So this is it, then. Stop your whining, Melburnians — your city has once again been named the most liveable in the world. If you can't make it there, you can't make it anywhere.
For the second year running, Melbourne has been deemed as good as it gets by the Economist Intelligence Unit survey, including perfect scores for infrastructure, healthcare and education. Any overall score above 80 is considered a good result for the survey, and Melbourne scored a 97.5 (losing marks only for climate, petty crime and culture, which we're going to go ahead and blame on your shitty hipster band).
Survey author Jon Copestake confirmed Melbourne's culture score was at least partly your band's fault, but insisted the city had still done well in that department, despite rating a 95.1 compared to Vancouver's 100 and Toronto's 97.2.
"This score is only one below a top score," he told The Age, "so it's not a bad score, but the areas where it underperformed were live theatre, classical music and modern music."
To be fair, Melbourne has 370 live music venues, and it's unlikely Mr Copestake is a regular at any of them. This is a minor quibble, though, when you consider where the competition ended up. Adelaide came in 5th, Sydney 7th (!) and Perth 9th, but Brisbane lagged behind the field at 20, while all those Olympic accolades could only translate into 55th spot for London.
Crikey digs into the findings examining whether "global cities" like New York, Paris, San Francisco, LA and London were hard done by.
