by Myer Lipschitz
26. June 2009 05:27
I have since moving to Melbourne last year been telling friends, family and those attending our Australian immigration seminars that Melbourne is the best city in the world only to be proven a liar by a recent survey that ranked us as the third most liveable city in the world.
The survey was conducted by the economist intelligence unit's liveability poll which ranked cities on five factors: healthcare, stability, culture and environment, education and infrastructure. Melbourne ranked the highest of any Australian city coming third in the poll. 140 cities were scrutinized for their liveability and Australian cities held three of the top 10 spots. Perth was equal fifth with Calgary in Canada, Sydney shared 9th place with Zürich in Switzerland and Adelaide was in 11th place and Brisbane 16th in the list.
The only two cities considered more "liveable" then Melbourne were Vancouver in Canada and Vienna is in 2nd place followed by Melbourne, Toronto, Perth, Calgary, Helsinki and Geneva. Clearly weather was not a major consideration in the survey otherwise Melbourne would have leapfrogged above Vancouver and Vienna!
Some of our clients in South Africa might be interested to read that Johannesburg was 92nd and at the very bottom rung of the ladder is Harare.
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