The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) released its annual Global Liveability Index 2024, which evaluates cities worldwide for their livability.
EIU’s report examines 173 cities globally based on 30 indicators organized into five different categories:
- Stability
- Health care
- Culture and environment
- Education and infrastructure
The cities were then ranked on a 100-point scale. For the third year in a row, Vienna, Austria, ranked as the world’s best city to live. On the opposite side of the world, not a single city in the U.S. ranked in the top 20 places to live.
The report noted that a trend in the U.S. this year is smaller cities outperforming the bigger metropolitan areas.
Two of the more popular cities in America, New York and Los Angeles didn’t…
