Posted on 08/19/2018 4:36:53 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Thank you.
Did you ever visit Budapest or Prague?
Some friends who were in Vienna a few years ago had the same impression as you.
They pronounced Budapest “Buda-Pecht” or something like that and loved it and Prague.
” . . . but the historic buildings, the sea food (like you said), and the Autumn Foliage are really nice.”
Just a couple hours north of Boston is Portland, Maine; it has all three of those features and Maine is much less left-wing than Mass.
Then Calgary is DEFINITELY out for you!
On my last visit, it was -26F.
LOL I recognized that scene when I saw the car and heard the music and started laughing. Funny!
Thanks.
You could live in Bratislava, only an hour away from Vienna, for a lot less.
I have visited many of these cities. I don’t want to live in any of them.
I looked at the top 25.
Not very diverse.
Oddly, none are in the US. There are some nice cities in our country, though most are NOT run by democrats.
I hear you!
Yes...Maine is terrific.
I have some relatives there too.
Muslims in Portland and Lewiston
We lived in Kobe from 1994-2002, a 20 minute walk from a public beach. It had the class of Tokyo without the crowds and was less costly than Osaka which, while it has nice things to say about it, is almost as pricey as Tokyo with fewer of the amenities.
The site requires registration to download the report. Not going there. Everything depends, of course, on the scoring matrix and the weight given to various components. The U.S. has some challenging demographic issues that will significantly affect our scores on crime and educational quality. In addition, too many U.S. cities developed in the automobile age and are big, sprawling, often ugly messes; that can be handled in various ways in such surveys, but it’s not hard to find metrics that ding the U.S. Almost any major U.S. city has middle- and upper-middle class areas that will compare favorably with their equivalents around the world. U.S. downtowns generally fare less well. And we have an adversarial, drug-addled, crime infested underclass that gives us a black eye. The rest of the developed world, aside from Japan, is beginning to catch up, as they continue to attract mass third world immigration, but the U.S. has a head start.
The only country I’d want to visit in that top 10 is Japan, as that’s a homogeneous country and wants to protect its culture.
Lol. Toronto is more liveable, lower crime, etc than Salt Lake City? Lolol. Honolulu too.
These city lists are always complete horsepucky.
Honolululz.
Toronto #7?!
Insanely high real estate prices.
Murder rate higher than NYC.
Public housing ghettoes.
Paralyzingly traffic and long commutes.
A grossly inadequate subway system.
Bad smog.
A leftist city council.
Multiculturalism on steroids.
Boooo da pesht.
Lived there twice. Learned the language. AWESOME city. Very beautiful, very friendly people, and the prices of everything are way way cheaper than Vienna.
I’ve been to Prague about 5-6 times. Its also a pretty city with more reasonable prices though more expensive than it was and more expensive than Budapest, its still way cheaper than Germany or Austria. The architecture and the beer are really good.
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