SG Ranks As Hardly Livable City. Another FAP Traitors' Great Achievement!

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MELBOURNE, ADELAIDE, SYDNEY, PERTH AMONG WORLD'S MOST LIVABLE CITIES, SG RANKED 52ND

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20 Aug 2014 - 4:19pm








The Economic Intelligence Unit (EIU) claims its annual Liveability Survey could be used to "assign a hardship allowance as part of expatriate relocation packages," among other things.

But that needn't apply to those in Melbourne, which for the fourth year running has been declared the best city in the world to live.

The Australian culture hub was buoyed by superlative healthcare, infrastructure and education as well as a murder rate of 3.1 per 100,000 people, half the global average of 6.2.
Melbourne's total score of 97.5, assessed on various factors such as "stability" and "culture and environment," as well as those mentioned above, was just 0.1 points above Vienna, which scored identically across all categories to Melbourne except culture and environment.

The top 10 list hasn't changed since 2011 and of the 140 cities surveyed, only 20 changed score in the last year.

"Over half of the changes taking place over the past 12 months have been driven by deteriorating scores," said the report, "with instability re-emerging as a key factor in influencing global scores.

"Events in Ukraine, in particular, have had significant knock-on effects for cities such as Kiev, Moscow and St Petersburg.

"Localized instability has also affected locations like Bangkok.

"The score of Damascus in Syria has continued to decline, although the escalation in Iraq is not reflected in our ranking because Baghdad is not included in the survey."

Tehran in Iran, Tripoli in Libya and Amman in Jordan saw their scores improve, having "enjoyed periods of relative stability following significant falls in liveability."

But over the last five years, global liveability has declined overall, "highlighting the fact that the last five years have been characterized by heightened unrest in the wake of the global economic crisis."
Kiev (Ukraine), Tripoli (Libya) and Damascus (Syria) have seen the biggest falls in liveability over the last five years, says the report.

10 most liveable cities
1. Melbourne
2. Vienna, Austria
3. Vancouver, British Columbia
4. Toronto
=5. Adelaide, Australia
=5. Calgary, Alberta
7. Sydney
8. Helsinki, Finland
9. Perth, Australia
10. Auckland, New Zealand







10 least liveable cities
131. Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire
132. Tripoli, Libya
133. Douala, Cameroon
134. Harare, Zimbabwe
135. Algiers, Algeria
136. Karachi, Pakistan
137. Lagos, Nigeria
138. Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea
139. Dhaka, Bangladesh
140. Damascus, Syria

Singapore is ranked 52nd while Hong Kong beat Singapore at 31st.

In the Asia Pacific region, Bangkok ranked 103rd out of 140 cities in the survey. Other low-ranked Asian countries were Jakarta, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh and Phnom Penh.

The lowest-ranked city in Asia-Pacific is Manila, whose rank improved to the same level as Mexico because “the overall level of global liveability has been decreasing”, the EIU
noted.

It seems that despite paying our Ministers the highest salaries in the world, they can't even make Singapore reach the the top 10 list in livable cities.

What do you think?


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