Vancouver, Canada - World's Most Livable City

Vancouver tapped as world's most 'livable' city
Canadian Press
August 23, 2007 at 9:24 AM EDT

LONDON — Vancouver has been selected as the world's most “livable city” and Toronto the fifth most livable in a survey of 132 cities by the Economist magazine. The Economist Intelligence Unit says Vancouver was chosen number-one due to a low crime rate, little threat from instability or terrorism and a highly developed transport and communications infrastructure.

Vancouver scored a livability index of 1.3 per cent, with zero per cent indicating exceptional and 100 per cent indicating intolerable. It's the fifth straight time Vancouver has garnered the honour.

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