Vienna Is the World's Most Livable City — Again
If you could move to any city in the world, where would you go? New York has its theaters, but Paris has art and romance. Taipei has lively street markets, but Seoul has a trendy fashion scene.
Which to choose?
Well, Vienna is the world's most livable city, according to the latest survey by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU).
The EIU's Global Livability Index is a survey of 173 cities that gives each one a comfort rating out of 100 in five categories: stability, healthcare, education, infrastructure, and culture and environment.
Vienna is a regular winner in the survey, although it briefly lost its top spot in 2021 because the coronavirus pandemic caused its restaurants and museums to close.
The city, famous for its coffee houses, palaces and opera, scores highly in all categories, and according to the EIU report, its only weak point is that it doesn't have so many sports events.
Copenhagen, Denmark's capital city, came a close second for the second year in a row. The home of the Little Mermaid got a perfect rating of 100 for stability, education and infrastructure.
Two Australian cities, Melbourne and Sydney, rose up the rankings to take third and fourth place, and Vancouver in Canada came fifth.
Just one Japanese city, Osaka, managed to make it onto the top 10 list, sharing 10th place with Auckland in New Zealand.
Japan's third largest city, which is famous for its food culture, had perfect ratings for stability, education and health care, and its culture and environment rating also went up after the end of pandemic restrictions.
According to the EIU report, cities across the world are becoming more livable as pandemic restrictions end. The average score for all the cities in the survey was 76.2 out of 100 — up from 73.2 in 2022.
