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Toronto world's 'fifth most liveable' city

Vancouver tops Economist magazine's survey

Aug 23, 2007 01:08 PM

Canadian Press

LONDON ? Vancouver has been selected as the world's most ``liveable city" and Toronto the fifth most liveable in a survey of 132 cities by the Economist magazine.

The Economist Intelligence Unit says Vancouver was chosen number-one due to a low crime rate, little threat from instability or terrorism and a highly developed transport and communications infrastructure.

Vancouver scored a liveability index of 1.3 per cent, with zero per cent indicating exceptional and 100 per cent indicating intolerable.

It's the fifth straight time Vancouver has garnered the honour.

The list published on the Economist.com website shows four Australian cities ? Melbourne, Perth, Adelaide and Sydney ? in the top 10, which also included Vienna, Copenhagen, Geneva and Zurich.

The magazine says traffic and crime rates caused such cities as New York, Tokyo, London, Hong Kong and Paris to score lower.

Large centres like London and New York also lost marks by fears of terror attacks.

Algiers was the least liveable city on the list.

http://www.thestar.com/News/article/249176

considering Toronto's traffic and crime (or is it just news???) i must say i am a bit surprised it is 5th.

Congrts to Vancouver though... I always heard it's a very good city.

Toronto has one of the lowest per capita crime rates in North America. That doesn't mean that the media doesn't freak out when an innocent person is killed. We are a city of 3 million with a few more million people in the surrounding suburbs.

For example, Toronto has a substantively lower crime rate than Vancouver. Vancouver's crime rate is relatively high for Canada. Vancouver typically has about 40 something murders per year while Toronto has 50 something (or rarely 60 something). Toronto is, however, significantly larger than Vancouver (about six times larger). That gives Vancouver the 4th highest highest murder rate amount cities with populations over 500,000.

I've always wanted to live in Vancouver. It seems like such a nice place. But, Toronto is good enough for me. Can't complain when you're living in one of the top 5 most livable cities on the planet.

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