Why does Canada have three of the world's most liveable cities?

Because they don't consider how much it costs to live there. /thread

Calgary is the only one with a decent cost of living. You can get a single detached for 400k. You can buy an apartment starting at 120k. Not unreasonable
- Yeah but the only downside is you have to live in Alberta, though.
  (I am kidding... Calgary is a nice city, but the current ruling party are extreme Canadian magas so also not kidding.)
I wouldn't live in any of them. 1. They're cities. 2. Winter(especially there) is a bitch
Whoever wrote this has never lived in that kind of winter. I have. Eff that. Makes those places a zero, from the start
- Oh yeah, Vancouver really gives northern Siberia a run for its money during the winter. Human beings just aren’t built to survive one or two days of snow every couple years. Best you stay far away and live somewhere pleasant, like rural Texas.
- I wouldn’t live in any of them. 1. They’re cities
  Maybe a list of most livable cities isn't for you then.
- Winter is really mild in Vancouver and for the past 15 years it hasn't been that bad in Toronto either.
  Good luck affording housing here though.
- I live about 30 mins from vancouver in the US, and winter in this region really isn't that bad. I could see it for the other cities, but in this region we have years where it doesn't even snow at all. The last "bad winter" we had was about 2 years ago, and before that maybe 5 years ago?
- Those are fairly mild winters dude, have you ever lived north of Tennessee?
- I would love to live in toronto but I live in chicago now.

My experience is only from Vancouver and though I've visited many times, I don't live there, but

The public transportation and mixed zoning is something that I wish every city had. The city is massive but it feels cozy and entirely accessible.

Vancouver resident here. A great deal of the city of Vancouver and surrounding Lower Mainland are suburbs. The mixed-zoned areas tend to be some of the most expensive and have been gentrified to hell or are in the process of doing so.
Vancouver also has some of the worst traffic in Canada (and North America, if I remember right) and most of the buses here get stuck in gridlock traffic and are frequently late. Our passenger train system, the SkyTrain, is our best option but it is limited in where it has stations and Vancouver's immense wealth disparity and poor treatment of homeless often leaves the SkyTrain in a state of filth or feeling unsafe.
I've lived here all my life and will likely have to leave soon. Vancouver is not a livable city by any means; it's one of the most expensive places to live in North America. This is a very beautiful city with many amazing places to see and visit but it has a lot of darkness and suffering under that thin surface and less than nothing is being done about it. For every beautiful tourist destination there are numerous streets full of homeless camps, littered with feces, and drug addicts stumbling around without any help.

This is based on old data, I believe. Maybe ten or twenty years ago sure. But now it is only feasible to move here if you earn 300,000+ a year, whee!

I was going to ask if livable included affordable.
- It must not be included in their requirements... which means its not a very useful list

I mean, If you're only only going to have five cities, you can concentrate on doing them right /s

real answer: Because the majority of their cities are in the Midwest

I've deleted and redrafted this several times now... but am I unreasonable for being weirded out and a bit offended by how out of touch rich-and-powerful-people journalism is? Canada, like Australia, is soaked in blood. This is just public image laundry for a country with the same genocide cops and resource extraction monstrosities as all the other colonies, and I'm guessing most of the people reading a niche link aggregator aren't really the target audience.

If things like this are going to try and memory hole the crimes of a state, we should conscientiously memory hole crappy fluff pieces like this. Who's moving to Canada? Who has the ability to initiate infrastructure projects or run funding requests up the political ladder?

If nothing else, just as a personal request. I just spent a long time trying to stay calm and articulate (or relative to my original state upon reading this) because this really made my blood boil.