Coming out ahead of every other country, Canada posted three in the 2023 Global Liveability Index’s Top 10.
- Vienna, Austria
- Copenhagen, Denmark
- Melbourne, Australia
- Sydney, Australia
- Vancouver, Canada
- Zurich, Switzerland
- Calgary, Canada
- Geneva, Switzerland (tied Calgary)
- Toronto, Canada
- Osaka, Japan
- Auckland, New Zealand (tied Osaka)
Well, when they say “liveable”, they certainly don’t mean “affordable”.
Ya, that’s clearly not a criterion. Here’s what the article says:
The EIU ranked 173 cities on more than 30 qualitative and quantitative factors across five broad categories: stability, health care, culture and environment, education and infrastructure. Access to health care, amount of green space, cultural and sports activities, crime rates and infrastructure are some of the factors considered in the rankings.
It’s not. That’s why Melbourne and Sydney are up there too.
This is like when your physics teacher says you can ignore friction/air resistance, except here you can ignore affordability
If we take some lessons from the #1 spot we could make some inroads with those affordability issues, though.
Affordability does not appear to be a consideration in this index.
I left Toronto because I couldn’t afford to buy a somewhat cheap condo or a reasonable house. My household income was $160k at the time. It’s a nice city with great services, great people, but the housing is unbelievable - it forced me and my family out with our two kids.
I have also visited Copenhagen and it’s the same there - extremely high housing costs means that you’re poor by default unless you bought in 20-30 years ago. Great, I can buy a beer for 5 kroner, but housing is an apartment for $300k
Calgary, Sydney, Auckland, Vancouver… yes, all of these also apply.
Most livable for who?
Those who can afford to live there, obviously.
Just stop being poor… ???
Calgary is wild
Don’t worry. Further attacks to education and health care will change that.
