Most Liveable City - 3rd Melbourne

[axe168]

Perth is as liveable as Adelaide but behind Sydney and Melbourne according to the latest edition of the Economist magazine’s global liveability survey.

But the WA capital is still an enviable 8th place among the 140 global cities surveyed by the magazine’s intelligence unit for the annual index, released overnight.

The survey ranks cities across 30 indicators of relative comfort in five broad categories: stability, healthcare, culture and environment, education and infrastructure.

Cities are given a relative score between zero and 100. Perth achieved 95.9.

Vancouver might be battling to produce enough snow for the 2010 Winter Olympics, which begin tomorrow, but it can take solace in its No.1 ranking with a score of 98.0.

The Austrian capital Vienna was ranked second with a score of 97.9 and Melbourne third, with 97.5. Sydney is seventh with 96.1 and Adelaide tied with Perth for eighth.

The top ten was dominated by Canadian (three) and Australian (four) cities.

New Zealand’s top performer, Auckland, slotted in behind Perth and Adelaide with 95.7.

2012 Summer Olympics host London ranked in 54th position, while Johannesburg, which will host the final of the 2010 soccer World Cup, ranked 92nd.

THE TOP TEN
1. Vancouver (Canada)
2. Vienna (Austria)
3. Melbourne (Australia)
4. Toronto (Canada)
5. Calgary (Canada)
6. Helsinki (Finland)
7. Sydney (Australia)
=8. Perth (Australia)
=8. Adelaide (Australia)
10. Auckland (New Zealand)

THE BOTTOM TEN
140. Harare (Zimbabwe)
=138. Dhaka (Bangladesh)
=138. Algiers (Algeria)
137. Port Moresby (Papua New Guinea)
136. Lagos (Nigeria)
135. Karachi (Pakistan)
134. Doulala (Cameroon)
133. Kathmandu (Nepal)
132. Colombo (Sri Lanka)
=130. Dakar (Senegal)
=130. Tehran (Iran)

 

[Leongsam]

Feb 12, 2010
S'pore - 53rd most liveable
By Jessica Lim

SINGAPORE scores highly in areas like infrastructure and stability, but fares poorly in culture and living environment indices.

As a result, it was ranked the 53rd most liveable city in the annual survey by the The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), which compared 140 cities worldwide. Vancouver again topped the list, followed by Vienna and Melbourne in Australia. Three other Australian cities also made it to the top 10 list - Sydney, Perth and Adelaide.

The Republic scored better than culture capitals New York and London, which lost out because of crumbling infrastructure, but lagged behind other Asian capitals like Hong Kong, Tokyo and Osaka.

The survey examined 30 factors in five categories - stability, healthcare, culture and environment, education as well as infrastructure. Singapore obtained an overall score of 88.5/100.

The annual survey uses research involving resident experts and its own analysts.

Singapore lost out in the environment and culture category, in which it scored 75.7/100, lower than Hong Kong and South Korea. But it got full marks for infrastructure. The Lion City also fared well for stability, healthcare and education.

Read also:
Vancouver is most liveable

 

[neddy]

Perth is as liveable as Adelaide but behind Sydney and Melbourne according to the latest edition of the Economist magazine’s global liveability survey.

But the WA capital is still an enviable 8th place among the 140 global cities surveyed by the magazine’s intelligence unit for the annual index, released overnight.

As long as you have loads of money, a lot of places are liveable.
But if you have no money, even Vancouver can be hell.

 

[axe168]

As long as you have loads of money, a lot of places are liveable.
But if you have no money, even Vancouver can be hell.

Money is like a cheese, we have to find it, instead of sitting there and wait for the cheese to come. I am born poor ~ borrowed money for overseas study, borrowed money for 1 apartment, recently, borrowed money for investments. this doesn't mean I have to be poor all the time.. my final aim is to retire rich

Liveable City, Money, Job and Happiness....

If we seek... and we shall find...

 

[wendypoh]

This one should appeal to the guys Reason to live in Australia?


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It took a certain resolve to get out of bed at 3.30am and join a queue that stretched from the Opera House forecourt and around Circular Quay to the Museum of Contemporary Art. The wind was nippy.

Getting naked with 5200 people? That was the easy part. That it was also joyous, life-affirming and fun -- have you ever seen 5000 people jumping out of their skin? -- was due to US artist Spencer Tunick, who does this kind of thing around the world.

Tunick creates installations in which naked people occupy a landscape -- such as a square in Mexico City or a Swiss glacier -- and he photographs them. His Sydney project was a commission from the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, called The Base.

Humankind was revealed in its naked magnificence, with contemporary modifications: tattoos, piercings, intimate hairstyles, the tanlines of late summer.

Skin brushed against skin, not in a sleazy way, as we took our positions on the Opera House forecourt and steps.

Believe me, everyone looked better at that moment than when we arrived. This motley crowd, once shed of trackies, board shorts and sweat tops, became united in some way.

Tunick said last week that the Sydney project had two dimensions. The outdoor part -- in which we stood uniformly to attention, then carpeted the cold paving, and kissed or hugged our neighbours -- was the political one, a statement of our common humanity.

The indoor part -- in which we draped our bodies across the seats of the Concert Hall -- was more an exercise of composition. We were like Michelangelo's Ignudi in the Sistine Chapel.

Shortly before 9am, after we'd been there nearly five hours, Tunick directed us into one final pose, so that we'd look towards the pipes above the stage.

"Face the organ," he said.

There was an eruption of laughter at this, in a day that was otherwise free of double entendres. No wonder everyone left with a smile on their face.

 

[Ash007]

Feb 12, 2010

Singapore lost out in the environment and culture category, in which it scored 75.7/100, lower than Hong Kong and South Korea. But it got full marks for infrastructure. The Lion City also fared well for stability, healthcare and education.

Read also:
Vancouver is most liveable

Singapore has no environment or culture? What happen to the garden city reputation or the "multi-cultural" aspects that the MIW keeps pushing of Singapore?

 

[Don Muthuswamy]

I don't believe that the Indians who got bashed up in Melbourne would subscibe to this opinion.