Vancouver, the city between the water and the mountains, one of the most “livable” in the world” is boring“ in fact `mind numbingly`so, according to The Economist magazine, Or more accurately, according to its business travel columnist, who works under the nom de plum, ‘Gulliver’.
Gulliver says livability indexes, which he once compiled for corporations, do not include the fun factor inherent in living in a dangerous, or at least slightly unsavoury metropolis.
And, he asks, “where’s the fun in nice?”
But, The Economist cannot necessarily be trusted when it comes to Vancouver.
In 2011, the magazine’s intelligence unit dropped Vancouver’s ranking on its own livability index due to traffic congestion.
The demotion was blamed on a crash that closed a nearby highway for 22 hours. The location of the highway, however, was the Malahat on Vancouver Island — about 60 kilometres and a 95-minute ferry ride away.
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