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The world's most livable cities in 2019

No hardship location for these cities! For the second year in a row, Vienna, Austria, has been ranked by The Economist Intelligence Unit (The EIU) as the world's most  livable city. Music, art, the grandeur of architecture, it's amazing coffee culture - all of these played a role in achieving a near perfect score of 99.1 and keeping it at the top of the annual index which ranks 140 cities on 30 different factors that are split into five different categories:

  • stability
  • health care
  • culture and environment
  • education and 
  • infrastructure

After displacing Melbourne last year, it maintained its form and won out in 2019's version of The Global Liveability Index 2019. Here is a list of the top 10:

  1. Vienna, Austria
  2. Melbourne, Australia
  3. Sydney, Australia
  4. Osaka, Japan
  5. Calgary, Canada
  6. Vancouver, Canada
  7. Toronto, Canada & Tokyo, Japan tied
  8. Toronto, Canada & Tokyo, Japan tied
  9. Copenhagen, Denmark
  10. Adelaide, Australia

The cities within this top 10 list did not change from last year except that Sydney bumped itself up into third from fifth last year by improving its environment score as it rolled out a 2030 strategy to address and combat the impact of climate change.

Check out the full list to see where the destinations in your mobility program sit.

(CNN) — It's long been known for its grandiose architecture, lashings of green spaces and traditional coffee shops -- and now Vienna is building itself a reputation for something even more covetable. The Austrian capital has been ranked the world's most livable city for the second year running, topping the table with almost perfect scores for stability, culture and environment, education and infrastructure, and health care. It was followed by Melbourne -- which Vienna toppled from pole position last year after seven years at the top. Sydney, Osaka and Calgary make up the top five on the annual Global Liveability Index of 140 cities around the world, researched by The Economist Intelligence Unit.

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