Obvious solution: Take transit planning out of the hands of city council.
(Never gonna happen.)
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Here are the top 10 most liveable cities of 2016 (Economist Intelligence Unit)
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Obvious solution: Take transit planning out of the hands of city council.
(Never gonna happen.)
These rankings are so stupid. As much as I understand australian and scandinavian cities being at the top, I don't understand how you can put vancouver or calgary so high. Who in his right mind would want to live in calgary ? And Vancouver is so expensive no one can afford to live there anyways lol
LOL Toronto is the most diverse city on Earth.
Don't forget Toronto, going through a wave of gentrification.
1.21Gigawatts
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Where did you work?
As a Montreal resident, the city has been in decline for a long time. The infrastructure is crumbling, everyone is corrupt to the core and the economy is slowly going down.
The only thing pretty much left intact is the culture. Montreal is lots of fun.
EstoyBlackWaldo
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Same, but its worth the price. You own or rent?
Sir Abacus
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Someone has never actually tried to drive in Adelaide.
A city of 1.25 million with nothing but surface streets in a grid pattern. I never want to drive in that city ever again. It's not even like suburban Boston where there's a main street where can at least cruise down a two lane highway at 40mph. You just start, stop, start, stop every quarter of a mile. Takes you 40 minutes to go 10 miles.
Also Toronto traffic is like one of the worst (if not the worst) in North America. With infrastructure that hasn't been improved on since the fucking 60's. Let's not even talk about how stunted our transit system is.
This alone makes you want to kill yourself.
4th most liveable city my ass.
This alone makes you want to kill yourself.
4th most liveable city my ass.
1.21Gigawatts
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List is for people with helicopters.
crimzonflame
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lol is this a joke? You think we all Jamacian, when nuff man are Trini's
Bajans, Grenadians and a hole heap of Haitians
Guyanese and all of the West Indies combined
To make the T dot O dot, one of a kind
Rapscallion74
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Ummm, Vancouver and Toronto are definitely not "homogeneously white".
Over 51% of the population of Toronto was born outside of Canada, or so I last heard.
Jezbollah
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Pancake Mix
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Dubai/German ERP implementation project (and no not SAP) that started in Dubai and I ended up around Germany. Love my job i see so many places.
Yeah unfortunately those desirable places are in high demand. Therefore, costs of living in those areas are higher as a result
Yeah unfortunately those desirable places are in high demand. Therefore, costs of living in those areas are higher as a result
It's also doesn't help when multi-million dollar investors drive the price point of even the most affordable neighbourhoods through the fucking roof.
Basically Vancouver and Toronto.
mullet2000
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Imp the Dimp
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Been to Vienna and it was unaffordable. Laughable list.
Australia has the third highest minimum wage in the world based on a PPP measure (which accounts for domestic inflation and should reflect actual purchasing power)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_minimum_wages_by_country
Watch it continue to go up though. My friends from Hong Kong, London, New York, Tokyo, San Francisco, Singapore, tons and tons of other high-demand places laugh at how cheap it is to live in Vancouver/Toronto lol. Vancouver will probably get a lot more expensive just because it is geographically locked to a much smaller land much like the likes of Hong Kong.
SecretMoblin
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indeed
arts&crafts
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what really? You cant find a 1 bedroom in Toronto for that much (in the core) I am sure you can get much cheaper the further north, east or west you go. I pay $1200 for the master bedroom in a 2 bedroom apartment in the financial district. :*(
names2hard4you
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Lol nope. I can vouch for Toronto at least, city is very culturally rich. You meet all kinds of people from every corner of the world here.
quackamole
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Vancouver is liveable? If you are rich sure.
d'oh, tired
Napalm_Frank
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Helsinki?
umop_3pisdn
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Is Vancouver's inclusion taking into consideration the cardboard box you'll be living in there.
You can get scholarships and stipends of about $20,000 annually I think.
names2hard4you
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Thereitis.gif and all that.
I consider myself pretty lucky. In Toronto, Uptown with easy access to public transit, I live in a unit apartment with everything included, 2 bedrooms, living room, porch, parking spot and front yard for $1250 per month. Add to that that we don't use cable, have an unlimited internet connection (which costs $90) and it isn't TOO bad. If you think this is expensive, you should see others I know.
Of course I'm not including groceries in here, or the monthly cost of public transit because that is when everything goes down the drain lol.
LT Snoshado
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Wages are higher to accomodate for this. I've got a friend in Perth working as a barista who makes $20/hr+ and rents a two bedroom house for $1,600/mo.
I assume international student tuition is high though?
Shameless advertising, but the fourth most livable city in the world is having a GAF meetup tonight.
We may be 4th but we're 1st in GAF meetups.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1260663
All these people in here complaining about Toronto should stop by. We complain about Toronto at the meetups already
We may be 4th but we're 1st in GAF meetups.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1260663
All these people in here complaining about Toronto should stop by. We complain about Toronto at the meetups already
thezerofire
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felt the exact same when I was there. We were like the only people in a bar at like 9 on a thurday, it was bizarre. Was a little bit better on friday but not a whole lot, still felt very empty
thezerofire
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Why shouldn't it be a contributing factor? A lot of people like going out at night
Whenever blogTO posts photosets from the '60s, '70s, or '80s, you always have the same old people posting comments about "how much better" Toronto was back then.
Which is code for "white".
Toronto's the most diverse city in the world. Vancouver is pretty up there too.
Poor Lagos. Things must be pretty rock bottom if you're considered even less stable than Damascus in 2016.Here's the actual rankings.
Don't know about post-grad but for undergrad it's about $25,000 per year for international students.
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