Tuesday, April 10, 2007

We built this city

Not so much on rock and roll. BusinessWeek featured a list of the World's Top 100 Most Liveable Cities, a report published by Mercer Human Resource Consulting based on what works well with.... the expats? I scanned the list quickly and had my share of agree/disagree/doesn't-make-sense opinions on the entries.

On one hand, "liveable" can be a very relative term.

Interesting to see that the United States did not have a representative until the #27 position: Honolulu, Hawaii. Nothing against paradise, but I am not so certain a liveable city to a local means paying the highest sales tax in the United States with your purchases because of a nature of the tourism-driven state.

Nice to see San Francisco, CA land right after Hawaii.... and surprisingly followed by Boston, MA as the 3rd US contender at #36. Manila has yet to climb up from #123. (Odd. I recall seeing the aforementioned expats in Makati/Alabang last time I was home and they seemed pretty comfortable....)

*Thanks for the tip on the article, sister.

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