My nice city

It seems I now live in the most liveabile city in the world.

That’s nice. And although the Economist, which did the study, explains how it categorizes the cities, you have to wonder just how arbatrary such rankings are. After all, different cities are more liveable than others depending on what one is looking for. If you’re looking to get out of the city each weekend, Vancouver is close to mountains and such, but the traffic is killer. Calgary might be better, but there’s less around. Toronto…. Where ya gonna go?

But then, if liveability depends on how many concerts you can get to, well you’ll have a whole other list of cities.

Which isn’t to debunk any ratings of cities, but to kind of emphasize the fact that the appeal of any city can depend on the person doing the rating. Of course, the Economist rates general attributes most people consider universally positive so it is objective. But I’d like it to compare the big cities with smaller more regional cities as well (although that would obviously be too much work for a publication that looks at the whole world).

Richard Florida has a book called Who’s Your City. I’m not sure if he considers this (he’s an urban planner), but his title seems to relate.

Just a thought