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#4071585 - 01/30/15 05:37 AM Toronto ranked the best city to live in the World  
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by the Economist.

Here's the article: EIU White Paper



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#4071587 - 01/30/15 05:45 AM Re: Toronto ranked the best city to live in the World [Re: Linebacker]  
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Not surprised about Toronto. Its a beautiful city. Very clean, friendly and nice.

I am surprised New York even made the list at all. Its expensive, dirty and people are not friendly. I know, that because I lived in it my whole life and Im trying to get out of it.

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#4071595 - 01/30/15 07:05 AM Re: Toronto ranked the best city to live in the World [Re: Linebacker]  
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Proudly lived in No. 19, and No. 21. Great cities.
Currenty living in No. 24 - not too shabby either - besides Big Brother up North being a bit of a control freak biggrin

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#4071614 - 01/30/15 10:14 AM Re: Toronto ranked the best city to live in the World [Re: Linebacker]  
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See, Vancouver used to get up near the top of those
lists, til it resulted in everybody coming here, and
now the house prices are so high we're knocked off
the list entirely. Also surprised to see LA on that
list, but not Seattle or Portland.

#4071622 - 01/30/15 10:31 AM Re: Toronto ranked the best city to live in the World [Re: Linebacker]  
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It wasn't due to people coming here to Vancouver. It was due to our government's idiotic policy of allowing unrestricted foreign access to the real estate market. Now we've got Chinese money flooding in to buy housing because the Chinese see buying land here as a safe investment as they can get their savings away from the Chinese government and into a tangible asset in a place that still has the Rule of Law. End result? Ridiculously over-priced housing market with absentee landlords so we have high rises in Yaletown that have zero percent occupancy on paper but 75% of the units are empty. Parts of Kerrisdale and Kits that used to have a vibrant, welcoming vibe to them where neighbourhood block parties on summer weekends were the norm are now practically ghost towns as the old character homes are bulldozed in favour of lot filler mega-houses that sit empty. Crime's up out in the eastern part of Metro Van in places like Surrey and PoCo as the working classes find that they're spending more and more of their income on housing, taxes, and transports but the governments don't care. The province is thrilled to have foreign money coming in. The municipalities in MV love the property taxes they get to charge on the inflated land valuations and, in areas like Kerrisdale, they don't have to provide as many services due to the large number of empty dwellings.

They really should put in a rule requiring owners to be residents at least 6 months plus a day each year or require them to open their property up for rental. Never happen though.


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#4071668 - 01/30/15 02:18 PM Re: Toronto ranked the best city to live in the World [Re: Linebacker]  
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DC, Chicago and LA are on the list; therefore it can be safely assumed that the study is botched.


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#4071669 - 01/30/15 02:21 PM Re: Toronto ranked the best city to live in the World [Re: Vertigo1]  
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Originally Posted By: Vertigo1
DC, Chicago and LA are on the list; therefore it can be safely assumed that the study is botched.


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#4071673 - 01/30/15 02:30 PM Re: Toronto ranked the best city to live in the World [Re: Vertigo1]  
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Originally Posted By: Vertigo1
DC, Chicago and LA are on the list; therefore it can be safely assumed that the study is botched.


And New York. Man if those are some of the world's best cities then they're all basically Gotham hell holes.


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#4071676 - 01/30/15 02:37 PM Re: Toronto ranked the best city to live in the World [Re: Linebacker]  
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The Index focuses on 50 cities (see box over the page for the full list and regional breakdown) selected by The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), based on factors such as regional representation and availability of data. Therefore, it should not be considered a comprehensive list of the worlds safest cities (ie, a city coming number 50 in the list does not make it the most perilous place to live in the world).


And that's that. Calling this "study" a "comprehensive list" is a little like calling the MLB finals "world series". neaner biggrin


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Toronto doesn't have the nickname of Fogtown for no reason, and it not because of a certain football game.


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I think they just gave the #1 spot to Toronto for having put up with RoFo for 4 years with relative grace wink


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#4071692 - 01/30/15 03:09 PM Re: Toronto ranked the best city to live in the World [Re: Linebacker]  
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Didn't they include climate in the study?
I would prefer a more warm mediterrain location.


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#4071704 - 01/30/15 03:23 PM Re: Toronto ranked the best city to live in the World [Re: Linebacker]  
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#4071712 - 01/30/15 03:46 PM Re: Toronto ranked the best city to live in the World [Re: Vertigo1]  
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Originally Posted By: Vertigo1
DC, Chicago and LA are on the list; therefore it can be safely assumed that the study is botched.


exactly, that was my first thoughts... I wouldn't live in any of those cities.


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#4071722 - 01/30/15 03:59 PM Re: Toronto ranked the best city to live in the World [Re: Linebacker]  
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Yeah it looks like the study just focused on the biggest cities for each country and compared them.

Still Toronto and Montreal are two great cities I've never been to but hope to visit sometime, heard nothing but good things about them from people who've been there (other than the Rob Ford circus).


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That list is about as meaningless as those "happiest countries in the world" lists that come out from time of time.


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Originally Posted By: Vertigo1
DC, Chicago and LA are on the list; therefore it can be safely assumed that the study is botched.


Three US Liberal #%&*$# holes that aren't fit to live in...two of the three I wouldn't visit after dark without Kevlar.


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I am proud to say I never lived in any of the cities on that list nor have I ever visited them.

Do I get a prize for a perfect score?

#4071787 - 01/30/15 05:59 PM Re: Toronto ranked the best city to live in the World [Re: Wallimiyama]  
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Originally Posted By: Wallimiyama
Originally Posted By: Vertigo1
DC, Chicago and LA are on the list; therefore it can be safely assumed that the study is botched.


Three US Liberal #%&*$# holes that aren't fit to live in...two of the three I wouldn't visit after dark without Kevlar.


You're going to get the thread moved... rolleyes


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The best cities as ranked by British accountants...

Montreal is about the only large Canadian city that's sort of world class, Toronto seems very grey and generic despite having its share of big city amenities.

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