Heavily biased towards costal US / Western European cities; ignoring the changes in liveability that takes place elsewhere (Asia, Eastern Europe, mid-sized cities of the west).
The most livable cities
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I love “car-infested”. Taking public transport and living densely is my version of hell.
Where I live, public transport is a breeze. Roomy, punctual, good serving frequencies, clean, constantly improving (more stations, modernizing vehicles). I don't have to concentrate on driving, I dont have to worry where to put the vehicle when its not in use, I have not been in a traffic-jam for year. And they cost less than owning a car.
>Where I live, public transport is a breeze. Roomy, punctual, good serving frequencies, clean, constantly improving
Can I ask where that is?
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These lists also often ignore the weather, which makes a huge difference to what most people consider to be "livable". Nordic European winters are horrible, and no amount of amenities can compensate.
Europe in general is quite gloomy
Europe is a big place; fjords have little to share with Algarve or Greek isles as far as climate goes.
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Wrong. German is a nationality, not an ethnicity, except if you take an opinion of a few far right borderline Nazi German parties.
German is both nationality and ethnicity.
There are ethnic Germans outside of Germany. For example, Germans in Kazakhstan, they report their ethnicity as "German", despite being Kazakh citizens.
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You are confusing Europe with the US, Canada and Australia. Being German is akin to being Maori or Aboriginal.
I think you mistook German for Germanic. German means citizenship in Germany, Germanics were peoples living in central Europe and Scandinavia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanic_peoples
German is also ethnicity, as I mentioned above, there are Germans e.g. in Kazakhstan and other countries, who are not German citizens.
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Europe is a big place; fjords have little to share with Algarve or Greek isles as far as climate goes.
Even those can't compare to the southernmost US states.
My perspective is different, but I wouldn’t call the southernmost US states very livable, their summers being incredibly hostile without technology. And climate change is making things even worse (which is also happening in the Mediterranean).
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>There are as large regional differences within individual European countries Have you considered that they're not very large differences and you're just blinded by the fact that you're attuned to them?
> Have you considered that they're not very large differences and you're just blinded by the fact that you're attuned to them? Well, let's compare. You could drive for days across America, and hear truly microscopic changes in accent and dialect from one side to the other. Here in Scotland, I could drive for an hour and hear a totally different accent, two hours would get me to a totally different dialect, and with a…
Europe hasn’t had a foreign army invade and kill off almost all of the native population for a very long time. In the US it happened just a few centuries ago. Makes for a much more homogenous culture.