Toronto is the world’s eighth most livable city (if you don’t count Vancouver)
As the news cycle slows for the summer, reporters are leaning heavily on a pair of old standbys: polls and lists (a close cousin to polls). On that note, the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) recently ranked the world’s top cities in a livability survey, and Toronto came in a middling eighth, losing points for sprawl and limited “cultural assets.” Despite their city falling several places from its spot in previous livability rankings, Torontonians may not want to start with the usual self-deprecation—even the surveyors admitted the whole exercise was weird. Previously, the survey used 30 weighted indicators in five broad areas, including categories like infrastructure and culture. This year, the unit decided to shake things up by considering spatial qualities like isolation, pollution and sprawl instead, but they say the new features “may not have been applied in quite the right way” (for instance, pollution-plagued Hong Kong came in first). Plus, Vancouver wasn’t even considered, which is odd considering it usually scores well. If this list doesn’t help Toronto compare itself to its West Coast rival, then, really, what good is it? [The Economist]
“hey we’re gonna tell you to not be self-deprecating but we’re still gonna do it anyways”
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by the way, not including vancouver is basically a testament to that very few would live there by choice.
Vancouver is too expensive in housing.
Toronto is too expensive in transport. The place is big and public transport is expensive (compared with New York City, Paris, Montreal….). Hostile to pesdestrian, too big to walk to scatttered destinations, weather extreme to tolerate, unsafe, hit by cars, no public washrooms…..
These surveys are always biased and “it depends on how much money you make” and where you come from in order to say what is “livable” in my opinion!
Toronto has many great things, more enjoyable if you live in one of the beautiful neighbourhoods, close to subway or bike paths and don’t have to commute!
excluded vancouver. thats kinda funny…
HK comes first?
That’s really hurt the credibility.
Think of HK, comes with small and very expensive housing, pollution, not good weather….