Melbourne tops Sydney again as most liveable  MELBOURNE has held on to its status as the third most liveable city in the world. The latest index by The Economist magazine, released yesterday, scored the city just 2.5 points short of perfection, the Herald Sun reports.Vancouver, Canada's host of the Winter Olympics, rated top of the annual survey, scoring 98 out of 100 on a comparison of stability, healthcare, education, infrastructure, culture and environment.Vienna in Austria was second with 97.9, just ahead of Melbourne's 97.5.Down Under dominated the rankings with three other Aussie cities in the Top 10 - Sydney 7th and Perth and Adelaide 8th equal.

Auckland rated 10th.Canada had two other top-five entries, Toronto (4th) and Calgary (5th).The Economist's intelligence unit ranked Zimbabwe's capital Harare as the world's worst city.Papua New Guinea's capital Port Moresby ranked 137th out of 140, just ahead of Lagos in Nigeria and Algiers, Algeria.

Melb is nice..........

(borat's voice)

Well come on down and visit a spell. I'll break out the Barbie and beers :-)

i love the free train around the city.................... its niceeeeeee (borat's voice)

lol kunny...how long will this go on for?!

I LOVE Melbourne. Much better than Sydney, though Sydney ain't too shabby. I could definitely see myself living there as well.

The only thing Sydney has over Melb are the beaches (Borats 2nd home).

In every other regard "We have it all"

Well we would if Kunny lived here and left Borat in Sydney :-)

if only you had the Ashes.....

we'll get the ashes back next summer!

ummm why is perth level with adelaide??? Adelaide is so ZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Perth Rocks! Woo hoo!

Ok we have nothing here in Perth.

if only you had the Ashes.....

we let you guys win because we felt sorry for you !!! 1 win in 20 yrs aint bad!!!

it's pretty good here gav!!!!

There are big plans for renewable energy (Geothermal & Solar) and LNG development in Australia. Australia will probably be the biggest energy exporter in Asia, suppling electricity to Indonesia and exporting natural gas to China & India. I'd say the economic outlook for Australia is very positive.

Tasmania---- WIN!

its niceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee (again borat's voice)

I love Melbourne too, could def live there if I had to move. Ahh them "Italian" and "Greek" chicks...

and where that leave my country Kazakhstan at? its not niceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Tasmania---- WIN!

its niceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee (again borat's voice)

The Map Of Tassie is pretty good as well!!!! lol lol !!!

Tassie devils will get ya Dave40!

High Fiveeeeeeeeeeee

Tassie devils will get ya Dave40!

High Fiveeeeeeeeeeee

Kunny you are a legend !!!!

Well I like both cos has unique charactors of eaach town

Syd and Melb is a big bloody rush hours city not a town........... high fiveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

maybe ya mean o w n... ooh me being not niceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Melbourne is a great city but I am a tad biased!

Interesting that Australian and Canadian cities keep dominating these surveys.

believe it or not in some rankings it depends on which one you read france is ranked number one followed by Switzerland

www.internationalliving.com/Internal-Components/Further-Resources/quality-of-life-2010

GoodKarma: The survey I posted delt with cities.

The one you are talking about deals with countries

In your survey France was number 1 and Australia number 2

So your point is ?