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Economist Intelligence Unit's 2019 ranking of the world's most liveable cities
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I think one of the issues with this comparison is that it is one event in one place. Olympics is going to be handling multiple events at multiple venues over multiple days. That is probably going to tax the system severely.
I still think they will pull it off without disaster, but unless people actually do opt out of going to work en masse the lines are going to be very very crowded.
Too bad Japanese people don't seem to be aware of that. A quick search about some news in the last 30 days.
Also, slave work!
It's going to be a miracle if nobody dies.
Because rent and real estate prices are insane, due to the notion that the market won't ever get down due to the popularity of the city.
Other cost of living like food are as expected for a big city, but if you don't want to live in a dump, you have to pay a lot (>12000€/m2, or >24€/m2 if you are renting)
Which gets even worse if you take the salariea into account, as people earn a lot less than in Switzerland.
Also, the general increase in tourism/interest with 5.2 million tourists visiting Japan in 2002 compared to 31.1 million in 2018, and with hopes of 40 million in 2020 :P
Yeah, I posted on the previous page that one thing I prefer about Osaka is how much less crowded it is, but that's not even really true now. My neighborhood is mostly fine but the shopping districts can be phenomenally crowded in recent years.
Still less crowded than Tokyo in general, which is why I am not really looking forward to my TGS trip this week! The stations and trains seem more crowded every year I go.
I don't get these lists. I guess they make sense if they aren't taking income into account and assume people have unlimited resources. Not seeing how Toronto is anywhere near the top considering the housing market here.
I live in New Zealand, just visited Tokyo for the second time, and arrived in vienna 2 days ago.
I wouldnt live here if you paid me. I was here for 30 mins and was approached by a creep that made me not want to leave the hotel room. I just want to go home :( probably doesnt help that im homesick, but I would rather live in Japan than Europe. But I also like New Zealand so I think ill just stay there when I get back lol
I wouldnt live here if you paid me. I was here for 30 mins and was approached by a creep that made me not want to leave the hotel room. I just want to go home :( probably doesnt help that im homesick, but I would rather live in Japan than Europe. But I also like New Zealand so I think ill just stay there when I get back lol
Too many hipsters and not many things to do, but I've been here for more than a decade.
Was in jest, I lived there for a bit. Actually preferred it over Osaka or Tokyo - just have to avoid the tourist horde.
I have family living right in the city, within the Yamanote circle in fact and they are not very excited about the Olympics happening next year. Like, at all.
The housing market is pretty shit in almost all major cities though and this list seems to be taking housing costs into account. Zurich and/or Geneva not being the top in terms of living costs points to that. It's bad there too, but especially on the low end wages tend to be higher than in other places.
nah they're fascists alright. they're already starting to lock non-favorable outlets out of press conferences and whatnot.
Out of the cities listed at least, they def got Lagos right. Most of it is a shithole. Unless you are super rich.
Vancouver is a nice city, but it's like San Francisco JR in how much it costs to live there. A friend of my aunt's had waterfront property from back in the 80s and she's a millionaire now just from selling her home.
Yeah lmao I was looking through to find it and... nope
Gotta love ranking culture on a 1-100 scale too
Does it have things wealthy white western Europeans like? 100 points.
Works just like the climate category.
I'd love ti live in Vienna. It might be my favorite European city, or at least from what I can tell. I know my tastes pretty well and it seems to check all the boxes in terms of culture and architecture.
If anything else, it's known for its fantastic music!
If you're the kind of person who looks at top 10 lists of best cities in the world to decide where to live, you probably can afford $210 NYC hairtcuts.
But if you're the kind of person who gets $210 NYC haircuts, you would be fine getting $210 hair cuts anyway so it wouldn't figure into your living decisions.
No one's moving from NYC to Osaka to save $150 on haircuts.
But if you're the kind of person who gets $210 NYC haircuts, you would be fine getting $210 hair cuts anyway so it wouldn't figure into your living decisions.
No one's moving from NYC to Osaka to save $150 on haircuts.
Come take the Tozai line. I swear it has to be the worse Metro line in all of Tokyo. I have no god damn clue how Tozai is even going to handle the extra people. Peak hour is going to be so so bad.
You really can't find anything to do in Melbourne? Relative to the rest of Australia, the arts, entertainment and food/bar scenes are strides ahead and there are plenty of beaches an hour or two outside the city for when summer rolls around.
Of course congestion is bad on certain lines, I imagine yamanote would get alot worse for example, but they have plenty of experience of event planning.
Done most of those things, but honestly it's most probably just me. Getting old and being more interested in historical stuff at the moment.
