Best lived cities

Following on my earlier West Coast / East Coast post, I was interested to see Mercer’s Quality-of-Living Report for global cities. Setting New York as 100.0 (Center of the Universe, remember?), it ranks a few US cities as better, including Honolulu (103.3), San Francisco (103.2), Boston (101.9), DC (100.4), Chicago (100.4), and Portland (100.3). Vancouver (107.7) ranked third worldwide, after Zurich and Geneva. Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, and Calgary all ranked above the highest-ranked US cities.

OK, ratings suck. But I would happily live in any of the cities listed in the top 51, there.

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3 Comments

  1. M.
    Posted 4/22/2006 at 11:28 pm | Permalink

    Vancouver over San Francisco, yes – but Calgary? eh?

  2. Posted 4/23/2006 at 3:23 am | Permalink

    They are clearly apologetic about the high zzz factor of their “high quality” cities. Zzzzurich and Geneva?

  3. richard
    Posted 6/20/2006 at 10:47 pm | Permalink

    American is a country for rich people
    ——–very bad! THE WHOLE WORLD IS CHANGING TO THAT WAY!!

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