Showing posts with label Vienna. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vienna. Show all posts
Monday, December 31, 2012
Another indication of America's problems
A list is just out, ranking the best and worst cities of the world, based either on "Quality of Living", the second on "Infrastructure ranking."
Not one US city ranks in the top ten of either:
Worldwide top 50 cities: Quality of living ranking
Worldwide top 50 cities: Infrastructure ranking
Repeat after me: "WE'RE NUMBER ONE!"
Original article: Mercer's 2012 Quality of Living ranking highlights - Global
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Not one American city is list of "top ten"
The consulting group Mercer took a survey of the "Top 10 Cities in Qualty of Life" and not one is in the United States. "Vienna's excellent infrastructure, safe streets and good public health service make it the nicest place to live in the world, consulting group Mercer said in a global survey which put Baghdad firmly in last place. German and Swiss cities also performed especially well in the quality of living rankings, with Zurich, Munich, Duesseldorf, Frankfurt, Geneva and Bern in the top 10." Let's see--excellent infrastructure, safe streets and good public health service. Well, naturally, if you look at THOSE things, American cities will never rank well.
Lesson, anyone? Link: http://shine.yahoo.com/healthy-living/survey-says-the-best-place-to-live-is---.html
Thursday, May 27, 2010
US Number 1?
Once again, not so much.
For the second year it has been named the world's best place to live, according to a report released Wednesday.
A company named Mercer, a global outsourcing and investment consultancy produces the annual "Worldwide Quality of Living Survey" and just released their latest edition.
European cities take seven of the top 10 spots for quality of life, thanks to their relative safety, political stability and cultural offerings. As for the U.S., Honolulu, at No. 31, has the best quality-of-life record and the continental U.S. makes its first appearance on the list at 32, with San Francisco tying Adelaide, Australia. Boston came in at No. 37, Chicago and Washington, D.C. tied for 45th place, and New York ranked 49. Philadelphia and Dallas were ranked for the first time this year, landing spots 55 and 61 on the list, respectively.
European cities take seven of the top 10 spots for quality of life, thanks to their relative safety, political stability and cultural offerings. As for the U.S., Honolulu, at No. 31, has the best quality-of-life record and the continental U.S. makes its first appearance on the list at 32, with San Francisco tying Adelaide, Australia. Boston came in at No. 37, Chicago and Washington, D.C. tied for 45th place, and New York ranked 49. Philadelphia and Dallas were ranked for the first time this year, landing spots 55 and 61 on the list, respectively.
Here's a silver lining for us, anyway:
Although the U.S. didn't do poorly by Mercer's standards--most American cities on the list had index scores above 100--weaker safety records kept them from competing with lower-crime Western European capitals.
But guns come 'round to bite us in the butt again:
"In the U.S., crime is typically more prevalent, and the availability of handguns is an issue," says Powers. "Many of the locations in Canada and Switzerland have a little more of social net that diminishes that kind of crime."
So we suck at health care--ranked 37th, internationally, behind Rush "Porkulus" Limbaugh's revered Costa Rica, for pity's sake and now we no way have any of the best places to live on the planet, according to this ranking.
We suck at mass transit--it's nearly non-existent here. We suck at crime, violence and the prevalence of guns.
But hey, we're number one at war, eh? And national defense spending. We blow everyone out of the water with that.
No pun intended.
This isn't merely to complain or just to put down the US. This is to say there are things we could, can and should improve on, that's all.
And we should get to work, all of us, together on them, as one, instead of splintered into our own little groups, fighting against one another.
Link to original post:
http://realestate.yahoo.com/promo/worlds-best-places-to-live
For the second year it has been named the world's best place to live, according to a report released Wednesday.
A company named Mercer, a global outsourcing and investment consultancy produces the annual "Worldwide Quality of Living Survey" and just released their latest edition.
European cities take seven of the top 10 spots for quality of life, thanks to their relative safety, political stability and cultural offerings. As for the U.S., Honolulu, at No. 31, has the best quality-of-life record and the continental U.S. makes its first appearance on the list at 32, with San Francisco tying Adelaide, Australia. Boston came in at No. 37, Chicago and Washington, D.C. tied for 45th place, and New York ranked 49. Philadelphia and Dallas were ranked for the first time this year, landing spots 55 and 61 on the list, respectively.
European cities take seven of the top 10 spots for quality of life, thanks to their relative safety, political stability and cultural offerings. As for the U.S., Honolulu, at No. 31, has the best quality-of-life record and the continental U.S. makes its first appearance on the list at 32, with San Francisco tying Adelaide, Australia. Boston came in at No. 37, Chicago and Washington, D.C. tied for 45th place, and New York ranked 49. Philadelphia and Dallas were ranked for the first time this year, landing spots 55 and 61 on the list, respectively.
Here's a silver lining for us, anyway:
Although the U.S. didn't do poorly by Mercer's standards--most American cities on the list had index scores above 100--weaker safety records kept them from competing with lower-crime Western European capitals.
But guns come 'round to bite us in the butt again:
"In the U.S., crime is typically more prevalent, and the availability of handguns is an issue," says Powers. "Many of the locations in Canada and Switzerland have a little more of social net that diminishes that kind of crime."
So we suck at health care--ranked 37th, internationally, behind Rush "Porkulus" Limbaugh's revered Costa Rica, for pity's sake and now we no way have any of the best places to live on the planet, according to this ranking.
We suck at mass transit--it's nearly non-existent here. We suck at crime, violence and the prevalence of guns.
But hey, we're number one at war, eh? And national defense spending. We blow everyone out of the water with that.
No pun intended.
This isn't merely to complain or just to put down the US. This is to say there are things we could, can and should improve on, that's all.
And we should get to work, all of us, together on them, as one, instead of splintered into our own little groups, fighting against one another.
Link to original post:
http://realestate.yahoo.com/promo/worlds-best-places-to-live
Friday, February 12, 2010
US shut out of "Top 10 Cities" ranking
US "the best"?
The Economist Intelligence Unit doesn't think so.
Their survey "ranked 140 cities on 30 factors such as healthcare, culture and environment, and education and personal safety, using research involving resident experts and its own analysts" and decided the US doesn't have one city in the top ten.
Ouch.
Following is a list of the top 10 most liveable cities as ranked by The Economist:
1. Vancouver, Canada
2. Vienna, Austria
3. Melbourne, Australia
4. Toronto, Canada
5. Calgary, Canada
6. Helsinki, Finland
7. Sydney, Australia
8. Perth, Australia
9. Adelaide, Australia
10. Auckland, New Zealand
Neighbor Canada, however (you know the one--"Socialist Canada", the one with mass transit and national health care for all?) has 3 cities in the "top ten."
More ouch.
Between this and health care (we rank 37th in mortality rates, internationally, folks), we just keep getting put in our place, so to speak, don't we? So much for that "we're number one!" crap, huh?
The good news?
We didn't have any cities in the "bottom 10", either.
Thank goodness for that silver lining.
The Economist Intelligence Unit doesn't think so.
Their survey "ranked 140 cities on 30 factors such as healthcare, culture and environment, and education and personal safety, using research involving resident experts and its own analysts" and decided the US doesn't have one city in the top ten.
Ouch.
Following is a list of the top 10 most liveable cities as ranked by The Economist:
1. Vancouver, Canada
2. Vienna, Austria
3. Melbourne, Australia
4. Toronto, Canada
5. Calgary, Canada
6. Helsinki, Finland
7. Sydney, Australia
8. Perth, Australia
9. Adelaide, Australia
10. Auckland, New Zealand
Neighbor Canada, however (you know the one--"Socialist Canada", the one with mass transit and national health care for all?) has 3 cities in the "top ten."
More ouch.
Between this and health care (we rank 37th in mortality rates, internationally, folks), we just keep getting put in our place, so to speak, don't we? So much for that "we're number one!" crap, huh?
The good news?
We didn't have any cities in the "bottom 10", either.
Thank goodness for that silver lining.
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