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Originally Posted by Crawford
You may be right if that's the methodology, but the metric is stupid. It's pretty much designed to favor the most boring cities in the Anglosphere and a few Northern European countries.
Wealth gap, especially, should not be included.There is nothing inherently "better" about having a smaller wealth gap. % poverty or something would be a good metric, because a place can have a huge wealth gap but a well-off poor cohort, or a small wealth gap and a struggling poor cohort.
Median income would be even better, but they will never use that, because they want to promote the Adelaides of the world over places people actually want to live (the San Diegos of the world).
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Wow again with the trolling...
Are you seriously suggesting that Toronto, Sydney, Melbourne, Vienna, Vancouver, Helsinki and Auckland are more boring than San Diego?
And Perth, Adelaide and Calgary are at least on par.
Not to mention the cities just outside the top 10 which include Osaka, Stockholm, Montreal, Paris, Tokyo, Amsterdam, etc.
You don't know a fraction of what you pretend to know, especially not about cities and yet you continue to involve yourself in threads like these (which guarantees them a certain outcome).
San Diego is among the "Adelaides of the world"! And that is a compliment to both cities.
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Originally Posted by Crawford
I'm not speaking for you or for me, obviously our personal preferences aren't relevant. And you would really, honestly rather live in Moldova than in the U.S.? I'm guessing no.
My point is that people generally want to live somewhere like San Diego and not Calgary or Adelaide or wherever. If you personally think California is a "military state" with "conservative right wing politics" and all the rest, then I'd say your views are far from the norm.
People generally want pretty places, sunny places or economically/culturally dynamic places as their ideal towns. And, if they're working age, they want good jobs. These surveys are always ranking Helsinki or Canberra or whatever boring Anglosphere/Nordic cities over places where people actually want to live (places like Paris, or Venice, or Barcelona).
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And the ignorant continues...
First of all Paris is in the top 20 and Barcelona is in the top 30. And who wants to live in Venice?! The locals are abandoning it because it is becoming unliveable due to mass tourism and floodings.
Pretty sunny places with a good economy and dynamic cultural life? Dude that is Perth and Adelaide! Pretty with good economy and dynamic cultural life? That is Helsinki (and Zurich and Geneva etc). Good economy (and probably pretty and cultural too I dunno), that IS Calgary!
Moldova? Talk about "white" and unliveable. Just like Kiev which has fallen considerably on this index for obvious reasons...