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Australia - 2nd Best Place to Live UN study
Posted by acousticguitarist • 10/05/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
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I just heard that Australia has been rated the second best place to live in by a UN study. Norway was rated number one.
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Although I agree with your findings AG, a "country" is often too big to consider as one unit. A "city" is a more useful unit of analysis.
The Economist Intelligence Unit's livability measure (published by the UN) shows cities in Canada, Australia, Austria, Finland and Switzerland as the ideal destinations thanks to free health care, good services, no guns, decent weather (sic) and public transport accessible by all citizens.
The 2009 report placed Vancouver as the most livable city in the world, with Vienna taking second place followed by Melbourne. Two other Australian capital cities (Perth and Sydney) claimed positions in the top ten. Other Canadian cities also ranked highly in the survey: Toronto, Calgary, Ottawa and Montreal. Vienna, Helsinki, Geneva and Zürich also ranked in the top cities.
In previous years, Melbourne and Sydney just pipped out Vancouver, Montreal and Toronto, so presumably the variables are stable. -
these are not my findings
these are my findings, I live just near here
My favourite cities are Madras and Copenhagen-
ahhhhhh nice life, if you can get it AG
My favourite cities, for holidays or studies, are Florence, Venice, Tel Aviv and Athens. These cities are very warm, Mediterranean, historic, artistic.
Ohhh plus Cambridge, Oxford, Paris.. and did I mention Stockholm, Berlin and Vienna? I would be delighted to live for a year or two in any of these fabulous places.
But to live in over the very long term, I suppose you cannot go past Melbourne, Sydney, Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal.
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I seriously doubt any survey that ranks Helsinki amongst the most livable cities in the world. Even though it has it's advances; It's pretty much the only capital that you can actually live IN the city, like our apartment was one street off the city centre, but was it enjoyable...? Not really. If I was 20-year old, then heck yes, but after you don't want to go out every night, nor want to shop every day, it's not too much fun anymore.
Sure, there's no guns (apart from occasional school shootings of course), health care is affordable (but it's not free by any stretch of imagination). The scenery is not good, the weather is not "decent" apart from maybe 2-3 months of the year, but the worst thing of all; it is very, very hard to make friends, which lowers the quality of life dramatically. I have an American friend living in Helsinki, who hasn't managed to make one friend in two years. One week she emailed me and said the highlight of her week was having a blood test, as the nurse HAD TO touch her. Without the help of the Internet or being at school, you're pretty much doomed to life without any human contact at all. (The good thing is that people there love the internet and are very good at making friends online, BUT if you're not comfortable with that, then... Tough bananas.)
I also doubt any study that doesn't rank Australia to the very top of the list. -
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don't they have, giant man eating spiders?-
No, the trouble is the spiders that are too small for you to see before you're dead.
And the sharks - but Aussies fight them off with bare hands (what's left of them at least).
And the poisonous fish.
And snakes....
They do like their deadly wild life here. XD
And I will never go swimming in this country, ever. It's a frigging suicide. XD -
yeah, I lost a friend last week, it only left her sneakers
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Sebas... you'll never going swimming?
I only know three people who drowned, that's a pretty good record considering how many people I know -
My condolences acoustic
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dbowles: it's ok, I got a good price for the sneakers
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The bush fires are worse.
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Where do the Fuedal States of America rank?-
States of where? :-)
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