Personally cities are the most crowded and loneliest places on earth. Small undeveloped villages have imo happier more content folk;)

probably true but villagers are very much self selected. its easier to leave a lot of these places than stay.

I've experienced alienation and isolation in cities, but on the other hand I grew up in a coveted rural part of the UK and it now feels like a retirement home for those who can arbitrage their metro area homes and live off fat pensions here. It's increasingly like suburbia down to the aesthetic of the houses, increased prevalence of out of town shopping and total car dependence to do anything. Folks from major cities and the South East fall in love with the idea of rural England from their holidays, then transform it into a copy of the suburbs that they fled from. Access to nature aside, it's pretty dull and has very few work and social opportunities so I can't wait to move back to the city personally.

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No sure I’d call it a Big City but of all the cities I’ve been to and that’s many, I’d say Copenhagen is the one I’d like to live, it’s no metropolis but it’s just incredible.

Munich is a great place to visit. Granted, I haven't lived there, but it's clean, friendly, multi-cultural and there's plenty to do. Oh, and the beer is tops.

I'm drawn to Dusseldorf myself

If it was 15 years ago I would of said Barcelona. It has everything and is still an amazing place today but the dynamics have changed.

What a place you can visit the beach in the morning and ski up in Andorra in the afternoon and do your banking lol

Santiago, Chile, is the same for beach in the morning, skiing in the afternoon. Gotta love that 🙏🏼💚

I think the UN will say that as I don’t think they really care that much about our “quality of life”. I don’t think a city can ever provide full quality due to noise and light pollution. We need nature..we need quiet..we need to dark in order to reset ..just my two cents anyway ;)

Bangkok is the best! super cheap and loads of opportunity!

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There are only 33 cities ranked “mega” in the world, even London doesn’t qualify and neither do most European capitals. Generally they are shithole Chinese & Indian with over 10m population.
My pick without a doubt however would be Buenos Aires..👍👍

Buenos Aires is lovely, always planned to go back but it's such a long way away!

Flew direct from BA to Auckland, New Zealand, now that was a long flight...

Flat Earthers claim the flight doesn't actually exist as it disproves their map, but I can assure them it does. It's bloody long and pretty scary if you consider there's no land mass anywhere near the flight path for like 13 hours, except Antarctica, which isn't an ideal place to land in an emergency! Haha.

Anyway yeah, BA is beautiful.💖

They say that Melbourne is supposedly the best city for quality of life, but having been there I suspect the only people that are voting for that city as No.1, are the ones that have never left it.

Just my 2p though.

Cheers BB 😊👍🍻

such different cities, melbourne is english and has its ass nicely tightened up. ba is an italian/spanish romance.

I'd advise you don't call any Melburnian "English". They're not too keen on us Brits.

Modern Argentina as a whole is a melting pot of cultures, German being one, (for various unscrupulous reasons).

But yes I agree, Buenos Aires is the so called 'Paris' of South America. The European influence is everywhere.

Funnily enough I saw a Bulldog being walked in a park in BA. 😂

Cheers BB 😊👍🍻

You probably stepped on it's shit if you visited more than 5 years ago. Thank god they've cleaned things up quite a bit.

I went to Australia for a ‘year’ well meant to be a year, came back home after 2 months, just didn’t get the appeal at all. Wasn’t what I’d call eye opening or life changing in anyway.

food, sports, and beaches i reckon.

It's basically a history-less, hot UK with dangerous animals and Scandi standards of living.

paris, tokyo, shanghai, you should be so lucky.

Big cities...Yuk.... best city is a city of green my friends.

NY, Toronto etc, these places are fucking grim and the air and fumes and people want to swallow you up. Fucking rough concept..lol..

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the people are fantastic in toronto

In my experience Canadians are the nicest people, maybe just after the Greeks.

paris is the ultimate cookie cutter master planned community that everyone hates now

international waters would be a better view 🌏

Fucking amazed they are actually building this

My Husabnd was working on it, he doesn't think they will finish the full thing anytime in the next few lifetimes, but the sections they are currently building are out of this world, there are sections that cross mountains. Not sure if you have seen them, but the football stadiums they are about to construct for the world cup are truly mind boggling, give it a google.

how remote is the line from anywhere else it seems nuts

Not on my block ;)

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i think a lot of economist readers trend towards suburbs

Ya think? They rated atlanta the best place to live in the states.

The liveability index is based on several weighted factors: political stability, healthcare provision, education quality, etc. Geneva has a high cost of living so a rich population and so does well in these categories. Which is why this index is flawed, like you say: it doesn’t take culture into account very well (this is an aspect but it’s difficult to quantify and subjective) and only accounts for how current residents find it, i.e. those who can afford to live there (or those who are unable to leave on the flip side).

morons, they actually ranked calgary as the best place to live in north america

really? my friend loves it

sure, if you live downtown like that