The US didn't make the list of the top 25 best places to live. What went wrong?
Every year, the Economist Intelligence Unit ranks the best places to live around the world in the, as well as the worst places to live. This year, the list looked at 172 cities and based the ranking on a number of categories, including stability, healthcare, culture, education and infrastructure.
Vienna, Austria, was named the best place to live in the world, followed by Copenhagen at number two, Zurich at number three and Calgary at number four. In fact, many European and Canadian cities dominated the list of best cities to live, due to factors like stability and good infrastructure. But what about the United States? This year, the U.S. didn’t crack the top 10 list of best places to live—or even the top 25, for that matter.... [+]The highest ranked U.S. city was Atlanta, coming in at number 26 on the overall list—making it the best city to live in the country, but only the 26th best place to live in the world. Next up on the list was Washington D.C. at 29, followed by Honolulu at 30, Pittsburgh at number 36. Los Angeles rounded out the top five list for the U.S.
So what gives? “Many of [the U.S. cities] scored relatively low in the areas of stability and healthcare when compared to some of the top ranking cities in Europe and Canada,” says Upasana Dutt, head of Liveability Index at EIU. “There are a few longstanding structural factors that impede many U.S. cities from challenging other cities in advanced economies at the top of the rankings, such as a greater incidence of social unrest, which is often rooted in the country’s ongoing racial inequalities.
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