Vancouver ranks fourth highest in the world for quality of life
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Vancouver Sun
April 28, 2009
Vancouver has been ranked the top city in the Americas and the fourth best city
in the world in Mercer’s 2009 Quality of Living survey released Tuesday.
The survey conducted by a New York-based human resources company is intended to
be used by governments and multinational corporations that send employees on
international assignments. It covers 215 cities. It uses a point scoring index
with New York as its base city.
The survey gave the top five spots in the Americas to Canadian cities with
Toronto taking second place (15th worldwide), then Ottawa (16th), Montreal
(22nd) and Calgary (26th).
Seattle was ranked 50th in the Americas.
Vancouver also was tops when it came to comparing infrastructure in the
Americas, followed by Atlanta, Ga. Infrastructure rankings are based on
electricity supply, water availability, telephone and mail service, public
transport, traffic congestion and the range of international flights from local
airports.
When it comes to worldwide rankings, Vancouver shared fourth place with
Auckland, N.Z., behind Zurich — the top city — then Vienna and Geneva.
The least enticing city in the world was Baghdad.
Last year Vancouver also finished fourth in world rankings, a drop from 2006 and
2007 when it was ranked third.
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