World's Most Liveable Cities

[Lyze]

What do you think about this year's ratings?

Do you consider these ratings at all? Do you take them seriously or do you think them a fad to be ignored? There is more than one "Liveable City" list or index, so which one do you think is the most authoritative? Discuss.

Personally, I'm always proud to see my city at the top of the list so consistently.

 

[Sushiman70]

Wow, how much did the Australian tax payer have to give for that?

 

[Chechen!]

It lacks Utrecht thus making it bull.

I think they spent too much attention into the pretty sights.

 

[Swadius 2.0]

Toronto #4? But everyone hates Toronto! Who in their right mind would live in that backwards dump?

 

[Lyze]

Swadius, I hear Metro Toronto is actually really nice. It's just everything outside that square kilometre or three that's toxic death.

 

[Jace]

I wouldn't call any city 'liveable'. Countryside for win.

 

[DameGreyWulf]

^ Ditto. Cities scare me.

 

[Elenmmare]

Seems to have some fairly Western bias. The fact that the top-ranked Japanese city is only 12th seems ridiculous. How can you have the second-lowest homicide rate in the world along with some of the best public transit, infrastructure and health-care and score lower than Toronto?

Plus Japan doesn't have any internet-caps.

 

[Orion]

How can you ... score lower than Toronto?

Plus Japan doesn't have any internet-caps.

Hentai tentacle rape porn.

Lots of it.

 

[vadermath]

Sure, but does the unlimited availability of tentacle hentai porn truly help qualify a city as "liveable"?

I'm inclined to say **** YEAH.

 

[Cyborg Eastern European]

^ Ditto. Cities scare me.

Same here.
Far too many people.

 

[Elenmmare]

Try living rural, like really rural. I enjoy pretending to love small-town life as much as the next cavalier, but with our kinds of views, we'd end up killing our neighbours or being served as dinner.

Small towns are strange places.

 

[Troll]

I wouldn't call any city 'liveable'. Countryside for win.

Indeed. Even those places that in Finland are called cities are way too much for me...

 

[AWdeV]

How about growing up in a village with roughly 600 inhabitants, 2 primary school, a church and no other facilities what-so-****ing-ever?
'course, a small town a few kilometers away and adjacent village is even smaller/****tier (they go to the schools here).
This country is probably a tad too civilised for Ellies' "really rural" qualification.


I'm also now living in the centre of The Hague. I love living in both places.

edit: @people, stop ****ing ninja'ing. Here and in pissed off.

 

[Elenmmare]

How about growing up in a village with roughly 600 inhabitants, 2 primary school, a church and no other facilities what-so-****ing-ever?
'course, a small town a few kilometers away and adjacent village is even smaller/****tier (they go to the schools here).
This country is probably a tad too civilised for Ellies' "really rural" qualification.
I'm also now living in the centre of The Hague. I love living in both places.
edit: @people, stop ****ing ninja'ing. Here and in pissed off.

Dude, very true. Our rural life sees paramedics arrive in helicopters.

 

[AWdeV]

Yes, but you're a nigh-medieval wasteland.

 

[vadermath]

I find small towns scary too. I live in a town of about 120 000 people, but my grandpa comes from a town of about 200 people, of which exactly 66 people are my relatives. It's scary, when you go out for a walk there, everybody knows each other, and they all look at you like you're a serial killer or something if they don't know you

 

[Cyborg Eastern European]

Heh.
The town here is some eight thousand.
The only thing here that isn't part of the essential infrastructure is a ****ton of bars.

 

[Pharaoh Llandy]

Doesn't surprise me to see Helsinki on the list, Finland is always coming high in the Standard of Living scores, but I'm a bit surprised that Stockholm isn't on there. I wonder what the Swedes are doing wrong this year.

 

[Gunrunner]

How can London not have made the list?