Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Living in the "World's Most Livable City"

Although not necessarily printed in an unbiased journal (The Sydney Morning Herald), Melbourne has ranked as the 'Best City in the World to Live' according to the Economist Intelligence Unit's Global Liveability survey.  It recently supplanted Canada's Vancouver in the rankings, which the article attributes to a low rating in "Infrastructure-" although I'd be more inclined to speculate that it is because in Vancouver, your car may be set alight depending upon the outcome of a hockey game...

Read the full article here.

Unfortunately while ranking number 1 in most livable city, it has also ranked as the 7th most expensive city to live in- 40% higher than New York City.

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