I posted this last year, and the list hasn't changed much. Australia and Canada still dominate it.

An explaination on how the ranking is down can be found here:
http://www.economist.com/blogs/gulli...e/liveability2 [also the main source]



Here is the top 10 in 2012:

#1 - MELBOURNE, Australia


#2 - VIENNA, Austria


#3 - VANCOUVER, Canada


#4 - TORONTO, Canada


#5 - CALGARY, Canada


#6 - ADELAIDE, Australia


#7 - SYDENY, Australia


#8 - HELSINKI, Finland


#9 - PERTH, Australia


#10 - AUCKLAND, New Zealand


London ranked #55, the best ranked American city is Honolulu at #26. Montreal (also in Canada) ranked in at #16. Dhaka was ranked #140.

If anyone finds a link to the FULL list I'll update and post it here.

So did your city make the list?

Other sources:
http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Van...534/story.html

Toronto

Honolulu? Livable?

Honolulu was also America's highest ranked city last year too.

Damn Australia and Canada

Yas at my city being number 5

I've considered permenatly moving to Australia so many times.

Australia. And yes @ the city I used to live on #9 (even tho it's black hole on earth actually).

I wish I lived in Australia

I wish I lived in Australia, too. Or Canada.

Landaan remains unbothered

Melbourne was my fave Aus city when I travelled there. Not surprised it tops this list.

Having said that cities like London/NYC etc. obviously have more going on but will always rank relatively low due to higher crime/pollution/congestion and other factors like that. Doesn't (IMHO) make them less awesome places to live - as long as you don't mind knowing that those factors exist in such cities.

I'm gonna live in New Zealand one day. I promised.

Where can I see the full list?

Why is Australia so livable ?

With a paid subscription to the Economist, you can see the list.

The article on their site breaks down how they rank the cities.