The Economist ratings: Suck it Vancouver haters

posted August 14th, 2018 at 10:27 AM

In the latest world ratings for most livable cities, Calgary placed fourth, Vancouver was sixth, and Toronto ranked seventh. Every year, the research and analysis arm of the London-based publisher of the Economist magazine ranks 140 cities and scores them based on 30 different factors, boiled down to five categories: Stability (based on local rates of crime, terrorism and military unrest). Quality of local health care. Local culture and environment (everything from weather to quality of local restaurants). Quality of education. Quality of infrastructure (everything from transit to electrical grids and telecommunications networks). Vancouver scored a 95 in stability and a 92.9 in infrastructure, with a perfect score in the rest. Other noted cities and their rankings include: Paris: 19th, Hong Kong: 35th, London: 48th, and New York: 57th.

22 Comments

Nowhere In Your List

Aug 14, 2018 at 11:51am

Did I see anything about the cost of living.....

Incomplete

Aug 14, 2018 at 12:14pm

If the full scope of the money laundered through Van over the decades is ever revealed, that rating is going to be due for a revision.
And the people still suck.
As does the weather, one way or another, much of the time. You don't see firefighting teams from other countries (note the plural) helping to put out fires in London or New York for weeks at a time, now, do you?
And the prices are stupid. Multiple studies have concluded that. Top 5 in the most unaffordable places one the planet. Tops in North America.
You think all that doesn't degrade the quality of life? Dream on.

I would be skeptical...

Aug 14, 2018 at 12:18pm

... of people who allow magazines to tell them what to think of Vancouver!

Some Confession

Aug 14, 2018 at 12:28pm

There is a comments section in the article, there, bub.

@I would be skeptical

Aug 14, 2018 at 1:05pm

Right, because you would rather rely on anecdotes than on a respected publication.

@Nowhere In Your List

Aug 14, 2018 at 1:09pm

Read what the OP wrote - it is not his list - it was published in The Economist. You need to get a better, more high-paying job or, maybe, just maybe, work for yourself and pull yourself up by your own bootstraps.

@Incomplete

Aug 14, 2018 at 1:15pm

Are there wildfire teams in Vancouver? Check your facts; I don't think so. The article published relates to livability in various cities; not the issues (such as they purport to be) that you raise. I suspect that London, Hong Kong, and New York have had their own share of criminal activity; ya think?

Yawn.

Aug 14, 2018 at 1:48pm

Vancouver is still ranked 2nd or 3rd tier (middle beta or lower) when it comes to ranking in the Global City Index or the AT Kearny study. It's a picturesque backwater with high quality of life. It's not a world class city in the terms of business activity, arts and culture, human capital etc... One only has to spend a day and half in the city and see that.

Blandcouver

Aug 14, 2018 at 2:07pm

Interesting, it says nothing about the rain for and grey skies half the year. I find the climate for much of the year painfully depressing. Where's my quality of life? I'm enjoying sun while I can, oh wait it's time for our annual smoke season. Cough, cough!