Tokyo 3rd most livable city
According to Monocle magazine Tokyo is ranked as the third most livable city in the world. The magazine ranked the “World’s Most Livable Cities (Quality Of Life)” using the following criteria:
- Safety / low crime
- International connectivity
- Climate
- Quality of architecture
- Public transportation
- Tolerance of others
- Environmental issues and access to nature
- Urban design
- Business conditions
- “Pro-active policy developments” and
- Medical care
Their entire Top ten “most livable cities” are:
- Zürich, Switzerland
- Copenhagen, Denmark
- Tokyo, Japan
- Munich, Germany
- Helsinki, Finland
- Stockholm, Sweden
- Vienna, Austria
- Paris, France
- Melbourne, Australia
- Berlin, Germany
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February 15th, 2010 at 9:40 am
If you can get over the high cost of living and the high population density Tokyo is actually a really nice place to live, plenty of parks, culture, history, it’s clean and safe and the people are super nice and polite.
February 15th, 2010 at 10:38 am
According to “The Economist”, it’s number 22:
http://store.eiu.com/product/475217632-sample.html
The top five are:
1. Vancouver, Canada
2. Vienna, Austria
3. Melbourne, Australia
4. Toronto, Canada
5. Calgary, Canada
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100212/lf_nm_life/us_cities_living
February 16th, 2010 at 9:56 am
@DM the rankings always seem to change depending on the criteria used
February 17th, 2010 at 10:43 am
Yeah. I guess it depends on what the study’s authors deem to be important.
Supposedly Vancouver is the most expensive city to own a house in:
http://www.zeenews.com/news599019.html
Last year it was the fourth most expensive place to live, relative to the mean income of the population (among English-speaking countries):
http://www.fcpp.org/publication.php/2573
Shrug. Different places have different charms, and as long as you’re not in a war zone it can’t be that bad.
February 20th, 2010 at 9:51 am
these rankings are always dominated by Canada, Australia, big first world countries that have small populations, lot so f natural resources and lots of space