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I guess it's a matter of taste. Having lived in both Vancouver and Vienna, I would say the latter is without a doubt a better place to live.

Vienna is the most livable city 10 times in a row now!

YES!! https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2019/09/04/vienna-r...

These economist rankings are done from the point of view of rich expats. I very much doubt that their lives have much in common with the lives of people living in Vienna's public housing.

Yeah, it's a provincial backwater; even as an expat - it's pleasant for awhile, but notice how people never want to go these top 10 cities... LA, NY, SF, London, Paris, Tokyo etc are not in these lists.

There are different definitions of livability. Evaluating NYC in the same vein as, say, Nashville seems pretty much impossible.

Fun fact: It has been growing by 30% over the last 30 years. (from just below 1.5M in 1990 to just below 2M today.)

The article is about the situation the city was left in after a quite rapid growth from 0.5M in 1851 to 2M in 1910, just before WWI.

It's 1920s Vienna that is looked to for lessons about public housing.