The worlds best places to live, 2009 top 30.

[Old Hippie]

There are five species of deer in the forest and we regularly get them all in the garden.

I dyslexically interpreted that as "five species of beer."

Thinking, "My kinda place!"

[Ancienne Alliance]

I dyslexically interpreted that as "five species of beer."

Thinking, "My kinda place!"

:beer:

[walkerk]

The best places to live have no nosy survey takers coming around. Thus, they never show up on these reports.

[###KILTEDKIWI###]

Give this up, for the noise and the pollution and the privilege of living with millions of strangers - I think not.

I agree with this, I live in Auckland currently, 4th best (tied), and I don't like it mainly due to population, everytime I go somewhere, there are tens if not hundreds of others there, we (My young family) are currently looking to relocate back to my home province of Southland (Invercargill), or Otago (Dunedin), sure I might sacrifice the salary I have, but at the end of the day, its only money, and I will have more time with them and not be crowded by others...(which I hate...)

To put this into perspective, NZ has a population of just over 4 million, and nearly 1.3 million of that lot live in JAFAtown (Auckland).

[Raphael]

Vancouver, Canada is 4th - tie with Auckland, NZ is no surprise. But Toronto placed 15th? Come on, something is wrong here!

[Colin]

Look at that, we're tied for 4th with Auckland

[bowser]

I have visited or lived in eveyone of the European cities listed and with the exception of Oslo wouldnt want to live in anyone of them.
But then out of choice a major city would never be on my list of best places to live, the only reason Oslo qualifies is that it is a small city and surrounded by county to escape to.

[cessna152towser]

I am not surprised that Vancouver tied for 4th and Toronto placed 15th, if I ever left Scotland, Canada would be my number one choice.
There seemed to a lot of places selected from continental Europe, especially Germany, and quite a few from the antipodes as well, of which Sydney was a surprise inclusion as I'd often heard it associated with high crime rates.
Disappointed neither Glasgow nor Edinburgh made it to the top 30.
One has to wonder how objective their research was.

[NewGuise]

:beer:

Flanders is good beer country - you and the Lady should come down from the mountains to Lille next June when I'm there. Or we could head up to Brussels, #14 on that list - I know some fine pubs...

[Mr. Kilt]

Funny how the three Canadian cities listed are also the three most expensive places in the country to live. We left Calgary nearly 2 years ago due to the traffic congestion, cost of living, crime, etc. We much prefer life in a small town in the middle of nowhere.