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Melbourne has retained its position as the best city in the world to call home.
Often derided as Bleak City by Sydneysiders, Melbourne topped a survey of 130 cities, narrowly beating out the other four Australian capitals surveyed - because its weather rated the best.
Sydney lost ground because its crime rate was rated on a par with New York and London.
1= Melbourne 1= Vancouver 1= Vienna 4 Perth 5 Geneva 6= Adelaide 6= Brisbane 6= Copenhagen 6= Montreal 6= Oslo 6= Sydney 6= Zurich 13= Helsinki 13= Stockholm 13= Toronto Others: 19= Auckland 19= Honolulu 28= Paris 45= London 51= Dublin 51= New York 57= Washington 64= Athens 75= Beijing 130 Port Moresby |
While Perth was given an overall mark of 1.1, Adelaide, Brisbane and Sydney scored 1.2.
The heightened terrorist threat only had a minimal impact on western cities, even those in the United States, largely because of newly developed security measures.
The highest ranked US city was Honolulu in 19th on eight points, while New York was 51st with 16 and Washington was the lowest of 16 American cities in the survey at 57th, mainly due to a higher risk of terrorism giving it an overall score of 19.
London was equal 45th, along with Los Angeles, Madrid and San Francisco.
Kuwait fell the most places, dropping from 87 to 97 because of the war in neighbouring Iraq, while Harare suffered the greatest actual drop in living standards as a result of ongoing unrest and slid eight places to 118.
The Iraqi capital Baghdad was not included in the survey.
- AAP
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