Toronto named second best city worldwide
03-21-2012, 11:14 PM
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Toronto named second best city worldwide
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/...rticle2020962/
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Trumped by New York City, Toronto stood out among the world's "metro powerhouses" in the areas of finance, tourism, livability and innovation - and was the only Canadian city to make the cut. sports and leisure, as well as skyscraper construction - if you count that as a positive.
the firm that published the study:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PricewaterhouseCoopers (British, not Canadian)
03-21-2012, 11:15 PM
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Good thing it doesn't take into account traffic...
03-21-2012, 11:16 PM
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On the same day that a Canadian study ranks Toronto 77th in Canada
03-21-2012, 11:21 PM
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On the same day that a Canadian study ranks Toronto 77th in Canada
Link? I'd like to see this.
03-21-2012, 11:25 PM
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Every one of these studies are intended for completely different purposes, so its not so surprising that the results differ.
03-21-2012, 11:27 PM
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Cool, very nice for Canada to have Toronto rank higher against some very beautiful cities in the world.
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03-21-2012, 11:27 PM
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We all know if they took sports seriously we'd be far lower on the list.
03-21-2012, 11:30 PM
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03-21-2012, 11:32 PM
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Got to make the rest of the country feel good about themselves
03-21-2012, 11:34 PM
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I thought this study was conducted by Brad Richards last July...
03-21-2012, 11:35 PM
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I thought this study was conducted by Brad Richards last July...
We have a winner.
03-21-2012, 11:35 PM
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Got to make the rest of the country feel good about themselves
The Toronto hate is beautiful
I like Montreal at 149 though dubey. Talk about problems.
03-21-2012, 11:36 PM
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I thought this study was conducted by Brad Richards last July...
03-21-2012, 11:38 PM
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I thought this study was conducted by Brad Richards last July...
Well done.
03-21-2012, 11:39 PM
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Am I missing something or are there only 26 total cities taken into account spread worldwide?
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That seems a bit more reasonable and much less selective
03-22-2012, 12:57 AM
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WTH are they basing this on?
Stupid survey, some people like the downtown, hustle and bustle and others simply like to live somewhere like Red Deer.
03-22-2012, 01:01 AM
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very generous of them to call most of those places a city.
03-22-2012, 01:34 AM
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Other studies have said Vancouver is in the top 3 in the world.. not sure what to believe.
03-22-2012, 01:49 AM
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WTH are they basing this on?
Nobody should ever like to live in Red Deer IMO.
Love seeing the anti Toronto bias out here in the west. Lots of them hasn't even been to Toronto, yet the people are jackasses and the city is dirt.
Surprised quite how high Toronto's rated though.
03-22-2012, 02:07 AM
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Yayyyyy! We numba 2!!!!
But seriously list in OP is a little nuts. IMO Toronto makes top 5 cities in Canada but not in the world.
03-22-2012, 03:23 AM
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am i just retarded? where is the list?
03-22-2012, 04:54 AM
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Considering their ranking uses crime rate, your ability to walk to work, house pricing, and unemployment, every large, high population city is going to be at a disadvantage. Then they take sports, leisure, entertainment, tourism, arts/museums, music scene, historic landmarks, food & drink, etc, and roll them all up into one category and call it 'culture.' Which is of course weighed as heavily as your ability to walk or bike to work
That's a fine ranking system, Moneysense.
03-22-2012, 06:01 AM
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Anyone who would believe this doesn't get out much.
03-22-2012, 06:33 AM
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Apples and Oranges really.
There are only 3 places in Canada that could arguably be called 'cities' from the global point of view: Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal.
Everything else is just a town.
Canada is small population wise though so our terminology is more generous
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