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Originally Posted by indierockorgy
yeah, I was just in Switzerland and was in Vancouver last week, and I think it's pretty much a total joke that Vancouver ranks above any major Swiss city. Their transit's efficiency, the smoothness of the traffic, proximity of anything and everything important, ease of getting around, general beauty and livability, culture, politeness and friendliness of people, &c. completely outpace Vancouver and certainly Melbourne, among others. Granted, Swiss cities are prohibitively expensive, but not when taking into consideration how well Swiss jobs pay.
The list is nonsense, anyway.
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European cities will always have a big advantage - they weren't built for cars..they had the populations before cars - so public transit was a bigger need. North American cities were built around the car - Back in the 50's the attitudes of moving away from mass transit was thought to be the more progessive one. We were wrong and didn't learn anything from the European way. Also the population models back than prob didn't include immigration, which allowed populations in North America to greatly increase and put more cars on the road - and render a lot of roads to small for the volume.
I agree the list is nonense but you still can't go wrong with any of those cities - all great places to live - although Calgary is prob a heck of a lot cheaper than all of them.