Vienna in Austria has topped the rankings of The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) 2022 Global Liveability Index, gaining back its previous position from 2019 and 2018, mostly for its stability and good infrastructure, supported by good healthcare and plenty of opportunities for culture and entertainment. Western European and Canadian cities dominated the top positions with Copenhagen, Denmark in second place and Zurich, Switzerland, and Calgary, Canada in third place. Adding 33 new cities to the survey, one-third of which are in China, bringing the total up to 172 cities, the classification excluded this year the city of Kyiv, due to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Surprised by Frankfurt am Main. Has it improved so much?
I am sure they are lovely (I’ve visited the first 2 of them a while ago now) but you need to be quite rich to live in them. I always assume they do not factor in how good or bad it is for people on a low or medium wage.
No Warsaw 🙁
Also most unaffordable. Unless you belong to the richest 1% in Europe, you’re not buying a property in Zurich.
To be liveable, a city, apparently can’t be liveable for most of people
Why won’t they ever link to the full study
The downside of these lists is always that they exclude so many cities. There are tons of wildly pleasant cities in the Netherlands and then Amsterdam is number 9 on this list and the highest Dutch one
I bloody love Amsterdam, I live there and wouldn’t want to live anywhere see in the Netherlands, but I reckon that in terms of liveability it would be outranked by quite a few Dutch cities.
They’re liveable if you’re rich.
Though most places are pretty liveable if you’re rich, so I don’t really see the point.
Shouldn’t a liveable city be affordable for its people?
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Vienna in Austria has topped the rankings of The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) 2022 Global Liveability Index, gaining back its previous position from 2019 and 2018, mostly for its stability and good infrastructure, supported by good healthcare and plenty of opportunities for culture and entertainment. Western European and Canadian cities dominated the top positions with Copenhagen, Denmark in second place and Zurich, Switzerland, and Calgary, Canada in third place. Adding 33 new cities to the survey, one-third of which are in China, bringing the total up to 172 cities, the classification excluded this year the city of Kyiv, due to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Surprised by Frankfurt am Main. Has it improved so much?
I am sure they are lovely (I’ve visited the first 2 of them a while ago now) but you need to be quite rich to live in them. I always assume they do not factor in how good or bad it is for people on a low or medium wage.
No Warsaw 🙁
Also most unaffordable. Unless you belong to the richest 1% in Europe, you’re not buying a property in Zurich.
To be liveable, a city, apparently can’t be liveable for most of people
Why won’t they ever link to the full study
The downside of these lists is always that they exclude so many cities. There are tons of wildly pleasant cities in the Netherlands and then Amsterdam is number 9 on this list and the highest Dutch one
I bloody love Amsterdam, I live there and wouldn’t want to live anywhere see in the Netherlands, but I reckon that in terms of liveability it would be outranked by quite a few Dutch cities.
They’re liveable if you’re rich.
Though most places are pretty liveable if you’re rich, so I don’t really see the point.
Shouldn’t a liveable city be affordable for its people?