The Ecoomist’s sister company has rated the best, and worst, cities in which to live;
Here is a map showing the 173 cities featured. (The ten best and worst at the end):
Update: Sorry, that wasn’t the most successful “cut and past”. Here is top 5 in text:
Vienna took the top spot once again in 2024, earning the title of the most liveable city in the world for a third consecutive year. The Austrian capital received perfect scores in four of the index’s five categories, but a lack of major sporting events contributed to its lower tally of 93.5 out of 100 in the culture and environment category. (It is far from lacking in other forms of culture .) Three other European cities made the top five: Copenhagen, Zurich and Geneva. All three are notable for their modest population size, which tends to lead to lower crime rates and less crowded roads and public-transport systems. Two Canadian cities—Calgary and Vancouver—and four in Asia-Pacific—Melbourne, Sydney, Osaka and Auckland—complete the top ten (see map).
And at the bottom end we find:
War-torn Damascus remains rooted to the bottom of the table. The Syrian capital has been the least liveable city in the index since 2013, and scored just 30.7 in 2024. Its stability score of 20 is tied with Karachi as the lowest of all the cities surveyed. Kyiv also performs badly in this category, pushing it into the bottom ten cities on the index for the second year in a row. Tel Aviv shares the same poor stability rating, and its scores on infrastructure and on culture and environment dropped by 7.2 and 6.7 points respectively amid the war in Gaza. The Israeli city fell 20 places down the ranking to 112th, the biggest movement in this year’s survey.
To summerize, among the top 10 cities are:
4 from NW Europe;Vienna, Copenhagen, Zurich and Geneva
2 from Australia; Melbourne and Sydney
2 from Canada; Calgary and Vancouver
1 from New Zealand; Auckland
1 from Japan; Osaka
Looks like a lot of blue comets are about to hit Western Europe. Is that a seasonal thing?
