http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4306936.stm TOP TEN Vancouver Melbourne Vienna Geneva Perth Adelaide Sydney Zurich Toronto Calgary ---- Cool, anyone from Vancouver here?! Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
Cities, YUK!! Polluted hellholes of congested traffic and noise. Angry, stressed people at every turn. Wouldn't live in any of them. I've lived in Melbourne and it's way too cold in winter. What must Vancouver be like? Some kind of exquisite torture? Perth would be O.K, wide open spaces, awesome climate, brilliant beaches.
Cities - full of people to meet and see, street musicians, cafes, secret gathering places, word to mouth events. Cities - concert halls, operas, theaters, art galleries, museums and graffiti art. Cities - train and bus stations and airports to take you wherever you wish. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! I like cities, I like forests and fields. Both have their charm. It's great!
I know nothing about Vancouver aside from the fact that it looks absolutely gorgeous. I definitely wouldn't mind spending some time there just for that alone. Not surprising that there are no American cities on that top 10 list.
Vancouver, well,hmm, must be the frosty air. Yes, Ashura, no surprise indeed. I wonder if one ever made it on the list ? Yay! Sydney's on. We seriously got lucky. we need to improve our transport system...
I am from Vancouver Island -- right across the Strait of Georgia from Vancouver city. It may be the top place to live in the world, but it's very expensive to live there (especially if you're trying to purchase property). Going to Vancouver tomorrow, actually. It's a 1.5 hour ferry ride, and I'm going to see a concert with a friend of mine who lives in Richmond (just south of Vancouver).
yes there is a person here from Vancouever...I am not sure which member it was thou... and no I am not talking about Tiassa (he's in Seattle) ...and its not just "Idle Mind" who is from Vancouever...someone else too
Vancouver rarely has extended periods where the temperature is below zero, and it gets only a few brief snowfalls per year, on average. A cold temperature for Vancouver will be something on the order of minus 10 degrees Celsius, and it doesn't happen all that frequently. Even in the dead of winter, the temperature during the day is usually one or two degrees above freezing. It's even more mild over on the island here. *edit* I remember TruthSeeker was thinking of moving to Vancouver -- I'm not sure if he made the move or not. If he hasn't moved he lives in Victoria, which is on Vancouver Island here.
Mild, you call that mild? Yikes! Where I am, the average winter max. is 16C which means we have cold days of 11 or 12 C, way too cold. We get frosts, no snow, ever.
Of course it's mild for the inhabitants there. Cold and hot is relative. People froze to death in Brazil when it got +10C some years ago, in Latvia I replace my t-shirt with a long sleeve. We are now having a really warm winter at +0C, last year at the same time we had -30C or something.
Yeah, cold and hot is relative, I'm a snake, I love temperatures in the 30-42C range. Most of my friends look at me strangely when I reach for a jumper at 20C My threshold for cold is about 17C, less than that and I get cranky.
By mild I meant that we don't have extremes -- the temperature fluctuates minimally between summer and winter (least difference in all of Canada, I've read). The only thing we get consistently is rain.
European cities are visually far better environments than North American cities...generally. Moderate sized cities are far more livable than large ones. So, I would not include any large NA city on a top list. Toronto is a horrible place to live...expensive, crowded, polluted, ugly, etc. An ideal city would be about 500,000 people, no tall buildings, traditional architecture, cobblestone streets, buried power and telephone lines, all electric transportation....lots of mature trees. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
I lived in Calgary and I've been to Vancouver a few times. Both are very nice, but expensive. Calgary was ideal for me because it's only an hour away from the Rocky Mountains, great skiing in the winter and great hiking in the summer.
