Best Place to Live

Monday 03 March 08

The Econimist Intelligence Unit (EIU) has found that Vancouver is the world's best place to live. The EIU ranked 127 cities in terms of personal risk, infrastructure and the availability of goods and services. All the best cities to live in are in Canada, Australia and Western Europe, below you can see the Top Ten:

• Vancouver

• Melbourne
• Vienna
• Geneva
• Perth
• Adelaide
• Sydney
• Zurich
• Toronto
• Calgary

In Latin America, "no city manages to present ideal living conditions, neither do any fall into the category where extreme difficulties are faced", the EIU said.

Montevideo in Uruguay, Santiago in Chile and Buenos Aires in Argentina offer the region's best conditions. Bogota in Colombia and Caracas in Venezuela score the least favourably.

Africa and the Middle East have all the bottom ten cities to live in, with the EIU citing concerns about terror attacks, and economic and political instability. Here is the bottom ten cities:

• Tehran
• Douala
• Harare
• Abidjan
• Phnom Penh
• Lagos
• Karachi
• Dhaka
• Algiers
• Port Moresby

What do you think this says about the world we live in, it is a fair world? And where do you think Belfast and Northern Ireland is on the list? WIMPS Forum

(Source: BBC)