80 Taipei Taiwan 85 85
79 87 Athens Greece 85 82.5
82 81 Cape Town South Africa 84.5 83.5
83 81 Ljubljana Slovenia 83.5 83.5
83 81 Vilnius Lithuania 83.5 83.5
85 84 Johannesburg South Africa 83 83
85 84 Panama City Panama 83 83
87 87 Warsaw Poland 82 82
88 84 Limassol Cyprus 81.5 83
88 90 Dubai UAE 81.5 81
88 94 Seoul South Korea 81.5 80
91 89 Istanbul Turkey 81 81.5
91 105 Papeete French Polynesia 81 77.5
93 91 Monterrey Mexico 80.5 80.5
93 92 Port Elizabeth South Africa 80.5 80.5
93 92 Johor Baharu Malaysia 80.5 80
93 94 Victoria Seychelles 80.5 80
97 94 Riga Latvia 80 80
97 98 Noumea New Caledonia 80 79.5
97 98 Tunis Tunisia 80 79.5
100 94 Kaohsiung Taiwan 79.5 79.5
100 98 Abu Dhabi UAE 79.5 79
100 101 Tallinn Estonia 79.5 79
103 101 Brasilia Brazil 77.5 78.5
104 105 San Jose Costa Rica 77 77
104 105 Bangkok Thailand 77 76.5
106 109 Bratislava Slovakia 76.5 75.5
107 109 Sao Paulo Brazil 76 76
108 101 Lima Peru 75.5 77.5
108 109 Rio de Janeiro Brazil 75.5 76
110 108 Quito Ecuador 75 76.5
110 118 Yeochun/Yosu South Korea 75 73.5
112 104 Manila Philippines 74 77.5
112 112 Guayaquil Ecuador 74 75.5
112 112 Asuncion Paraguay 74 74
112 114 Cairo Egypt 74 74
116 114 Ulsan South Korea 73.5 74
116 116 Bucharest Romania 73.5 73.5
116 116 Casablanca Morocco 73.5 73.5
116 118 Tel Aviv Israel 73.5 73.5
116 118 Manama Bahrain 73.5 73
116 126 Nassau Bahamas 73.5 71.5
122 118 Santo Domingo Dominican Republic 73 73.5
122 123 Colombo Sri Lanka 73 72
124 124 Zagreb Croatia 72.5 72
125 122 Sofia Bulgaria 72 72.5
126 126 Jerusalem Israel 71 71
127 128 Amman Jordan 70.5 70.5
128 130 Manaus Brazil 70 69.5
128 130 Mexico City Mexico 70 69.5
128 134 Rayong Thailand 70 68.5
131 134 Shanghai China 69 68
132 128 Harare Zimbabwe 67 70.5
132 130 Kingston Jamaica 67 69
132 133 Blantyre Malawi 67 68.5
135 137 Bogota Colombia 66 66.5
135 139 Beijing China 66 66
135 140 La Paz Bolivia 66 65.5
138 137 Jakarta Indonesia 65.5 67
139 142 Kuwait City Kuwait 65 64
140 124 Caracas Venezuela 64.5 71.5
140 136 Guatelmala City Guatemala 64.5 67
140 141 Lusaka Zambia 64.5 65
140 144 Guangzhou China 64.5 62.5
144 143 Medellin Colombia 62.5 63
144 144 Nanjing China 62.5 62.5
146 146 Santa Cruz Bolivia 62 62
147 146 Nairobi Kenya 61.5 62
147 149 Riyadh Saudi Arabia 61.5 61.5
149 150 Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam 61 61
150 153 Accra Ghana 60.5 60
150 156 Jeddah Saudi Arabia 60.5 59.5
152 146 Libreville Gabon 60 62
152 153 Dakar Senegal 60 60
152 153 Kiev Ukraine 60 60
155 156 Beirut Lebanon 59.5 59.5
156 158 St. Petersburg Russia 59 59
156 160 Hanoi Vietnam 59 58
156 160 Bombay India 59 58
159 150 Moscow Russia 58 61
159 162 Shenyang China 58 57.5
159 170 Bangalore India 58 54
162 150 Islamabad Pakistan 57.5 61
162 165 Skopje Macedonia 57.5 55.5
162 177 New Delhi India 57.5 51.5
165 175 Madras India 56 52
166 162 Vientiane Laos 55.5 57.5
167 165 Damascus Syria 55 55.5
167 169 Tehran Iran 55 54.5
167 172 Jilin China 55 53.5
170 172 Managua Nicaragua 54.5 53.5
171 168 Cotonou Benin 53.5 55
171 172 Djibouti Djibouti 53.5 53.5
173 159 Abidjan Ivory Coast 53 58.5
173 165 San Salvador El Salvador 53 55.5
175 164 Karachi Pakistan 52.5 56
175 177 Tirana Albania 52.5 51.5
177 170 Lahore Pakistan 52 54
178 179 Yangon Myanmar 51.5 51
179 181 Sarajevo Bosnia-Herzegovina 51 49.5
179 193 Belgrade Serbia and Montenegro 51 45
181 175 Algiers Algeria 50.5 52
181 183 San Pedro Sula Honduras 50.5 49
183 180 Minsk Belarus 50 50
183 181 Tripoli Libya 50 49.5
183 185 Novosibirsk Russia 50 48.5
186 183 Yaounde Cameroon 49 49
186 187 Kazan Russia 49 48
188 185 Douala Cameroon 48.5 48.5
189 187 Havana Cuba 48 48
190 189 Almaty Kazaksthan 47.5 47.5
191 190 Dar es Salaam Tanzania 47 47
192 192 Dacca Bangladesh 46 46
193 191 Port au Prince Haiti 45.5 46.5
194 194 Lome Togo 44.5 44.5
195 196 Baku Azerbaijan 44 43.5
195 199 Addis Ababa Ethiopia 44 43
197 195 Lagos Nigeria 43.5 44
197 196 Maputo Mozambique 43.5 43.5
197 196 Tashkent Uzbekisthan 43.5 43.5
200 201 Port Harcourt Nigeria 41.5 42
201 203 Conakry Guinea 41 41
202 199 Antananarivo Madagascar 40 42.5
202 205 Niamey Niger 40 39.5
202 206 Bamako Mali 40 38.5
202 206 Kinshasa Democratic Republic of the Congo 40 38.5
206 202 Nouakchott
By JEFF GRAY
Globe and Mail Update
For the second year in a row, Vancouver has finished second in a study ranking quality of life in 215 world cities.
The study, from Mercer Human Resource Consulting — a firm with offices in 40 countries — takes into account public safety, political stability, economics, culture, personal freedom, schools, transit and other public services.
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For the whole list
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Vancouver finished first in the same rankings two years ago, but slipped to second last year because of "traffic congestion" — leaving the top spot to Zurich. The Swiss city ranked first again this year.
In this year's survey, Toronto ranked 12th, tied with Brussels and the German city of Düsseldorf and up from 18th the year before. Ottawa was 20th, up five spots from last year. Montreal was 23rd, a two-spot improvement. Calgary was 26th, up from 31st.
Mercer said Scandinavian cities — which usually rank quite high on such surveys — were re-evaluated this year "on the basis of evidence relating to seasonal affective disorders caused by shorter daylight hours."
Some of their rankings appeared to slip as a result.
Helsinki dropped to 26th from sixth, while Oslo sank from 15th to 31st.
Many of the world's most-visited and most-romanticized cities rank quite low on the quality-of-life scale.
London ranked 39th, tied with Boston, Portland, the French city of Lyon and North Carolina's Winston-Salem. At 31st, Paris ranks behind Calgary, on par with the Australian cities of Brisbane and Adelaide and with Yokohama, Japan. New York ranked 44th.
The worst place in the world to live was Brazzaville, capital of the Republic of Congo. It ranked 215th. Many African cities were clustered at the bottom of the scale, but the Iraqi capital of Baghdad was third-last.
Mercer said the rankings were accurate as of November, 2002, but could be re-evaluated, especially if events in the Middle East warrant.
Ranked on public safety alone, Canada's cities are the safest in North America, the study says, "due to strict law enforcement and low crime rates."
All five cities tied for 25th in the world on this measure.
In the U.S., Honolulu, Houston and San Francisco were the safest, tying for 40th place worldwide. Washington, D.C., was North America's most dangerous city, ranking 107th.
Luxembourg was the safest city in the world; Bangui, in the Central African Republic, was deemed the most dangerous.
Overall rankings
Rank
2003 Rank
2002 City Country Index
2003 Index
2002
1 1 Zurich Switzerland 106.5 106.5
2 2 Vancouver Canada 106 106
2 2 Vienna Austria 106 106
2 4 Geneva Switzerland 106 105.5
5 4 Sydney Australia 105 105.5
5 6 Auckland N.Z. 105 105
5 6 Copenhagen Denmark 105 105
5 6 Frankfurt Germany 105 105
5 10 Bern Switzerland 105 104.5
10 10 Munich Germany 104.5 104.5
10 12 Amsterdam Netherlands 104.5 104
12 15 Brussels Belgium 104 103.5
12 15 Düsseldorf Germany 104 103.5
12 18 Toronto Canada 104 103
15 12 Melbourne Australia 103.5 104
15 12 Stockholm Sweden 103.5 104
15 18 Luxembourg Luxembourg 103.5 103
15 22 Berlin Germany 103.5 102.5
15 22 Wellington N.Z. 103.5 102.5
20 18 Perth Australia 103 103
20 18 San Francisco U.S. 103 103
20 25 Ottawa Canada 103 102
23 22 Honolulu U.S. 102.5 102.5
23 25 Montreal Canada 102.5 102
23 35 Dublin Ireland 102.5 101
26 6 Helsinki Finland 102 105
26 25 Hamburg Germany 102 102
26 25 Nurnberg Germany 102 102
26 25 Tokyo Japan 102 102
26 31 Calgary Canada 102 101.5
31 15 Oslo Norway 101.5 103.5
31 25 Brisbane Australia 101.5 102
31 31 Paris France 101.5 101.5
31 31 Yokohama Japan 101.5 101.5
31 35 Adelaide Australia 101.5 101
36 31 Seattle U.S. 101 101.5
36 35 Kobe Japan 101 101
36 35 Singapore Singapore 101 101
39 40 Lyon France 100.5 100.5
39 41 Boston U.S. 100.5 100
39 41 London Britain 100.5 100
39 41 Winston Salem U.S. 100.5 100
39 51 Portland U.S. 100.5 99
44 41 Madrid Spain 100 100
44 41 New York U.S. 100 100
44 48 Lexington U.S. 100 99.5
47 41 Chicago U.S. 99.5 100
47 48 Osaka Japan 99.5 99.5
47 48 Pittsburgh U.S. 99.5 99.5
50 41 Washington, D.C. U.S. 99 100
50 51 Barcelona Spain 99 99
52 54 Nagoya Japan 98.5 98.5
53 35 Los Angeles U.S. 98 101
53 56 Minneapolis U.S. 98 98
55 51 Houston U.S. 97.5 99
55 57 Birmingham Britain 97.5 97.5
55 57 Glasgow Britain 97.5 97.5
55 57 Lisbon Portugal 97.5 97.5
55 57 St. Louis U.S. 97.5 97.5
55 57 Tsukuba Japan 97.5 97.5
55 63 Cleveland U.S. 97.5 96
62 63 Milan Italy 97 96
63 54 Atlanta U.S. 96.5 98.5
63 62 Miami U.S. 96.5 96.5
65 63 Detroit U.S. 96 96
66 66 Yokkaichi Japan 95 95
66 68 Rome Italy 95 93.5
68 67 Omuta Japan 94.5 94.5
69 70 Leipzig Germany 93.5 92.5
70 69 Hong Kong China 93 93
71 71 Katsuyama Japan 92 92
71 71 San Juan Puerto Rico 92 92
73 76 Prague Czech Republic 87.5 89
73 77 Kuala Lumpur Malaysia 87.5 87.5
75 73 Budapest Hungary 87 90.5
75 73 Buenos Aires Argentina 87 89.5
75 75 Montevideo Uruguay 87 89
78 78 Port Louis Mauritius 86.5 86
79 79 Santiago Chile 85 85.5
79 80 Taipei Taiwan 85 85
79 87 Athens Greece 85 82.5
82 81 Cape Town South Africa 84.5 83.5
83 81 Ljubljana Slovenia 83.5 83.5
83 81 Vilnius Lithuania 83.5 83.5
85 84 Johannesburg South Africa 83 83
85 84 Panama City Panama 83 83
87 87 Warsaw Poland 82 82
88 84 Limassol Cyprus 81.5 83
88 90 Dubai UAE 81.5 81
88 94 Seoul South Korea 81.5 80
91 89 Istanbul Turkey 81 81.5
91 105 Papeete French Polynesia 81 77.5
93 91 Monterrey Mexico 80.5 80.5
93 92 Port Elizabeth South Africa 80.5 80.5
93 92 Johor Baharu Malaysia 80.5 80
93 94 Victoria Seychelles 80.5 80
97 94 Riga Latvia 80 80
97 98 Noumea New Caledonia 80 79.5
97 98 Tunis Tunisia 80 79.5
100 94 Kaohsiung Taiwan 79.5 79.5
100 98 Abu Dhabi UAE 79.5 79
100 101 Tallinn Estonia 79.5 79
103 101 Brasilia Brazil 77.5 78.5
104 105 San Jose Costa Rica 77 77
104 105 Bangkok Thailand 77 76.5
106 109 Bratislava Slovakia 76.5 75.5
107 109 Sao Paulo Brazil 76 76
108 101 Lima Peru 75.5 77.5
108 109 Rio de Janeiro Brazil 75.5 76
110 108 Quito Ecuador 75 76.5
110 118 Yeochun/Yosu South Korea 75 73.5
112 104 Manila Philippines 74 77.5
112 112 Guayaquil Ecuador 74 75.5
112 112 Asuncion Paraguay 74 74
112 114 Cairo Egypt 74 74
116 114 Ulsan South Korea 73.5 74
116 116 Bucharest Romania 73.5 73.5
116 116 Casablanca Morocco 73.5 73.5
116 118 Tel Aviv Israel 73.5 73.5
116 118 Manama Bahrain 73.5 73
116 126 Nassau Bahamas 73.5 71.5
122 118 Santo Domingo Dominican Republic 73 73.5
122 123 Colombo Sri Lanka 73 72
124 124 Zagreb Croatia 72.5 72
125 122 Sofia Bulgaria 72 72.5
126 126 Jerusalem Israel 71 71
127 128 Amman Jordan 70.5 70.5
128 130 Manaus Brazil 70 69.5
128 130 Mexico City Mexico 70 69.5
128 134 Rayong Thailand 70 68.5
131 134 Shanghai China 69 68
132 128 Harare Zimbabwe 67 70.5
132 130 Kingston Jamaica 67 69
132 133 Blantyre Malawi 67 68.5
135 137 Bogota Colombia 66 66.5
135 139 Beijing China 66 66
135 140 La Paz Bolivia 66 65.5
138 137 Jakarta Indonesia 65.5 67
139 142 Kuwait City Kuwait 65 64
140 124 Caracas Venezuela 64.5 71.5
140 136 Guatelmala City Guatemala 64.5 67
140 141 Lusaka Zambia 64.5 65
140 144 Guangzhou China 64.5 62.5
144 143 Medellin Colombia 62.5 63
144 144 Nanjing China 62.5 62.5
146 146 Santa Cruz Bolivia 62 62
147 146 Nairobi Kenya 61.5 62
147 149 Riyadh Saudi Arabia 61.5 61.5
149 150 Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam 61 61
150 153 Accra Ghana 60.5 60
150 156 Jeddah Saudi Arabia 60.5 59.5
152 146 Libreville Gabon 60 62
152 153 Dakar Senegal 60 60
152 153 Kiev Ukraine 60 60
155 156 Beirut Lebanon 59.5 59.5
156 158 St. Petersburg Russia 59 59
156 160 Hanoi Vietnam 59 58
156 160 Bombay India 59 58
159 150 Moscow Russia 58 61
159 162 Shenyang China 58 57.5
159 170 Bangalore India 58 54
162 150 Islamabad Pakistan 57.5 61
162 165 Skopje Macedonia 57.5 55.5
162 177 New Delhi India 57.5 51.5
165 175 Madras India 56 52
166 162 Vientiane Laos 55.5 57.5
167 165 Damascus Syria 55 55.5
167 169 Tehran Iran 55 54.5
167 172 Jilin China 55 53.5
170 172 Managua Nicaragua 54.5 53.5
171 168 Cotonou Benin 53.5 55
171 172 Djibouti Djibouti 53.5 53.5
173 159 Abidjan Ivory Coast 53 58.5
173 165 San Salvador El Salvador 53 55.5
175 164 Karachi Pakistan 52.5 56
175 177 Tirana Albania 52.5 51.5
177 170 Lahore Pakistan 52 54
178 179 Yangon Myanmar 51.5 51
179 181 Sarajevo Bosnia-Herzegovina 51 49.5
179 193 Belgrade Serbia and Montenegro 51 45
181 175 Algiers Algeria 50.5 52
181 183 San Pedro Sula Honduras 50.5 49
183 180 Minsk Belarus 50 50
183 181 Tripoli Libya 50 49.5
183 185 Novosibirsk Russia 50 48.5
186 183 Yaounde Cameroon 49 49
186 187 Kazan Russia 49 48
188 185 Douala Cameroon 48.5 48.5
189 187 Havana Cuba 48 48
190 189 Almaty Kazaksthan 47.5 47.5
191 190 Dar es Salaam Tanzania 47 47
192 192 Dacca Bangladesh 46 46
193 191 Port au Prince Haiti 45.5 46.5
194 194 Lome Togo 44.5 44.5
195 196 Baku Azerbaijan 44 43.5
195 199 Addis Ababa Ethiopia 44 43
197 195 Lagos Nigeria 43.5 44
197 196 Maputo Mozambique 43.5 43.5
197 196 Tashkent Uzbekisthan 43.5 43.5
200 201 Port Harcourt Nigeria 41.5 42
201 203 Conakry Guinea 41 41
202 199 Antananarivo Madagascar 40 42.5
202 205 Niamey Niger 40 39.5
202 206 Bamako Mali 40 38.5
202 206 Kinshasa Democratic Republic of the Congo 40 38.5
206 202 Nouakchott
Sep 15th 2003, 9:50 pm
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Joined: Dec 2002
Location: Padbury, Perth WA
Posts: 215
this is an extract from last weeks daily star.....
LIFE`S A BRIT BETTER HERE
YOU may not believe it, but we Brits enjoy a far better life than Germans, Italians and Spaniards.
We`re worse off than those in Iceland, Belgium and Australia - and Norway is the No1 place to live, according to a new survey of wealth and health.
New book The Pocket World In Figures ranks nations according to everything from how much people drink to how many cars they drive. It puts Britain in 11th place, alongside the French and Swiss.
We have more money to spend than the French, but less than the Irish. We also have the 5th highest marriage rate in the world and the 10th highest divorce rate.
When it comes to beer, we Brits are being drunk under the table by our rivals, trailing in at 23rd in the world. The boozy Czechs are rated top.
LIFE`S A BRIT BETTER HERE
YOU may not believe it, but we Brits enjoy a far better life than Germans, Italians and Spaniards.
We`re worse off than those in Iceland, Belgium and Australia - and Norway is the No1 place to live, according to a new survey of wealth and health.
New book The Pocket World In Figures ranks nations according to everything from how much people drink to how many cars they drive. It puts Britain in 11th place, alongside the French and Swiss.
We have more money to spend than the French, but less than the Irish. We also have the 5th highest marriage rate in the world and the 10th highest divorce rate.
When it comes to beer, we Brits are being drunk under the table by our rivals, trailing in at 23rd in the world. The boozy Czechs are rated top.
Sep 15th 2003, 10:04 pm
#6
Joined: Aug 2003
Posts: 11,149
What do you want?
It would interesting to see what they used to measure QOL. Each of us wants something different. The survey is only relevant to those whose aspirations match the measured items.
Sep 16th 2003, 1:07 am
#7
Joined: Aug 2003
Posts: 8,147
Good heavens Daltrey!!!!!!!!!
how long did that lot take to type up?????????
sue:scared: :scared: :scared:
how long did that lot take to type up?????????
sue:scared: :scared: :scared:
Sep 16th 2003, 8:32 am
#8
Here in Dunedin
Joined: May 2003
Location: Dunedin
Posts: 1,975
Re: What do you want?
Originally posted by bondipom
It would interesting to see what they used to measure QOL. Each of us wants something different. The survey is only relevant to those whose aspirations match the measured items.
It would interesting to see what they used to measure QOL. Each of us wants something different. The survey is only relevant to those whose aspirations match the measured items.
Mercer’s study is based on detailed assessments and evaluations of 39 key quality of life determinants, grouped in the following categories:
Political and social environment (political stability, crime, law enforcement, etc)
Economic environment (currency exchange regulations, banking services, etc)
Socio-cultural environment (censorship, limitations on personal freedom, etc)
Medical and health considerations (medical supplies and services, infectious diseases, sewage, waste disposal, air pollution, etc)
Schools and education (standard and availability of schools, etc)
Public services and transportation (electricity, water, public transport, traffic congestion, etc)
Recreation (restaurants, theatres, cinemas, sports and leisure, etc)
Consumer goods (availability of food/daily consumption items, cars, etc)
Housing (housing, household appliances, furniture, maintenance services, etc)
Natural environment (climate, record of natural disasters)
Sep 16th 2003, 10:01 am
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I was right about Auckland coming 5th then! And Wellington came 15th, slightly better than I remembered. My home city came 55th (Birmingham) which I thought was quite good until I noticed we were beaten by 2 places by LA. No way, I demand a re-count! Overall, UK cities didn't fair that bad but no comparison to NZ and Oz which I think is the main point we are trying to make here.
Rob
Rob
Sep 16th 2003, 1:27 pm
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and nz cities hugely outperform their relative gdp/ppp rankings, more so than any others i suspect
david
david
Originally posted by robernelli I was right about Auckland coming 5th then! And Wellington came 15th, slightly better than I remembered. My home city came 55th (Birmingham) which I thought was quite good until I noticed we were beaten by 2 places by LA. No way, I demand a re-count! Overall, UK cities didn't fair that bad but no comparison to NZ and Oz which I think is the main point we are trying to make here.
Rob
Rob
Sep 18th 2003, 8:04 am
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Re: Here's the city list
Originally posted by Daltrey
Vancouver second-best city in world, study says
By JEFF GRAY
Globe and Mail Update
For the second year in a row, Vancouver has finished second in a study ranking quality of life in 215 world cities.
The study, from Mercer Human Resource Consulting — a firm with offices in 40 countries — takes into account public safety, political stability, economics, culture, personal freedom, schools, transit and other public services.
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For the whole list
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Vancouver finished first in the same rankings two years ago, but slipped to second last year because of "traffic congestion" — leaving the top spot to Zurich. The Swiss city ranked first again this year.
In this year's survey, Toronto ranked 12th, tied with Brussels and the German city of Düsseldorf and up from 18th the year before. Ottawa was 20th, up five spots from last year. Montreal was 23rd, a two-spot improvement. Calgary was 26th, up from 31st.
Mercer said Scandinavian cities — which usually rank quite high on such surveys — were re-evaluated this year "on the basis of evidence relating to seasonal affective disorders caused by shorter daylight hours."
Some of their rankings appeared to slip as a result.
Helsinki dropped to 26th from sixth, while Oslo sank from 15th to 31st.
Many of the world's most-visited and most-romanticized cities rank quite low on the quality-of-life scale.
London ranked 39th, tied with Boston, Portland, the French city of Lyon and North Carolina's Winston-Salem. At 31st, Paris ranks behind Calgary, on par with the Australian cities of Brisbane and Adelaide and with Yokohama, Japan. New York ranked 44th.
The worst place in the world to live was Brazzaville, capital of the Republic of Congo. It ranked 215th. Many African cities were clustered at the bottom of the scale, but the Iraqi capital of Baghdad was third-last.
Mercer said the rankings were accurate as of November, 2002, but could be re-evaluated, especially if events in the Middle East warrant.
Ranked on public safety alone, Canada's cities are the safest in North America, the study says, "due to strict law enforcement and low crime rates."
All five cities tied for 25th in the world on this measure.
In the U.S., Honolulu, Houston and San Francisco were the safest, tying for 40th place worldwide. Washington, D.C., was North America's most dangerous city, ranking 107th.
Luxembourg was the safest city in the world; Bangui, in the Central African Republic, was deemed the most dangerous.
Overall rankings
Rank
2003 Rank
2002 City Country Index
2003 Index
2002
1 1 Zurich Switzerland 106.5 106.5
2 2 Vancouver Canada 106 106
2 2 Vienna Austria 106 106
2 4 Geneva Switzerland 106 105.5
5 4 Sydney Australia 105 105.5
5 6 Auckland N.Z. 105 105
5 6 Copenhagen Denmark 105 105
5 6 Frankfurt Germany 105 105
5 10 Bern Switzerland 105 104.5
10 10 Munich Germany 104.5 104.5
10 12 Amsterdam Netherlands 104.5 104
12 15 Brussels Belgium 104 103.5
12 15 Düsseldorf Germany 104 103.5
12 18 Toronto Canada 104 103
15 12 Melbourne Australia 103.5 104
15 12 Stockholm Sweden 103.5 104
15 18 Luxembourg Luxembourg 103.5 103
15 22 Berlin Germany 103.5 102.5
15 22 Wellington N.Z. 103.5 102.5
20 18 Perth Australia 103 103
20 18 San Francisco U.S. 103 103
20 25 Ottawa Canada 103 102
23 22 Honolulu U.S. 102.5 102.5
23 25 Montreal Canada 102.5 102
23 35 Dublin Ireland 102.5 101
26 6 Helsinki Finland 102 105
26 25 Hamburg Germany 102 102
26 25 Nurnberg Germany 102 102
26 25 Tokyo Japan 102 102
26 31 Calgary Canada 102 101.5
31 15 Oslo Norway 101.5 103.5
31 25 Brisbane Australia 101.5 102
31 31 Paris France 101.5 101.5
31 31 Yokohama Japan 101.5 101.5
31 35 Adelaide Australia 101.5 101
36 31 Seattle U.S. 101 101.5
36 35 Kobe Japan 101 101
36 35 Singapore Singapore 101 101
39 40 Lyon France 100.5 100.5
39 41 Boston U.S. 100.5 100
39 41 London Britain 100.5 100
39 41 Winston Salem U.S. 100.5 100
39 51 Portland U.S. 100.5 99
44 41 Madrid Spain 100 100
44 41 New York U.S. 100 100
44 48 Lexington U.S. 100 99.5
47 41 Chicago U.S. 99.5 100
47 48 Osaka Japan 99.5 99.5
47 48 Pittsburgh U.S. 99.5 99.5
50 41 Washington, D.C. U.S. 99 100
50 51 Barcelona Spain 99 99
52 54 Nagoya Japan 98.5 98.5
53 35 Los Angeles U.S. 98 101
53 56 Minneapolis U.S. 98 98
55 51 Houston U.S. 97.5 99
55 57 Birmingham Britain 97.5 97.5
55 57 Glasgow Britain 97.5 97.5
55 57 Lisbon Portugal 97.5 97.5
55 57 St. Louis U.S. 97.5 97.5
55 57 Tsukuba Japan 97.5 97.5
55 63 Cleveland U.S. 97.5 96
62 63 Milan Italy 97 96
63 54 Atlanta U.S. 96.5 98.5
63 62 Miami U.S. 96.5 96.5
65 63 Detroit U.S. 96 96
66 66 Yokkaichi Japan 95 95
66 68 Rome Italy 95 93.5
68 67 Omuta Japan 94.5 94.5
69 70 Leipzig Germany 93.5 92.5
70 69 Hong Kong China 93 93
71 71 Katsuyama Japan 92 92
71 71 San Juan Puerto Rico 92 92
73 76 Prague Czech Republic 87.5 89
73 77 Kuala Lumpur Malaysia 87.5 87.5
75 73 Budapest Hungary 87 90.5
75 73 Buenos Aires Argentina 87 89.5
75 75 Montevideo Uruguay 87 89
78 78 Port Louis Mauritius 86.5 86
79 79 Santiago Chile 85 85.5
79 80 Taipei Taiwan 85 85
79 87 Athens Greece 85 82.5
82 81 Cape Town South Africa 84.5 83.5
83 81 Ljubljana Slovenia 83.5 83.5
83 81 Vilnius Lithuania 83.5 83.5
85 84 Johannesburg South Africa 83 83
85 84 Panama City Panama 83 83
87 87 Warsaw Poland 82 82
88 84 Limassol Cyprus 81.5 83
88 90 Dubai UAE 81.5 81
88 94 Seoul South Korea 81.5 80
91 89 Istanbul Turkey 81 81.5
91 105 Papeete French Polynesia 81 77.5
93 91 Monterrey Mexico 80.5 80.5
93 92 Port Elizabeth South Africa 80.5 80.5
93 92 Johor Baharu Malaysia 80.5 80
93 94 Victoria Seychelles 80.5 80
97 94 Riga Latvia 80 80
97 98 Noumea New Caledonia 80 79.5
97 98 Tunis Tunisia 80 79.5
100 94 Kaohsiung Taiwan 79.5 79.5
100 98 Abu Dhabi UAE 79.5 79
100 101 Tallinn Estonia 79.5 79
103 101 Brasilia Brazil 77.5 78.5
104 105 San Jose Costa Rica 77 77
104 105 Bangkok Thailand 77 76.5
106 109 Bratislava Slovakia 76.5 75.5
107 109 Sao Paulo Brazil 76 76
108 101 Lima Peru 75.5 77.5
108 109 Rio de Janeiro Brazil 75.5 76
110 108 Quito Ecuador 75 76.5
110 118 Yeochun/Yosu South Korea 75 73.5
112 104 Manila Philippines 74 77.5
112 112 Guayaquil Ecuador 74 75.5
112 112 Asuncion Paraguay 74 74
112 114 Cairo Egypt 74 74
116 114 Ulsan South Korea 73.5 74
116 116 Bucharest Romania 73.5 73.5
116 116 Casablanca Morocco 73.5 73.5
116 118 Tel Aviv Israel 73.5 73.5
116 118 Manama Bahrain 73.5 73
116 126 Nassau Bahamas 73.5 71.5
122 118 Santo Domingo Dominican Republic 73 73.5
122 123 Colombo Sri Lanka 73 72
124 124 Zagreb Croatia 72.5 72
125 122 Sofia Bulgaria 72 72.5
126 126 Jerusalem Israel 71 71
127 128 Amman Jordan 70.5 70.5
128 130 Manaus Brazil 70 69.5
128 130 Mexico City Mexico 70 69.5
128 134 Rayong Thailand 70 68.5
131 134 Shanghai China 69 68
132 128 Harare Zimbabwe 67 70.5
132 130 Kingston Jamaica 67 69
132 133 Blantyre Malawi 67 68.5
135 137 Bogota Colombia 66 66.5
135 139 Beijing China 66 66
135 140 La Paz Bolivia 66 65.5
138 137 Jakarta Indonesia 65.5 67
139 142 Kuwait City Kuwait 65 64
140 124 Caracas Venezuela 64.5 71.5
140 136 Guatelmala City Guatemala 64.5 67
140 141 Lusaka Zambia 64.5 65
140 144 Guangzhou China 64.5 62.5
144 143 Medellin Colombia 62.5 63
144 144 Nanjing China 62.5 62.5
146 146 Santa Cruz Bolivia 62 62
147 146 Nairobi Kenya 61.5 62
147 149 Riyadh Saudi Arabia 61.5 61.5
149 150 Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam 61 61
150 153 Accra Ghana 60.5 60
150 156 Jeddah Saudi Arabia 60.5 59.5
152 146 Libreville Gabon 60 62
152 153 Dakar Senegal 60 60
152 153 Kiev Ukraine 60 60
155 156 Beirut Lebanon 59.5 59.5
156 158 St. Petersburg Russia 59 59
156 160 Hanoi Vietnam 59 58
156 160 Bombay India 59 58
159 150 Moscow Russia 58 61
159 162 Shenyang China 58 57.5
159 170 Bangalore India 58 54
162 150 Islamabad Pakistan 57.5 61
162 165 Skopje Macedonia 57.5 55.5
162 177 New Delhi India 57.5 51.5
165 175 Madras India 56 52
166 162 Vientiane Laos 55.5 57.5
167 165 Damascus Syria 55 55.5
167 169 Tehran Iran 55 54.5
167 172 Jilin China 55 53.5
170 172 Managua Nicaragua 54.5 53.5
171 168 Cotonou Benin 53.5 55
171 172 Djibouti Djibouti 53.5 53.5
173 159 Abidjan Ivory Coast 53 58.5
173 165 San Salvador El Salvador 53 55.5
175 164 Karachi Pakistan 52.5 56
175 177 Tirana Albania 52.5 51.5
177 170 Lahore Pakistan 52 54
178 179 Yangon Myanmar 51.5 51
179 181 Sarajevo Bosnia-Herzegovina 51 49.5
179 193 Belgrade Serbia and Montenegro 51 45
181 175 Algiers Algeria 50.5 52
181 183 San Pedro Sula Honduras 50.5 49
183 180 Minsk Belarus 50 50
183 181 Tripoli Libya 50 49.5
183 185 Novosibirsk Russia 50 48.5
186 183 Yaounde Cameroon 49 49
186 187 Kazan Russia 49 48
188 185 Douala Cameroon 48.5 48.5
189 187 Havana Cuba 48 48
190 189 Almaty Kazaksthan 47.5 47.5
191 190 Dar es Salaam Tanzania 47 47
192 192 Dacca Bangladesh 46 46
193 191 Port au Prince Haiti 45.5 46.5
194 194 Lome Togo 44.5 44.5
195 196 Baku Azerbaijan 44 43.5
195 199 Addis Ababa Ethiopia 44 43
197 195 Lagos Nigeria 43.5 44
197 196 Maputo Mozambique 43.5 43.5
197 196 Tashkent Uzbekisthan 43.5 43.5
200 201 Port Harcourt Nigeria 41.5 42
201 203 Conakry Guinea 41 41
202 199 Antananarivo Madagascar 40 42.5
202 205 Niamey Niger 40 39.5
202 206 Bamako Mali 40 38.5
202 206 Kinshasa Democratic Republic of the Congo 40 38.5
206 202 Nouakchott
Vancouver second-best city in world, study says
By JEFF GRAY
Globe and Mail Update
For the second year in a row, Vancouver has finished second in a study ranking quality of life in 215 world cities.
The study, from Mercer Human Resource Consulting — a firm with offices in 40 countries — takes into account public safety, political stability, economics, culture, personal freedom, schools, transit and other public services.
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For the whole list
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Vancouver finished first in the same rankings two years ago, but slipped to second last year because of "traffic congestion" — leaving the top spot to Zurich. The Swiss city ranked first again this year.
In this year's survey, Toronto ranked 12th, tied with Brussels and the German city of Düsseldorf and up from 18th the year before. Ottawa was 20th, up five spots from last year. Montreal was 23rd, a two-spot improvement. Calgary was 26th, up from 31st.
Mercer said Scandinavian cities — which usually rank quite high on such surveys — were re-evaluated this year "on the basis of evidence relating to seasonal affective disorders caused by shorter daylight hours."
Some of their rankings appeared to slip as a result.
Helsinki dropped to 26th from sixth, while Oslo sank from 15th to 31st.
Many of the world's most-visited and most-romanticized cities rank quite low on the quality-of-life scale.
London ranked 39th, tied with Boston, Portland, the French city of Lyon and North Carolina's Winston-Salem. At 31st, Paris ranks behind Calgary, on par with the Australian cities of Brisbane and Adelaide and with Yokohama, Japan. New York ranked 44th.
The worst place in the world to live was Brazzaville, capital of the Republic of Congo. It ranked 215th. Many African cities were clustered at the bottom of the scale, but the Iraqi capital of Baghdad was third-last.
Mercer said the rankings were accurate as of November, 2002, but could be re-evaluated, especially if events in the Middle East warrant.
Ranked on public safety alone, Canada's cities are the safest in North America, the study says, "due to strict law enforcement and low crime rates."
All five cities tied for 25th in the world on this measure.
In the U.S., Honolulu, Houston and San Francisco were the safest, tying for 40th place worldwide. Washington, D.C., was North America's most dangerous city, ranking 107th.
Luxembourg was the safest city in the world; Bangui, in the Central African Republic, was deemed the most dangerous.
Overall rankings
Rank
2003 Rank
2002 City Country Index
2003 Index
2002
1 1 Zurich Switzerland 106.5 106.5
2 2 Vancouver Canada 106 106
2 2 Vienna Austria 106 106
2 4 Geneva Switzerland 106 105.5
5 4 Sydney Australia 105 105.5
5 6 Auckland N.Z. 105 105
5 6 Copenhagen Denmark 105 105
5 6 Frankfurt Germany 105 105
5 10 Bern Switzerland 105 104.5
10 10 Munich Germany 104.5 104.5
10 12 Amsterdam Netherlands 104.5 104
12 15 Brussels Belgium 104 103.5
12 15 Düsseldorf Germany 104 103.5
12 18 Toronto Canada 104 103
15 12 Melbourne Australia 103.5 104
15 12 Stockholm Sweden 103.5 104
15 18 Luxembourg Luxembourg 103.5 103
15 22 Berlin Germany 103.5 102.5
15 22 Wellington N.Z. 103.5 102.5
20 18 Perth Australia 103 103
20 18 San Francisco U.S. 103 103
20 25 Ottawa Canada 103 102
23 22 Honolulu U.S. 102.5 102.5
23 25 Montreal Canada 102.5 102
23 35 Dublin Ireland 102.5 101
26 6 Helsinki Finland 102 105
26 25 Hamburg Germany 102 102
26 25 Nurnberg Germany 102 102
26 25 Tokyo Japan 102 102
26 31 Calgary Canada 102 101.5
31 15 Oslo Norway 101.5 103.5
31 25 Brisbane Australia 101.5 102
31 31 Paris France 101.5 101.5
31 31 Yokohama Japan 101.5 101.5
31 35 Adelaide Australia 101.5 101
36 31 Seattle U.S. 101 101.5
36 35 Kobe Japan 101 101
36 35 Singapore Singapore 101 101
39 40 Lyon France 100.5 100.5
39 41 Boston U.S. 100.5 100
39 41 London Britain 100.5 100
39 41 Winston Salem U.S. 100.5 100
39 51 Portland U.S. 100.5 99
44 41 Madrid Spain 100 100
44 41 New York U.S. 100 100
44 48 Lexington U.S. 100 99.5
47 41 Chicago U.S. 99.5 100
47 48 Osaka Japan 99.5 99.5
47 48 Pittsburgh U.S. 99.5 99.5
50 41 Washington, D.C. U.S. 99 100
50 51 Barcelona Spain 99 99
52 54 Nagoya Japan 98.5 98.5
53 35 Los Angeles U.S. 98 101
53 56 Minneapolis U.S. 98 98
55 51 Houston U.S. 97.5 99
55 57 Birmingham Britain 97.5 97.5
55 57 Glasgow Britain 97.5 97.5
55 57 Lisbon Portugal 97.5 97.5
55 57 St. Louis U.S. 97.5 97.5
55 57 Tsukuba Japan 97.5 97.5
55 63 Cleveland U.S. 97.5 96
62 63 Milan Italy 97 96
63 54 Atlanta U.S. 96.5 98.5
63 62 Miami U.S. 96.5 96.5
65 63 Detroit U.S. 96 96
66 66 Yokkaichi Japan 95 95
66 68 Rome Italy 95 93.5
68 67 Omuta Japan 94.5 94.5
69 70 Leipzig Germany 93.5 92.5
70 69 Hong Kong China 93 93
71 71 Katsuyama Japan 92 92
71 71 San Juan Puerto Rico 92 92
73 76 Prague Czech Republic 87.5 89
73 77 Kuala Lumpur Malaysia 87.5 87.5
75 73 Budapest Hungary 87 90.5
75 73 Buenos Aires Argentina 87 89.5
75 75 Montevideo Uruguay 87 89
78 78 Port Louis Mauritius 86.5 86
79 79 Santiago Chile 85 85.5
79 80 Taipei Taiwan 85 85
79 87 Athens Greece 85 82.5
82 81 Cape Town South Africa 84.5 83.5
83 81 Ljubljana Slovenia 83.5 83.5
83 81 Vilnius Lithuania 83.5 83.5
85 84 Johannesburg South Africa 83 83
85 84 Panama City Panama 83 83
87 87 Warsaw Poland 82 82
88 84 Limassol Cyprus 81.5 83
88 90 Dubai UAE 81.5 81
88 94 Seoul South Korea 81.5 80
91 89 Istanbul Turkey 81 81.5
91 105 Papeete French Polynesia 81 77.5
93 91 Monterrey Mexico 80.5 80.5
93 92 Port Elizabeth South Africa 80.5 80.5
93 92 Johor Baharu Malaysia 80.5 80
93 94 Victoria Seychelles 80.5 80
97 94 Riga Latvia 80 80
97 98 Noumea New Caledonia 80 79.5
97 98 Tunis Tunisia 80 79.5
100 94 Kaohsiung Taiwan 79.5 79.5
100 98 Abu Dhabi UAE 79.5 79
100 101 Tallinn Estonia 79.5 79
103 101 Brasilia Brazil 77.5 78.5
104 105 San Jose Costa Rica 77 77
104 105 Bangkok Thailand 77 76.5
106 109 Bratislava Slovakia 76.5 75.5
107 109 Sao Paulo Brazil 76 76
108 101 Lima Peru 75.5 77.5
108 109 Rio de Janeiro Brazil 75.5 76
110 108 Quito Ecuador 75 76.5
110 118 Yeochun/Yosu South Korea 75 73.5
112 104 Manila Philippines 74 77.5
112 112 Guayaquil Ecuador 74 75.5
112 112 Asuncion Paraguay 74 74
112 114 Cairo Egypt 74 74
116 114 Ulsan South Korea 73.5 74
116 116 Bucharest Romania 73.5 73.5
116 116 Casablanca Morocco 73.5 73.5
116 118 Tel Aviv Israel 73.5 73.5
116 118 Manama Bahrain 73.5 73
116 126 Nassau Bahamas 73.5 71.5
122 118 Santo Domingo Dominican Republic 73 73.5
122 123 Colombo Sri Lanka 73 72
124 124 Zagreb Croatia 72.5 72
125 122 Sofia Bulgaria 72 72.5
126 126 Jerusalem Israel 71 71
127 128 Amman Jordan 70.5 70.5
128 130 Manaus Brazil 70 69.5
128 130 Mexico City Mexico 70 69.5
128 134 Rayong Thailand 70 68.5
131 134 Shanghai China 69 68
132 128 Harare Zimbabwe 67 70.5
132 130 Kingston Jamaica 67 69
132 133 Blantyre Malawi 67 68.5
135 137 Bogota Colombia 66 66.5
135 139 Beijing China 66 66
135 140 La Paz Bolivia 66 65.5
138 137 Jakarta Indonesia 65.5 67
139 142 Kuwait City Kuwait 65 64
140 124 Caracas Venezuela 64.5 71.5
140 136 Guatelmala City Guatemala 64.5 67
140 141 Lusaka Zambia 64.5 65
140 144 Guangzhou China 64.5 62.5
144 143 Medellin Colombia 62.5 63
144 144 Nanjing China 62.5 62.5
146 146 Santa Cruz Bolivia 62 62
147 146 Nairobi Kenya 61.5 62
147 149 Riyadh Saudi Arabia 61.5 61.5
149 150 Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam 61 61
150 153 Accra Ghana 60.5 60
150 156 Jeddah Saudi Arabia 60.5 59.5
152 146 Libreville Gabon 60 62
152 153 Dakar Senegal 60 60
152 153 Kiev Ukraine 60 60
155 156 Beirut Lebanon 59.5 59.5
156 158 St. Petersburg Russia 59 59
156 160 Hanoi Vietnam 59 58
156 160 Bombay India 59 58
159 150 Moscow Russia 58 61
159 162 Shenyang China 58 57.5
159 170 Bangalore India 58 54
162 150 Islamabad Pakistan 57.5 61
162 165 Skopje Macedonia 57.5 55.5
162 177 New Delhi India 57.5 51.5
165 175 Madras India 56 52
166 162 Vientiane Laos 55.5 57.5
167 165 Damascus Syria 55 55.5
167 169 Tehran Iran 55 54.5
167 172 Jilin China 55 53.5
170 172 Managua Nicaragua 54.5 53.5
171 168 Cotonou Benin 53.5 55
171 172 Djibouti Djibouti 53.5 53.5
173 159 Abidjan Ivory Coast 53 58.5
173 165 San Salvador El Salvador 53 55.5
175 164 Karachi Pakistan 52.5 56
175 177 Tirana Albania 52.5 51.5
177 170 Lahore Pakistan 52 54
178 179 Yangon Myanmar 51.5 51
179 181 Sarajevo Bosnia-Herzegovina 51 49.5
179 193 Belgrade Serbia and Montenegro 51 45
181 175 Algiers Algeria 50.5 52
181 183 San Pedro Sula Honduras 50.5 49
183 180 Minsk Belarus 50 50
183 181 Tripoli Libya 50 49.5
183 185 Novosibirsk Russia 50 48.5
186 183 Yaounde Cameroon 49 49
186 187 Kazan Russia 49 48
188 185 Douala Cameroon 48.5 48.5
189 187 Havana Cuba 48 48
190 189 Almaty Kazaksthan 47.5 47.5
191 190 Dar es Salaam Tanzania 47 47
192 192 Dacca Bangladesh 46 46
193 191 Port au Prince Haiti 45.5 46.5
194 194 Lome Togo 44.5 44.5
195 196 Baku Azerbaijan 44 43.5
195 199 Addis Ababa Ethiopia 44 43
197 195 Lagos Nigeria 43.5 44
197 196 Maputo Mozambique 43.5 43.5
197 196 Tashkent Uzbekisthan 43.5 43.5
200 201 Port Harcourt Nigeria 41.5 42
201 203 Conakry Guinea 41 41
202 199 Antananarivo Madagascar 40 42.5
202 205 Niamey Niger 40 39.5
202 206 Bamako Mali 40 38.5
202 206 Kinshasa Democratic Republic of the Congo 40 38.5
206 202 Nouakchott
Wow this is soooooooooooo Nick Hornby - you men and your lists!!!
Sep 24th 2003, 7:22 pm
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Location: Cheshire
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After watching a recent programme on t.v, I believed that Melbourne had been voted the best city, here's why:
melbourne the best city
Face it- Melbourne's perfect
October 04 2002
Melbourne has been declared the near-perfect town after being rated the best city in the world to call home.
In a survey of 130 cities, the Economist Intelligence Unit rated Melbourne and Vancouver in Canada as the best cities in the world in which to live, with Perth ranked third and Sydney, Brisbane and Adelaide tied in eighth place.
Papua New Guinea's capital Port Moresby was rated the worst.
The London-based EIU assessed the level of hardship for expatriates in the 130 cities, focussing on 12 factors including housing, education, recreational activities and climate.
Not surprisingly, Melbourne's weather prevented it earning a perfect score of zero, with the Victorian capital and Vancouver scoring one point, Perth two and Sydney, Adelaide and Brisbane all on four.
Sydneysiders won't agree, but Melbourne's weather, based on humidity rather than rain and temperature, was adjudged better.
And while Sydney received a near-perfect score in all categories, its high level of violent crime, on a par with New York and London, cost it points.
"Really we found very little wrong with Melbourne, it's just about the perfect city," said Bill Ridgers, editor of the EIU's Cost of Living survey.
"It got a perfect score in every single category we looked at, apart from slight faults in its humidity and the availability of recreational activities, but that's really splitting hairs."
Cities were rated one to five in the 12 categories, with one at 0 per cent meaning there was no hardship and five, at 100 per cent, indicating extreme hardship.
Sydney earned a two for violent crime, the same as New York and London, while Port Moresby scored five.
Melbourne received 1.1 for recreational activities, falling down on the availability of concerts and theatre, while Sydney earned one, but Perth received the lowest score of the five Australian cities surveyed.
The survey was split into three categories with the health and safety section rating the threat of violent crime, the threat posed by terrorism or armed conflict and a health and disease assessment.
Culture and environment looked at the availability of nightclubs, restaurants, sporting events, sporting facilities, theatres, cinemas and concerts, as well as studying climate, levels of corruption and the availability of consumer goods and services.
The infrastructure section ranked transport, housing, education and utilities.
Ridgers said although the survey was based on expats' experiences, the factors were broad enough to apply to locals as well.
London was joint 44th on 13 points along with Hong Kong, Lisbon, Madrid and San Francisco, while New York was 52nd on 16, equal with Dublin.
Canada performed strongly with Toronto equal fourth with Vienna, Geneva and Zurich, while Montreal joined Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide, Copenhagen, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt and Oslo in eighth and Calgary was ranked 16th.
New Zealand cities Auckland and Wellington were both ranked 24th.
AAP
This story was found at: http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2...3538761412.html
melbourne the best city
Face it- Melbourne's perfect
October 04 2002
Melbourne has been declared the near-perfect town after being rated the best city in the world to call home.
In a survey of 130 cities, the Economist Intelligence Unit rated Melbourne and Vancouver in Canada as the best cities in the world in which to live, with Perth ranked third and Sydney, Brisbane and Adelaide tied in eighth place.
Papua New Guinea's capital Port Moresby was rated the worst.
The London-based EIU assessed the level of hardship for expatriates in the 130 cities, focussing on 12 factors including housing, education, recreational activities and climate.
Not surprisingly, Melbourne's weather prevented it earning a perfect score of zero, with the Victorian capital and Vancouver scoring one point, Perth two and Sydney, Adelaide and Brisbane all on four.
Sydneysiders won't agree, but Melbourne's weather, based on humidity rather than rain and temperature, was adjudged better.
And while Sydney received a near-perfect score in all categories, its high level of violent crime, on a par with New York and London, cost it points.
"Really we found very little wrong with Melbourne, it's just about the perfect city," said Bill Ridgers, editor of the EIU's Cost of Living survey.
"It got a perfect score in every single category we looked at, apart from slight faults in its humidity and the availability of recreational activities, but that's really splitting hairs."
Cities were rated one to five in the 12 categories, with one at 0 per cent meaning there was no hardship and five, at 100 per cent, indicating extreme hardship.
Sydney earned a two for violent crime, the same as New York and London, while Port Moresby scored five.
Melbourne received 1.1 for recreational activities, falling down on the availability of concerts and theatre, while Sydney earned one, but Perth received the lowest score of the five Australian cities surveyed.
The survey was split into three categories with the health and safety section rating the threat of violent crime, the threat posed by terrorism or armed conflict and a health and disease assessment.
Culture and environment looked at the availability of nightclubs, restaurants, sporting events, sporting facilities, theatres, cinemas and concerts, as well as studying climate, levels of corruption and the availability of consumer goods and services.
The infrastructure section ranked transport, housing, education and utilities.
Ridgers said although the survey was based on expats' experiences, the factors were broad enough to apply to locals as well.
London was joint 44th on 13 points along with Hong Kong, Lisbon, Madrid and San Francisco, while New York was 52nd on 16, equal with Dublin.
Canada performed strongly with Toronto equal fourth with Vienna, Geneva and Zurich, while Montreal joined Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide, Copenhagen, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt and Oslo in eighth and Calgary was ranked 16th.
New Zealand cities Auckland and Wellington were both ranked 24th.
AAP
This story was found at: http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2...3538761412.html
Sep 25th 2003, 8:16 am
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Joined: May 2003
Location: Melbourne
Posts: 334
Different studies, different results.
The ones that rate 'cultural life' highly (theatre) tend to have NZ quite a way down whereas it's high up on those that weight the natural environment highly.
Same with Sydney and Melbourne. Sydney wins out if economic activity is weighted highly, Melbourne wins out if low crime is a big factor.
Oz and NZ still keep way up there in the rankings and Britain's a long way down.
The ones that rate 'cultural life' highly (theatre) tend to have NZ quite a way down whereas it's high up on those that weight the natural environment highly.
Same with Sydney and Melbourne. Sydney wins out if economic activity is weighted highly, Melbourne wins out if low crime is a big factor.
Oz and NZ still keep way up there in the rankings and Britain's a long way down.
