Every six months, the EIU (the publishers of "The Economist" magazine) publish a list of the world's most livable cities. This is based on security, healthcare, education, tranpsport etc. The purpose is to demonstrate to companies where their executives might like to live, and conversely where they wouldn't (so they'll ask for more money to go there).
It wouldn't come as any surprise to readers to know that there are four Australian cities in the top 10. Melbourne is the world's most livable city. Adelaide is number 5. Sydney comes in at 6 and Perth at number 9. The rest of the top 10 are Toronto, Vienna, Vancouver, Helsinki, Aukland and Calgary. (Some would be interested to know that the highest ranked US city was Honolulu at 26).
This brings to mind two things. In highly 'livable' countries, of which Australia is obviously one of the highest ranked, we often take for granted how blessed we are and the obligations we therefore have to consider the rest of the world.
Also, I think we need to guard against complacency. It would be easy to look at reports such as this and find that we forget that within livable cities there are still many lost people, addicted people, abused people and homeless people.
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