Farin Posted April 6, 2007 Report Posted April 6, 2007 [big]The world’s best cities are still in Switzerland[/big] 3 April 2007: Zurich and Geneva are the best cities in the world as far as quality of live is concerned, says Mercer Consulting in a survey published in April 2007. Vancouver (Canada) is placed third, followed by Vienna (Austria), Auckland (New Zealand), Düsseldorf (Germany) and Frankfurt (Germany). Paris, London and Madrid are in the lower half of the top-50 table. Overall, Baghdad is not surprisingly the lowest ranking city in the survey. watch the whole article with a list of the Top 50 cities in the world
edna Posted April 6, 2007 Report Posted April 6, 2007 Madrid before New York? I love New York, I would live there. Sure, if you are rich life is fine almost everywhere. Madrid was great many years ago but not anymore. I have friends in Geneva, they say it´s a bit boring... Where is Buenos Aires??
edna Posted April 7, 2007 Report Posted April 7, 2007 How could I forget about that??!! Thank you, Tim...
Kevin Posted April 7, 2007 Report Posted April 7, 2007 You remember , edna - where all the ' smart ' Nazis went with all their loot to hide out and rebuild the 4th Reich ... . It appears a fair number , and their decendents and co- conspirators took the short route to Switzerland , however ...
edna Posted April 7, 2007 Report Posted April 7, 2007 40 years ago you could find more nazis in Argentina and Brezil than anywhere else. In the Patagonia (South fof Argentina) there were even small villages where they spoke German. A friend of my family once met a guy wearing a swastika, she wouldn´t even waste her time reporting that to the police... ...except for some "wiser" nazis, like the one who was hired by the NASA...
Kevin Posted April 7, 2007 Report Posted April 7, 2007 Indeed ! Like Warner Van Braun ( and many others involved in gasses , advanced submarines and other 'experiments ' ) ?! V-2 rocket scientists , and by most counts ( considering what others went down for ) ... a war criminal - apparently not !?! Japan pulled the same crap off , in some respects - Unit 731 personnel walked away mainly scott-free - after subjecting Russian/ Chinese prisoners to pressure tests which exploded their bodies , as well as being injected with the Black Death bacteria . Really makes you wonder about the definition of ' justice ' or just what constitites a 'crime' ... The U.S has held people at their base in Cuba ( 5+ years now ) for longer , without clearer charges nor access to attorneys , than many of these above mentioned participants ever were !?! This is going to hurt and haunt them in world opinion for at least a generation , IMO .
MarcM Posted April 7, 2007 Report Posted April 7, 2007 Warner and company had something that we wanted. Experience with rockets. He, along with the other scientists brought to the US from Germany after WW2 were happy to be here, rather than the USSR, where some of the other German rocket scientists ended up. Now, the Unit 731 crowd, I dont know what happened with them, but they must have had something to offer. Sadly, if you have something that is of possible use, you will be treated differently.
Kevin Posted April 7, 2007 Report Posted April 7, 2007 I know what you're saying , Mark - and in the end , it was likely right . It's just a bitter bullet to chew when one knows that some went down for the same crimes ( relatively ) that others were rewarded with mansions in Houston for ... Justice ... Huh ! What is it good for- in a ' bought ' man's eye ?!
c_s_1987 Posted April 7, 2007 Report Posted April 7, 2007 Aww! Last time I saw one of these lists, Perth was at #3, and there were 5 Australian cities in the top ten. Oh well, I guess #21 isn't too bad. Darryl should come here and complain about how Brisbane is lower than all the other major Australian cities.
Kevin Posted April 7, 2007 Report Posted April 7, 2007 I think Perth was a typo : It's supposed to be #3 on the ' rat-hole's ' list ... After Calcutta and San Diego , but just in front of Philadelphia and Tijuana !
Uncle Joe Posted April 9, 2007 Report Posted April 9, 2007 The cities cited in Martin's opening post can't field a half-decent baseball, football, hockey or basketball team. You'd better like soccer and bad theater (except for London).
miamisammy29 Posted April 9, 2007 Report Posted April 9, 2007 You'd better like soccer and bad theater (except for London). Why? Doesn't London have soccer?
Farin Posted April 9, 2007 Author Report Posted April 9, 2007 You'd better like soccer and bad theater (except for London). you'd better like bad soccer (except in London and Madrid)
c_s_1987 Posted April 10, 2007 Report Posted April 10, 2007 you'd better like bad soccer (except in London and Madrid) And Perth. [big]GLORY![/big]
Batman Posted April 21, 2007 Report Posted April 21, 2007 hell yeah, portland's above seattle! how did DC get so high? it's an interesting place to visit, but if you aren't interested in politics there's not much.
TheLizard Posted April 21, 2007 Report Posted April 21, 2007 You win this round Batman... And I wondered that too, DC is only a good residential area if you're rich or you enjoy going to sleep to the sound of gunshots.
Batman Posted April 21, 2007 Report Posted April 21, 2007 plus, there's more culture in a few blocks of portland or seattle than in all of DC
Otokichi Posted April 21, 2007 Report Posted April 21, 2007 Whew! Honolulu is tied for 27th. Don't really want more folk raising property tax rates and adding to the already outrageous automobile traffic problems.
Rayzor Posted May 4, 2007 Report Posted May 4, 2007 What's wrong with Winnipeg? Our drug control is terrible (I'm all lit up again!) but gun control is okay. Housing is pretty cheap and we have great music here in Manitoba!
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