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Singapore is great. They rank at Number 8 on the corruption index, pretty impressive for Asia; the U.S. is way down at number 18. Higher numbers mean less corruption on this scale. They were as corrupt as Mexico some 70 years ago, had enough of the status quo in Asian culture and launched an anti-corruption drive, and are now one of the best places in the world for education and doing business.
The U.S. desperately needs an anti-corruption drive; or perish.
I was born and raised in New York, and lived there for 30 years (Manhattan and the Bronx). I left there 40 years ago, and never regretted leaving.It is strange the OP'er and those like him or her have yet to answer.
It make me wonder does the OP'er believe the data that was collected for the ranking of those cities was done only after Trump became President?
If so then the OP'er should realize the fact is American Cities have never been great except maybe New York.
Cities like Chicago have been worthless for decades and crime goes up and down and it has been under Democratic leadership since I slithered out from the rock I am from, so why hasn't those like the OP'er try to fix this problem by electing leadership in the local and state governments that would help fix the inner cities that the world hate?
I know the OP'er want to blame Trump for the ranking but I know better...
Singapore is great. They rank at Number 8 on the corruption index, pretty impressive for Asia; the U.S. is way down at number 18. Higher numbers mean less corruption on this scale. They were as corrupt as Mexico some 70 years ago, had enough of the status quo in Asian culture and launched an anti-corruption drive, and are now one of the best places in the world for education and doing business.
The U.S. desperately needs an anti-corruption drive; or perish.
I've been to Singapore many times as my mother is from there. While I agree it's a great place, the problem I have with it is they are very authoritarian, including elements of speech, and have extremely harsh penalties for breaking the law.
I was born and raised in New York, and lived there for 30 years (Manhattan and the Bronx). I left there 40 years ago, and never regretted leaving.It is strange the OP'er and those like him or her have yet to answer.
It make me wonder does the OP'er believe the data that was collected for the ranking of those cities was done only after Trump became President?
If so then the OP'er should realize the fact is American Cities have never been great except maybe New York.
Cities like Chicago have been worthless for decades and crime goes up and down and it has been under Democratic leadership since I slithered out from the rock I am from, so why hasn't those like the OP'er try to fix this problem by electing leadership in the local and state governments that would help fix the inner cities that the world hate?
I know the OP'er want to blame Trump for the ranking but I know better...
7 in germany, LOL
7 in germany, LOL
acceptance of rapefugees must be a key qualifying factor...
That's the big problem with these "polls" it blows off urban beauty.
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(Just a couple of the sites in the Municipality of Anchorage, Alaska - I keep thinking I'll get back to updating this album; going from Anchorage north to Fairbanks, then south to Seward. Some day...)
LOL Yes, well, when the flora and fauna do laundry, deliver groceries, open restaurants, service cars put on performing arts events, build roads, rail stations and airports, heal what ails one, run schools and universities, provide banking services, and more, perhaps Anchorage will move up in the rankings. LOL
We have all of that except grocery delivery. (Unless you count personal assistants? We have a lot of them who do all the shopping for the wealthy retiree's)
There's no denying that Anchorage has its appeal. That it doesn't isn't why it or any other U.S. city didn't make it into the top 25 on the list.
I read the OP's source article. It lists the major criteria Mercer used. Among them one finds this: "Natural environment (climate, record of natural disasters)." I did, and having my extreme aversion to earthquakes and their attendant surprise-factor and risks, what comes to mind about Anchorage is this:
Earthquake Track notes that Anchorage has had:Even when Anchorage itself isn't at or near the epicenter of a quake, it's right there on the edge of the water just waiting for a tidal wave from any of the local quakes or those arriving from quakes elsewhere on the "ring of fire."
- 2 earthquakes in the past 24 hours
- 9 earthquakes in the past 7 days
- 60 earthquakes in the past 30 days
- 846 earthquakes in the past 365 days
Now for me, and I'm not with Mercer Consulting, that earth-moving-under-my-feet thing is alone enough to erode any peace of mind I might, as a resident of the place, care to have, thereby making any city exposed to as much quake risk as Anchorage to be in the bottom "whatever" of a list of the cities having the best quality of life. That along with, AFAIK, Anchorage lacking the other "world class" (or near it) amenities I demand in a city in which I'd live, there's no way I'd put Anchorage in the top 100 cities, ranked on "quality of life."
Now does that mean there's not a lot of "goodness" going on in Anchorage? No, not at all. It just means there's a lot more "goodness" going on in other cities.
Probably because they don't have a democrat-government-created black third-world subculture skewing things.
Yes, very Conservative.Singapore is great. They rank at Number 8 on the corruption index, pretty impressive for Asia; the U.S. is way down at number 18. Higher numbers mean less corruption on this scale. They were as corrupt as Mexico some 70 years ago, had enough of the status quo in Asian culture and launched an anti-corruption drive, and are now one of the best places in the world for education and doing business.
The U.S. desperately needs an anti-corruption drive; or perish.
I've been to Singapore many times as my mother is from there. While I agree it's a great place, the problem I have with it is they are very authoritarian, including elements of speech, and have extremely harsh penalties for breaking the law.
I love it when America hating leftist create lists.
^ hates American cities, probably lives in one.
The US doesn't have any cities that are any good, that's why.
You could live in one of these places, there are hundreds of them all over. Nice old towns.
Or you could live
Or you could live in places which aren't that great to walk around and feel comfortable.
The US has cities with crime rates that are too high, where you need to have a car, where everything's kind of stressful, or you could live somewhere else.
I love it when America hating leftist create lists.
B/c it never fails to get America hating, American leftists, to expose themselves.
and seriously, you leftists fucks live in those cities, you make them suck, so it's on you.
It is obvious that we should put the entire population of Los Angeles on container ships and send them to Naples Italy.
Everyone would be happier...win/win and all that.
The problem with such rankings, is that most of them are extremely subjective.
Nothing irritates me more, than a massive city. I hate massive cities.
Most people like them.... (I think....).... but I hate them. I hate massive crowds where I can't hardly walk anywhere. I hate non-stop noise that never ends. I hate flickering lights flashing in my face until the end of time.
I'll take old Hilliard, over any of those places.
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One of the metrics was the sub-way system. I'll take this over any sub-way system.
Sports? Massive stadiums, where the cost of a ticket is a weeks wage, only to end up with a worse view of the action, than you could get with your remote at home? And pay 1/4th the cost for all the drinks you could possibly want?
The only measurement that actually mattered to me, was the crime. Crime is a big deal. It doesn't matter what any city offers, if you lose your stuff to thieves, and end up mugged on the way home.
And I love how Singapore was on there, given the way they handle crime is with a noose. You want to hang criminals, in order to catch up to Singapore, I'm all for it.
