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Coming out ahead of every other country, Canada posted three in the 2023 Global Liveability Index's Top 10.

  1. Vienna, Austria
  2. Copenhagen, Denmark
  3. Melbourne, Australia
  4. Sydney, Australia
  5. Vancouver, Canada
  6. Zurich, Switzerland
  7. Calgary, Canada
  8. Geneva, Switzerland (tied Calgary)
  9. Toronto, Canada
  10. Osaka, Japan
  11. Auckland, New Zealand (tied Osaka)
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[–] Underwaterbob@lemm.ee 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Well, when they say "liveable", they certainly don't mean "affordable".

[–] sik0fewl@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] RandAlThor@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

It's not. That's why Melbourne and Sydney are up there too.

[–] Gleddified@lemmy.ca 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is like when your physics teacher says you can ignore friction/air resistance, except here you can ignore affordability

[–] grte@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] zork@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago

Just stop being poor... ???

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.

[–] rad@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago

Those who can afford to live there, obviously.

[–] zephyreks@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Don't worry. Further attacks to education and health care will change that.