Farin Posted April 6, 2007 Report Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edna Posted April 6, 2007 Report Share 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?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLizard Posted April 6, 2007 Report Share Posted April 6, 2007 I believe it's in Argentina, Edna. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edna Posted April 7, 2007 Report Share Posted April 7, 2007 How could I forget about that??!! Thank you, Tim... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Posted April 7, 2007 Report Share 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 ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edna Posted April 7, 2007 Report Share 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... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Posted April 7, 2007 Report Share 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 . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcM Posted April 7, 2007 Report Share 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Posted April 7, 2007 Report Share 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 ?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
c_s_1987 Posted April 7, 2007 Report Share 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Posted April 7, 2007 Report Share 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 ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucky Posted April 9, 2007 Report Share Posted April 9, 2007 Only 7 US cities even made the list. Hmmmmm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Joe Posted April 9, 2007 Report Share 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). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miamisammy29 Posted April 9, 2007 Report Share Posted April 9, 2007 You'd better like soccer and bad theater (except for London). Why? Doesn't London have soccer? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farin Posted April 9, 2007 Author Report Share 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) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
c_s_1987 Posted April 10, 2007 Report Share Posted April 10, 2007 you'd better like bad soccer (except in London and Madrid) And Perth. [big]GLORY![/big] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Batman Posted April 21, 2007 Report Share 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLizard Posted April 21, 2007 Report Share 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Batman Posted April 21, 2007 Report Share Posted April 21, 2007 plus, there's more culture in a few blocks of portland or seattle than in all of DC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLizard Posted April 21, 2007 Report Share Posted April 21, 2007 And better music. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadows Posted April 21, 2007 Report Share Posted April 21, 2007 Yay, Wellington's up there! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Otokichi Posted April 21, 2007 Report Share 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rayzor Posted May 4, 2007 Report Share 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! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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