B.C. city takes top ranking for fifth year in a row in Economist magazine survey
Last Updated: Thursday, August 23, 2007 | 3:35 PM ET
Vancouver has been ranked the best place to live in the world for the fifth year in a row in a survey by the Economist magazine, while Toronto took fifth place out of 132 cities.
The two Canadian cities rank among the top five because they have low crime rates, little threat from instability or terrorism, and a highly developed transport and communications infrastructure, says the survey by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU).
Vancouver scored a livability index of 1.3 per cent, with zero indicating exceptional quality of living and 100 indicating life there is intolerable or severely restricted.
http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2007/08/23/bc-vancouver.html
http://economist.com/markets/rankings/displaystory.cfm?story_id=8908454&CFID=16415879&CFTOKEN=94552766
[Ottawa, Calgary & Montreal also made the top 25 -- NSay]
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