the art of living well—and now that restaurants and museums in the Austrian capital have reopened, it is once again the perfect place to practise the art. A new, our sister company, agrees. For the third time in the past five years, Vienna has come top of theranking. The city offers plenty of opportunities for culture and entertainment, as well as good infrastructure and overall stability.
Originally designed as a tool to help companies assign hardship allowances as part of expatriates’ relocation packages, theindex rates living conditions in 172 cities based on more than 30 factors. These are grouped into five categories: stability, health care, culture and environment, education and infrastructure.
A partial return to normality is not confined to western Europe. Three Canadian cities have moved into the top ten, while New York, Los Angeles and Washington, DC have all improved compared with last year. According to, which tracks travel, recreation and office use, activity in America and Canada is now at around nine-tenths of pre-pandemic levels. Global activity is only around one-sixth lower than before the virus emerged.
For some cities to rise, others must fall. Every city in China has slipped down the rankings, and cities in island nations with strong border controls that scored wellare suffering now. Auckland came top last year, with few covid cases and even fewer restrictions. But in March, when the survey was conducted, the highly contagious Omicron strain caused a spike in cases in New Zealand—and the city dropped 33 places.
correspondent had to abandon the survey when fighting broke out. Moscow and St Petersburg have dropped 15 and 13 places to 80th and 88th, as hundreds of
Is that a blue circle for Shanghai? Erm, no. Lived there for a decade and it's a cesspit now. Precarious existence under the CCP, that's hardly livable. A few trains and a subway doesn't make it better than a Western alternative.
Why do you think the economic migrants head this way...its OK though they'll soon ruin it for us
I can agree with this
Western propaganda,not worth a read.
Another survey biased towards western countries. I think many non western countries and cities are more fun and liveable than the depressed, violent, and cold western cities, if the non whites are allowed to define what is liveable.
No. they're in a war!
To be fair the criteria is a bit biased towards western Europe. Getting down votes for humidity puts some lead in many saddles
Only if you have white skin.
The only cities the whole planet wants to live in are in our free, democratic societies.
There's plenty of people living much more comfortably outside Western Europe lol.
Unsurprisingly. Bastions of civilisation elsewhere crumbling into the moronic inferno.
BRICS countries still lagging behind despite the GDP and International Business improvements.
Looks like Calgary and Vancouver snuck in there
those colors are backwards
why California isn't yellow?
Racist vienna.very liveable.
New Zealand and West Australia capitals are just ‘liveable ’? Get out of here.
Exploiting the colonies for centuries finally paying off 😬
Yes Europe is cool 😎
It probably depends a lot on who is trying to live there.
Just come out and call them Most Expensive
Thank you Economist for sharing, is there any possibility on sharing what metric was used for the data?
Yes, lol
Is anyone surprised?
Especially in the winters … what a joke 😂😂😂
America falling behind.
Liveable is a subjective word.
Is this a racist article, TheEconomist
who knew
ecoli ncovi
Did you calculate the pollution index in each of them? And the cost of local transport?
Any report that unabashedly puts Athens on the liveable or very liveable end has simply not lived in Athens. I am talking about central Athens not suburbs!!!
close to the bottom end but not quite there.
How is the EU 'most liveable' with spiralling upwards cost of living ... this post aged before it was released!
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I would invert the Key on this map. Chicago, New York and LA are uninhabitable.
3 !! Keep it up yyc
Click bait for subscriptions
Sydney being under water might affect how liveable people consider it
2nd
fabimague
I don't know - there's a paywall.
Same with New Zealand!
The environment is improved in very city indeed.
everywhere in china is a shithole
Like Europe 100 years ago, won't it be fun when the tables turn again and Europe has had all it's welfare reforms reversed for profiteering Asian trillionaires
Well no shit.
Hey the Economist: health restrictions are a minus in your ranking? Tell us how “liveable” a city is when people die from covid
So basically USA, Europe, Austrilia, Japan are most liveable, elsewhere is shit. Interesting.
Where can I get the full list?
I'm from a northern city in México, and I'm not a subscriber of yours so I can't read the full article. Dear can you tell me how close are we ranked from Vienna? 😒
I have to sign up just read the article fuck that
looks racist 🤔🤔🤔
This kind of survey is bullshit
Wonder why Perth is Australia got Liveable rather than Most Liveable… ive been there and its an amazing city , safe, clean, accessible .. maybe because its remote 🤷🏼♂️
Lol. Cities which streets coveted in garbage and pee are the most livable?
First include my city
Not living.
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