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发帖数: 29846 | 1 December 12, 2012 by Warner Todd Huston
TIME has one of those lists that we always start to see as the year comes to
a close. This one is the top ten best and worst places in the world to live
. Sadly, there isn’t a single place in the U.S.A. on that list.
The worst place to live on this list is, unsurprisingly, the disaster-prone
(both man-made and natural-made) country of Haiti. Neither Yemen nor Iraq
fare much better than Haiti. The rest of the top ten worst list is filled
out with African nations — again, unsurprisingly.
But it’s the best-places list that disappoints the red, white and blue as
not one of the best places in the world in which to live are in the good ol
’ U. S. of A.
The “Best Quality of Living” list is:
Vienna, Austria
Zurich, Switzerland
Auckland, New Zealand
Munich, Germany
Vancouver, Canada
Dusseldorf, Germany
Frankfurt, Germany
Geneva, Switzerland
Copenhagen, Denmark
Bern, Switzerland
What is the deal? Why does this list diss the United States? In fact, the
USA doesn’t even appear in the top 25 best places.
The first U.S. city doesn’t appear on the full “best” list until the 28th
spot (Honolulu, Hawaii). The other U.S. cities in the top 50 are San
Francisco (29th), Boston Mass. (35th), Chicago, Illinois (42nd), Washington
D.C. (43rd), New York City, New York (44th-tied), Seattle, Wash. (44th-tied)
, and Pittsburgh, Penn. (49th).
Sadly, in this day and age, we find ourselves torn over a list like this. I
mean, with as bad as the age of Obama has gotten, perhaps we should not be
surprised that we didn’t make the top ten list.
On the other hand, this is TIME magazine we are talking about. We’d be hard
pressed to imagine that any list reported upon by TIME would ever hold the
U.S. in very high regard.
So, what are the criteria for this thing, anyway? Well, the list was
compiled by the New York City-based consulting firm Mercer and they claim
that they measure the following ten categories:
Political and social environment (political stability, crime, law
enforcement)
Economic environment (currency exchange regulations, banking services)
Socio-cultural environment (censorship, limitations on personal freedom)
Medical and health considerations (medical supplies and services,
infectious diseases, sewage, waste disposal, air pollution, etc.)
Schools and education (standard and availability of international
schools)
Public services and transportation (electricity, water, public
transportation, traffic congestion, etc.)
Recreation (restaurants, theaters, movie theaters, sports and leisure,
etc.)
Consumer goods (availability of food/daily consumption items, cars, etc.)
Housing (rental housing, household appliances, furniture, maintenance
services)
Natural environment (climate, record of natural disasters
Though some of these categories are awfully subjective — I mean,
availability of theaters? Seriously? — in the era of intrusive big
government, with our destroyed Obama economy, and with the increasing big
brotherism indulged by our various governments, local, state and federal, I
can see why we are losing ground in measures of freedom.
In any case, there are mixed emotions with this list. It is maddening all
the way around that the U.S.A. does not at all figure prominently on a list
of the best places in the world in which to live. | y***r
发帖数: 16594 | | y***r
发帖数: 16594 | 3 晕死，美国最适合居住的都是 深蓝， time 绝对是个左。。。 | m****s
发帖数: 1481 | 4 我觉得大城市真的没得住啊，纽约特别是，除非是为了工资高一点，我实在想不出纽约
有啥“宜居”的，芝加哥还不错，还有三番，华盛顿就算了吧，一个镇子一样的地方 |
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