He disses Australia however it still has the highest gross millionaire migration rate in the world, there's more to life then low taxes, most people don't wanna be the rich person getting served by poor people they wanna live in a community of people who are all doing well in a place that has clean air, great food, safety and beauty and while I'll admit Australia could do better when it comes to personal freedom(still better then most countries though) it's pretty hard to beat on economic freedom and while taxes are high you get the benefit of living in a place that functions as well as Scandinavia but with some of the best weather in the world, it's also now cheaper then most of USA and western Europe as long as your out of Sydney, Melbourne and a handful of other towns
I wouldn't move my businesses or money to Australia. During covid they locked everybody down, even citizens were not allowed in. No Thank you. moved out of Canada for blocking travel too.
@@IroncladTrading I feel the same way. I will not support Australia or New Zealand for tourism because of how the Australian government treated people during Covid.
I’m from Syd and have fam in Melb, I can see why so many people leave. You get taxed to oblivion and that money gets wasted, champagne and caviar for the politicians. Even if I made 400k+ I’d be hard pressed to want to stay here even i moved to Cairns. I’d rather move somewhere else.
The medical system in Canada has collapsed. The waiting time in hospitals in the emergency department is 20 to 24 hours. Waiting time for getting appointment with specialist is 4 to 6 months and over 6 million Canadians have no primary care doctors.
It's really unfortunate to hear about the challenges in Canada's medical system. On a brighter note, have you considered exploring Malaysia for its excellent and affordable healthcare options? Here's a link to learn more about the healthcare system in Malaysia: th-cam.com/video/TCIOkNgKmOE/w-d-xo.html
Vancouver? They must be joking. Pay a fortune to live in a miserable few square metres in an overcrowded high-rise apartment building. Streets strewn with homeless drug addicts living in tents. The worst bus trip I ever went on in my life was in Vancouver - squeezed tighter than sardines in a can. The weather is awful.
Vancouver used to be nice long time ago of course they used to advertise it and push it on people a lot in the movies here in USA.Bit turns out that Vancouver was mainly only for the top 15% of people the people that made average money wouldn’t have those great experiences in Vancouver just like here in the USA.
Being London based, of course the economist is biased towards Commonwealth countries. They're also the most tyrannical countries so that's not very livable.
Vancouver and Toronto in top 10? That's a massive joke lol. Calgary probably the best place in Canada right now but current the current Crime Minister is making an active effort to drive the country to the ground.
And healthcare too. My son broke his arm in Hong Kong. Within an hour of arriving at the hospital, he was in a cast and was taught how to shower with it. In Canada, 3 months later, it took 10.5 hours of waiting in the ER just to get an X-ray done.
I hate toronto so cold and dead but vancouver is my top 3 forsure i been all over the world. Its so clean, so is the air and water. People are so friendly its so beautiful, so much to do.
Lol, I left Melbourne to protect my medical freedoms and not risk being locked in my home for 290 days again. They made my wife and I (both citizens) "apply" for permits to leave the country in Sept 2021. The rule was you had be gone for a min 12 weeks. We left and never came back. EAD Melbourne IYKYK
You’ve hit so many nails on their heads with this video. I’ve lived in Vancouver my entire life and have seen a deterioration of standard in living, despite being ranked high on “their list”. Free healthcare ≠ Great healthcare, in South Korea (where most healthcare is private but very affordable)a friend of mine was able to get 4 xrays done in 4 weeks. In Canada, you have to wait at least 6 months to get one. Many people are leaving. I’m really keen on Malaysia….any Vancouverites living in Malaysia willing to share their experiences?
@@sambocap It's a ubiquitous, common and cheap procedure all over the world in places rich and poor, that's all. I can't imagine waiting six months to get one in the poorest part of Africa. It's a stretch to believe that anyone would have to wait even _six hours_ to get one in Canada...except in the case of a major disaster if a small hospital were swamped with a massive number of injured people all at once.
@@sambocap I'm guessing you're somewhere you have to ask the nurses for permission to use the internet. I'm in a Canadian metropolis. I last had an x-ray 14 months ago. The doctor said "Let's get an x-ray" and it happened 20 minutes later. I really hope the nurses are nice to you.
South East Queensland in Australia (the Gold Coast area, south of Brisbane) has everything that Sydney and Melbourne has, but it’s significantly cheaper , and the weather is consistently better.
I hate Melbourne. I was born there and always wanted to leave, even as a child. It always gives me bad vibes. I like SEQ but if I move back to Aus anytime soon, I want to go to Hervey Bay. Far enough away from all the city shite and you're not invaded every weekend and school holidays by Brisbane people, but still close enough you can drive there if you need to.
@@Mmwindowcleaners yes it was. I would argue QLD was the least worst in terms of restrictions but the point that was being made is that SEQ is better than Sydney and Melbourne by most metrics. Personally I would escape to Florida if I ever got the chance…
Paying 39% income tax and 15% VAT in Auckland and getting nothing for your money isn't a great deal. Sure it's a nice city, traffic sucks, real estate is very expensive compared to other international cities, and it's a hell of a long way from everywhere. I run a business across 150 cities and live in Auckland. Fortunately I can live from home, but I'm looking to get out.
Australia it would be the best country in the world, but the Government and Police State ruin it. They treat you like a criminal, and taxes are too high
If you are a doctor, don’t go where healthcare is cheap. You will be paid peanuts and be stuck burning your savings. World is different for different professions. Make your own criteria on Excel and score points as per impact on your needs.
People who are leery of SE Asia, please just take a trip to Malaysia. While I find Kuala Lumpur the capital to be too urban like my San Francisco, I love many smaller cities within Malaysia. Penang is highly, highly underrated. Some people may disagree, but when I am asked how is Penang (Island) I honestly say imagine Oahu, Hawaii but cheaper and with way better food.
As someone from Sydney, the biggest issue is isolation and extremely high property prices. 1.6million for the average home in Sydney. Remote job allowed me to leave Australia and i have no plans on returning. If you have a remote job, South East Asia, Eastern Europe are your best options for tax and lifestyle. Latin America is too unstable and has chaotic polluted cities. Canada is a joke, western Europe has high taxes
I really like your take on those listings of the "Most Livable Cities." Those lists are probably prepared by journalist who use "Google" for research, and never have actually traveled all over the world, lived in different cities and paid taxes in different countries.
The liveability index is not about the wealthily millionaires, its about the average person, the level of quality of life that an average person receives in a given city. That's because rich people can maintain good quality of life anywhere, so it's pointless.
Hi, the best place to stay is Nizhnyaya Yeltsovka in Novosibirsk. In the morning and evening, walking through the pine forest to the train, a boost of energy every day.
@@GordoGambler The temperature you specified happens extremely rarely, maybe once every five years and lasts no more than a week. Otherwise, it is quite comfortable.
There's almost no violent crime in Denmark! The health care is free for foreigners as well. June, July, and August - I wouldn't want to be anywhere else in the world.
@@Blackcat35938little do you know , after life is where it begins. These are deaths of the chosen people. Remind me once we both are in graveyard and both of will take a peak to really see and understand the gaza people. True facts that's not spoken
If you're looking for options outside of Canada, we recently published a video highlighting three affordable destinations where you can potentially relocate: th-cam.com/video/rXgW-SfDP1c/w-d-xo.html
People are great in Bangladesh but Dhaka drops down in livability due to horrible traffic jam, petty crimes, air and noise pollution, corruption, slow beaurucracy, slow internet, unstable electric grid etc. It's still a great place to invest due to rapidly improving economy and infrastructure.
When I think of liveable I think of quality of life. Most if not all of the top 10 cities are extremely expensive to live in, with a a climate that many would not like. Some cities that come to minds (for expats at least on a temporary basis) that are very liveable include: Brisbane, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Dubai, Hong Kong, Bangkok, Tallinn. Calgary being in the top 10 is enough to show you how bogus the list is!!!
Hong Kong is the best, as long as you have money and don't make noise about the mainland government. Apart from that , it's amazing place (been here 8 years, love it)
Dictator Dan was the premier of Victoria and was responsible for the lockdown of the state and the draconian control of Melbourne its capital. I live in Sydney and watched in horror as I saw my friends in Melbourne suffer, lose their business and their freedom. They will never forget or recover. I am considering whether I remain in Australia and am looking at options to relocate my business and family abroad. Freedom and a country that is not woke is of interest.
@@norbiberman7363 you walk into random pretty dull looking buildings and are suddenly utterly taken aback by the presence of god… every but as beautiful as the Vatican!.. the classical music has a similar impact. There’s a richness to life there that I’ve never seen before in such a small area
Living in one of those cities that wins top 3 every year, I don't believe it. It's an exercise of buying a place on the list... the councillors from the city lobby and pay the economist magazine for a good ranking, it became part of their city prestige and budget. It's also part of a psychological experiment, saying it's the most livable whilst being the most locked down. It's Melbourne...
The reason you don’t believe it is because you’ve never lived in a third world country so you don’t know how good your life actually is in a western country. For someone like me, who moved from a third world country to a western country I can see that things is still better than in my third world country even tho it is far from perfect. You westerners take your good quality of life for granted. And you guys think life in third world countries are better it’s because you come from a western country with high salaries, so going to a third world country it’s much cheaper for you guys.. but for us living here, it is not cheap at all. Also, grass is always greener than the other side.
Do you really think there’s no lockdown and government overreach in third world countries? In fact, it’s even worse. I agree many western governments handled the covid pandemic in an authoritarian like way, but many other countries have it worse. In Asia, the government was even more restrictive than in the west, touting had to scan a QR code that is tied to your personal information on your phone to enter any premises like shops, restaurants and shopping malls.
The NHS is the Uk 🇬🇧 is basically collapsed. At this moment you can wait 40 days to see a GP and 6/8montgs to get an MRI . Infrastructure in Uk has also collapsed.
@@கோபிசுதாகர் in those cases, in Canada, it's much faster. if you're in critical condition, it will be done immediately at a hospital. But if you're not actually dying, it's will be months. Even if it's a suspected cancer where every day matters.
Thanks to the US's criminal occupation and sanctions on Syria, Damascus has moved from the top 5 safest cities in 2010, to the most unlivable city in the world.
@@navigator590 It isn't just Chinese. You would be surprised how many Indians/Punjabis have purchased gas stations, rental apartments, etc. This is a culture that works together to build community wealth. People keep commenting about the Chinese but they are unaware that India has a large population and many area very wealthy.
I live in Asia and i remember as a kid back in the early 90s how awesome cities like New york, LA, SF etc. are and how i wished i could live there or at least pay a visit. Today, they all look like 3rd world cities with high violent crimes, drug addicts, homelessness etc. Not appealing at all. Its really sad how things have got so terrible in the US in just a span of 10 - 20 years...
NYC is that bad, if you ONLY WATCH certain things they show shocking things...I'ts still a world class city. yes homelessness is up but if you have money it's pretty nice, visit.
I agree , i spent a few weeks in Hua Hin last November because I plan to retire there next year . Hua Hin will be my base to visit every parts of south east Asia . Great beaches , good infrastructures , nice airport and train station , horses on the beach lol . I will buy a nice condo with a sea view , it's going to be paradise for me . I already have a beautiful Thai girlfriend waiting for me to sell my houses and everything else in Canada , except for my Porsche and RV for when I will visit friends and family during the SUMMER . I can't wait to live in this little paradise. Hua Hin is a great choice for me .
All due respect any list that has Vancouver as a liveable city for your average person is nuts! It's very liveable for people with tons of money but anyone else it's completely unliveable.
My top 10 livable city list 1. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 2. Bangkok, Thailand 3. Singapore 4. Dubai, UAE 5. Doha, Qatar 6. Istanbul, Turkey 7. Port Louis, Mauritius 8. Panama City, Panama 9. Da Nang, Vietnam 10. Kigali, Rwanda
Agree with this list. Anywhere below the equator and that historically shows value towards humanity without northern country interference is a great place to go.
I love your video productions. Keep these coming, as they are invaluable for many people. I stay 6 to 8 months a year, on a resort island in The Philippines! I’m 70 and loving life!
As a Canadian I would scratch Vancouver and Toronto off the list! Views are nice in Vancouver city of the sea to mountains to Whistler. Well not worth the trouble of lengthy lines at the hospital waiting up to 4+ hours to emergency doctors! Bring cash if you want to move to Canada.
As a former torontonian who now lives in Paris... like going from 10 percent to 99 percent awesome... Canadian standards of living tanking under Trudeau and fools in Toronto city council
I’m moving to Vienna soon after years of living in Austria. I can tell you all that you can get used to Austria way of living easily. Just be aware that knowing german is a big plus while you’re here and making friends is easy if you socialize. Gyms, sports, concerts, university, jobs, are some places where you can meet people because Austrians don’t tend to be that open at first but once they can open up with you things go better. I would rather move to Austria or Vienna (since people from here say that they’re different things) rather than going to Switzerland or Germany. Taxes are high but you can tell where all your money goes once you realize that medical services and studies are mostly free. Winters are long but you always can get somewhere else for a while with your whole month of vacation and if salaries aren’t that great for you (although they are enough to pay all your needs here and save extra money) you can always work remotely in USA. Give it a chance! All Nordic countries have worts winters and there is almost impossible to socialize unless you get introduced by someone who lives there or if you grew up there. Not because they have more experience with English it means you can get a long that well over there.
You guys are awesome, you always come up with the best answers to many people's questions. It'd be nice to see you throw a bone to the people making 100k plus. If anyone could do it, it'd be you!
Don't move to sydney, i live in sydney so I know. It has very unaffordable to live in sydney. A small 1 bedroom apartment rental about A$3,000 per month. To buy the same apartment about A$1MIL . even groceries r really expensive here.
Totally agree with you about Australia. My husband really wanted to visit Australia for years, so during lockdowns we watched a ton of TH-cam and saw how they treated their citizens- he lost all interest.
This guy makes so much sense. He thinks outside the box and definitely makes you think if it's worth paying so much taxes. Thumbs up. I'm British living in South Africa..
Malaga and Valencia beat easily any of the top 10 most livable. Know it by experience. Most top 10 are either boring (Vienna or Geneva), have a terrible weather, are in the corner of the world (Auckland), are a shithole of drug addicts of Fentanyl and homeless (Vancouver) or are incredibly expensive like Zurich or Geneva again. Not to mention gastronomy or quality of life.
You mean cheapest? Saskatchewan is a frozen suburban wasteland with nothing to do and no way to get anywhere. Calgary is fine, but it is also a cold, sprawling, car-dependant suburbia with not much to do
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I used to live in Toronto and i live close by but i would never live in Toronto again. Too much traffic, bike lanes, high cost of living (rent, high house prices, closing costs and taxes)
@@mr.jayjay2401 bike lanes are great as long as they don't take lanes away from cars on heavily congested arterial roads. Also many of these bike lanes are rarely used
@@Mmwindowcleanershow are they rarely used? Are they probably implemented? Are they safe? Sounds like bad city planning. There's whole channels on TH-cam about this if you are interested.
I finally got to Kenora, Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, Q City on my trip in 2019 to 8 provinces and 22states. Rode my CCM 3 speed in those cities. LOL. Easy. Hotel stay was 4 nights in Markham, so 19 miles to the tower thru North York. Was easy to get around on the bike, but horrible the first morning I drove the loop thru construction everywhere, It's still horrible. I was on sidewalks as much as the bike lanes, like on Warren street after dark. The shore path had TOO MUCH bike traffic. LOL. What I LOVED about Ont. were the majority brick and stone houses and even apartments, but yah 4 million$. AB is the plastic siding and 4 story wooden condo capital of the world, it SUCKS. Now they are building 6 story ones just 2 blocks form me, hell. Edmonton buildings are 99% drop dead UGLY. WTF. Calgary has horrible freeways and now a ringroad that's a prison wall for bicycles. The hills suck too. Only the Yellowhead road is a nogo in Edm.
I’d argue having a (good) transportation alternative to a car - especially for a perpetual traveler - is a HUGE advantage to living in any place. Add to that: that place with great transit usually isn’t in the west.
@mr.jayjay2401 Well the USA and Canada are far less dense so it makes sense you don't have the same level of public transit as denser countries. But most large American cities have decent public transit. It's just not a pleasant experience to take it. But there aren't a ton of non-western countries that have amazing public transit. Maybe a few countries. His comment just doesn't make much sense. Europe has great public transit. East Asia probably has great public transit. USA and Canada are probably just below those. Then there are a shit load of non-Western countries where public transport is a complete disaster.
yep. In Vancouver it's not very good. It's better than most places in North America but still not adequate for a city of this size and density. And if you want to go out of the city there are no options but to drive.
As far as infrastructure, no roads (except in Africa) could be worse than the affluent streets (esp. El Camino Real) of the peninsula of the San Francisco Bay Area in California. I'm terrified by car will get a flat in the endless potholes going to and from work. It's absolutely outrageous.
It's a ghost of what it was. The number of university degrees granted, especially graduate degrees, skyrocketed in the past 30 years, but the prevalence of really educated people in the workforce dwindled horribly. PhDs are like German mark banknotes in 1923. Kingsley Amis' famous prediction about higher education has alas come true with a vengeance: _"More will mean worse."_
The Economist like all British media is propaganda. I ousted to read economist and tabloid newspapers in flights in and out of UK in the 90s just to laugh at their rubbish. Cannot believe people actually buy these!
“Dying in the streets”…I had the misfortune of growing up in Calgary and living there for 25 long years. One typically arctic winter morning I was looking out the rear window of my apartment and saw some emergency vehicles at the building directly across the alley. Some guy had been drinking, sat down and fell asleep on a porch, and literally froze to death overnight. They were carting his rigid corpse away. Bet that kind of thing doesn’t happen in Kuala Lumpur very often…
because salaries are high, political stability, education, healthcare, you know, things normal people actually care. If you are not the 1% you can't grab a jet and go to Romania or Bahamas or Brazil for extra rich private healthcare, you have to take the local healthcare provided by either the government or company, and for that, for the common people Australia, NZ and Canada are the best
These "Most Livable Cities" lists are conducted by The Economist, a left wing organization. They favor left wing countries with universal healthcare. That's why US cities don't rank high, despite every major US city being better than all Canadian cities on the list. (Better weather, higher salaries, lower taxes, much more affordable real estate prices).
@@Darklight704 Canada healthcare is proposing people assisted suicide so I'm not sure about that. If healthcare is so important I'm surprised Sweden is not there
According to a San Francisco social worker and he was an ex-homeless person, he stated 871 homeless died in the streets from 2022-2023 and over 1400 died in LA during that same time. But the news media ignores this.
Thank you Andrew for another informative video. If I was in your tax bracket I would definitely hire your organization. But I live very close to your insight, Thank you so much!
lived in melbourne 20 years ago, for a year absolutely amazing city. Returned 5 years ago for my wedding, overly disappointed. Same with toronto, studied university there, now not great. But now we live in dhaka, and we bloody love it, its chaotic but has so much of a buzz. its all relative i guess in your experience
Those lists are indeed laughable, what are the parameters based on? today there are millions of "over the average" earners truly struggling to make ends met. Property (buying or renting) is increasingly more unaffordable in most of the "top countries" , taxes are getting higher, normal food is getting more expensive etc... The supposedly high standard of living in the West is a thing from the past.
In Melbourne we were put under house arrest for 23h a day for months on end. There was also a curfew in place for months. The right of assembly was suspended. People were forced to spend time in hotels in many cases. They were literally held in hotels against their will, which is the text book definition of kidnapping (state sanctioned in this case). Police would use any amount of violence against whoever decided not to comply. Your individual liberty is always at risk in Australia. Always have a plan B and watch your back.
Thanks for these videos. Not only for the valuable information but for confirming my inner most feeling that my home country, the US feels like it’s really declining n many ways. I’m living in Berlin, Germany for the last few years and it has its pros and cons as every place, but besides higher taxes, the quality of life is quite good and knowing my two sons who are 17 and 11 are safe walking to school and even taking the metro at anytime of the day or night is priceless. Virtually no gun violence here and I feel it’s a good place for education. But now I’m looking for an even better country where we can thrive even more. This channel is a fantastic resource, thank you.
These rankings are almost always Biased toward western countries. They ignore many many things that have everything to do with livability because if they consider them, North American & European countries won't rank high: Crime rate: Crime is over the roof in UK, US (Have family member there), Canada, Australia (My family members stay there), Germany (Sister lives there)...etc. Tax: They don't care. It seems the higher the tax, the better it is for the persons rating these countries. Racism: They also don't care if you as an expat will have high chance of getting attacked verbally or physically based on your race. Singapore Example: It ticks all the above criteria as livable but it never gets to the top 3. Why? Because they are not a western country. If Singapore was a country in the western hemisphere, it would have been named 100 times as the top countries to live. Top of safety list, top of everything.... In this biased list, probably Osaka is the only true livable place although you can never assimilate in the society there due to their xenophobia.
Singapore is too small to be taken seriously as a permanent lifestyle base, plus all the locals complain about life there being too restrictive. Also it is a massive nanny state being a former British colony and also taking on the worst traits of the CCP with their close ties to them with jab mandates, surveillance etc. Great place to visit and do business though, just not for long term living.
@@EricHa-lt9oc CNA Singapore the CCP proxy mouthpiece, echoing all CCP talking points. Too small, I regularly do business there and many friends there, they all hated the fact they were trapped there during lockdowns and no chance to get into nature. Nowhere to drive. No beaches to swim in just swimming pools. Malaysia is much more liveable and there's a reason Singapore was kicked out of Malaysia. It's position as a livable place is especially precarious if another war kicks off, Singapore collapsed in a matter of days in WW2 and the same thing can happen again.
Good food in Osaka I can also vouch for that. On a Calgary-specific point, like the Province hate the Mayor. At least for the Mexicans still sold on Canada you can recommend a more conservative education in Alberta. I agree the Economist data points are not the best
@@sm3675 Agree good city, terribly designed parking fee for people who live near the transit having to pay for their own parking spaces in front of their house. 61% disapprove 30% approve Thinkhq.
Currently, the best city for freelancers are Baku, Azerbaijan. Nice architect, clean city, lovely cuisine, very safe to walk anytime at night, cheap rent, cheap food, cheap living cost, 4-5 star local hotels are also cheap etc. Move there at least for a month.
I couldn’t agree more, this list just reeks of Western self indulgence, arrogance and sheer selectiveness. I am staying in Kuala Lumpur and laugh my head off with my company based in Labuan. Health care at Prince Court Medical Centre, living in downtown KLCC opposite the Twin Towers with impeccable views, great wining & dining, excellent infrastructure, great holiday destinations within 2 or max 3 hours reach and no taxes.
That's nice to hear! It's packed with valuable insights and strategies to help you navigate your international lifestyle and make the most of your opportunities abroad.
I lived in California all my life until my late fifties. I have now retired and live in Bangkok. Sometimes it's too hot, the air can be bad at times, lots of traffic. But most of the time it's good. Very livable. Good food that's easy to get, great nightlife, excellent health care, and you will never be cold. Cheap flights all over the region, beautiful islands and interesting places to visit. When I visit America now I am aghast at the cost of things and the horrific political climate. No thanks, I like it where I am.
my dad grew up in Harare when it was Salisbury....i went there briefly for a few days in 2001...interesting experience....there was an article a few days ago where you could get Zimbabwe citizenship and a passport for $5k
Yeah when white British people were stealing enslaving black Zimbabwe.Sure your father had nice time pity natives had terrible time had to wage war on white British to get there country back
You and your business would benefit from taking a more elaborate and informed view on Latam. Especially the more developed cities like Buenos Aires, Montevideo or Santiago. They are so under-covered. Weather, friendliness, architecture, lifestyle, culture and business opportunities.
Who wants to live in a city ? (I agree that if you are under 50 years old then cities are best) I retired to the Algarve, (Golden triangle) .. The climate is perfect, clean air, no traffic and little crime.
It’s amazing all the “isms” that are being spewed here. But the point is obvious that this report is not targeting wealthy people it’s talking about the masses, middle-class and working class people. If you are among the richest, you can be a global citizen and your life is cushy wherever you go.
Only one Asian city!!!!! That's b£#@s, quite a number of Asian cities were strong and stable during the pandemic then most western cities!!!! Western people are just looking for low tax or freebies
I think when they determine the most liveable city the health care system should be included. Especially if there is Universal Health Care and no cost if you get very sick.
@@francisemanuelrosa7388 correct, from around 8 years, spanish youtubers and influencers have come here for tax purposes. Spain personal gains tax is an up to 48%, here it's 10%. Since it shares it's culture with Spain, and it's very close they choose it as a destination to live
@@bocatadejamon292 Wow, what a difference, now I see the reason hahah In July I'm traveling to Pamplona to see family, I hope I can visit Andorra and the Pyrenees
Kerala in India is a really great place for digital nomads. 1. Tropical 2. Beaches, Backwaters, Hillstation 3. Best Healthcare in South Asia 4. Most livable cities in India 5. Highly educated society 6. Affordable and quality real estate 7. Lowest crime rate and best policing 8. Secular and friendly people
I was a travel nurse for several years in the US. Every year industry websites would publish a list of the best cities for travel nurses. Consistently the best cities were NYC, LA, Chicago, etc. These are horrible choices, most travel nurses would not consider. When I dug into the rational, it was based on walkability, average education of the citizenry, ballet/theater/symphony, parks per mile, bicycle culture, farmers markets, etc. I was a medical mercenary; I didn't give a shit how many Michelin rated restaurants a city had. "How much do I get and what do I have to do for it?" I am always skeptical of such lists.
Same, used to live in Paris. Realised I hadn't been to the theatre for about 15 years, couldn't afford it, got home from work after they started anyway. Visited most of the museums I'm interested in 20 years ago.
I currently live in Zurich and it's great, but if I was already rich I would not live here hahah but even within that top 10, my gf is from Denmark I'm from Argentina we live in Zurich, sometimes she gets annoyed at having to handle things like healthcare herself because she isn't used to it, but I pay 18% on a 6 figure salary and ond only 5k in healthcare per year in the worst cases, in Denmark I'd be paying tens of thousands for much worse service
He disses Australia however it still has the highest gross millionaire migration rate in the world, there's more to life then low taxes, most people don't wanna be the rich person getting served by poor people they wanna live in a community of people who are all doing well in a place that has clean air, great food, safety and beauty and while I'll admit Australia could do better when it comes to personal freedom(still better then most countries though) it's pretty hard to beat on economic freedom and while taxes are high you get the benefit of living in a place that functions as well as Scandinavia but with some of the best weather in the world, it's also now cheaper then most of USA and western Europe as long as your out of Sydney, Melbourne and a handful of other towns
People can disagree with you and not be dumb or bad.
Was it not so awesome when nobody was allowed to leave? And now that they are turning towards full on cashless it will be even better!
I wouldn't move my businesses or money to Australia. During covid they locked everybody down, even citizens were not allowed in. No Thank you. moved out of Canada for blocking travel too.
@@IroncladTrading I feel the same way. I will not support Australia or New Zealand for tourism because of how the Australian government treated people during Covid.
I’m from Syd and have fam in Melb, I can see why so many people leave. You get taxed to oblivion and that money gets wasted, champagne and caviar for the politicians. Even if I made 400k+ I’d be hard pressed to want to stay here even i moved to Cairns. I’d rather move somewhere else.
The medical system in Canada has collapsed. The waiting time in hospitals in the emergency department is 20 to 24 hours. Waiting time for getting appointment with specialist is 4 to 6 months and over 6 million Canadians have no primary care doctors.
It's really unfortunate to hear about the challenges in Canada's medical system. On a brighter note, have you considered exploring Malaysia for its excellent and affordable healthcare options? Here's a link to learn more about the healthcare system in Malaysia: th-cam.com/video/TCIOkNgKmOE/w-d-xo.html
Same in the U.S even with good insurance. Doctors don't give the time of day
@@davidpristupa1629not true. I went to the DR today.
@@nomadcapitalistis Malaysia your top pick for healthcare at a retirement age?
@@CodingAbroad you can also pick India it has good medical care and is very cheap
Vancouver? They must be joking. Pay a fortune to live in a miserable few square metres in an overcrowded high-rise apartment building. Streets strewn with homeless drug addicts living in tents. The worst bus trip I ever went on in my life was in Vancouver - squeezed tighter than sardines in a can. The weather is awful.
Yes, grey buildings and miserable climate.
The insane wokeness of the place is the cherry on top.
Vancouver used to be nice long time ago of course they used to advertise it and push it on people a lot in the movies here in USA.Bit turns out that Vancouver was mainly only for the top 15% of people the people that made average money wouldn’t have those great experiences in Vancouver just like here in the USA.
In the 90s they had the best looking prostitutes in the world...has that changed?@@beca8898
The Woke has ruined that place.
You should talk about your own list Andrew!
I was raised in Melbourne and could not agree with you more. Beautiful city, terrible government.
The new India
The New Moscow.
Which cities do have a good government ?
@@georgeinjapan6583 Certainly none in the west I can think of. Singapore seems well run. Maybe Helsinki.
Being London based, of course the economist is biased towards Commonwealth countries. They're also the most tyrannical countries so that's not very livable.
more tyrannical than say, saudi arabia?
@@verveblack During covaids, most definitely. High tech dystopia unlike anywhere except maybe China.
It looks like Saudi Arabia or India HARD PASS@@verveblack
@BB-xx3dv The economist magazine is based in London.
an average person can have more success and stability in those countries
would be interesting to cross reference WEF's smart cities with this list of 'most liveable'.
Zürich for sur an certain 😂😉😁🤣🤣🤣
Also strong cities network
@@chrisk7118 Yes the entire "State of Victoria" is on the list, not just Melbourne itself!
@@sunshinegirl4715 Jesus doesn't surprise me. Haha Amazing that you know this stuff, it goes over 95% of peoples heads!
@@chrisk7118 😂
Vancouver and Toronto in top 10? That's a massive joke lol. Calgary probably the best place in Canada right now but current the current Crime Minister is making an active effort to drive the country to the ground.
And healthcare too. My son broke his arm in Hong Kong. Within an hour of arriving at the hospital, he was in a cast and was taught how to shower with it. In Canada, 3 months later, it took 10.5 hours of waiting in the ER just to get an X-ray done.
I hate toronto so cold and dead but vancouver is my top 3 forsure i been all over the world. Its so clean, so is the air and water. People are so friendly its so beautiful, so much to do.
@@skyline9789 clean? It's full of drug addicts and homelessness
That was the assignment Uncle Klaus gave him….
So why does EVERY city elect LEFTY cracpots??
Hey Andrew, I think it's time Nomad Capitalist made its own list. KL for starter!
Wow, a list of the best places for the 1% of the population... how relatable! how usefull!
@@Darklight704 What's your top 10 most livable cities then?
@@clemfandango77 Not cities where you can walk and bike around in any case.
Agree.
@@clemfandango77 ye ... no
Lol, I left Melbourne to protect my medical freedoms and not risk being locked in my home for 290 days again. They made my wife and I (both citizens) "apply" for permits to leave the country in Sept 2021. The rule was you had be gone for a min 12 weeks. We left and never came back. EAD Melbourne IYKYK
You’ve hit so many nails on their heads with this video. I’ve lived in Vancouver my entire life and have seen a deterioration of standard in living, despite being ranked high on “their list”. Free healthcare ≠ Great healthcare, in South Korea (where most healthcare is private but very affordable)a friend of mine was able to get 4 xrays done in 4 weeks. In Canada, you have to wait at least 6 months to get one. Many people are leaving. I’m really keen on Malaysia….any Vancouverites living in Malaysia willing to share their experiences?
I wonder if you know what an x-ray is.
@@dixonpinfold2582 I do.......what's your point?
@@sambocap It's a ubiquitous, common and cheap procedure all over the world in places rich and poor, that's all. I can't imagine waiting six months to get one in the poorest part of Africa.
It's a stretch to believe that anyone would have to wait even _six hours_ to get one in Canada...except in the case of a major disaster if a small hospital were swamped with a massive number of injured people all at once.
@@dixonpinfold2582 Well, that is the reality in Canada. Ask any Canadian, I'm guessing you're in Africa? What's the system like over there?
@@sambocap I'm guessing you're somewhere you have to ask the nurses for permission to use the internet. I'm in a Canadian metropolis. I last had an x-ray 14 months ago. The doctor said "Let's get an x-ray" and it happened 20 minutes later.
I really hope the nurses are nice to you.
South East Queensland in Australia (the Gold Coast area, south of Brisbane) has everything that Sydney and Melbourne has, but it’s significantly cheaper , and the weather is consistently better.
But Australia was one of the most locked down countries during the pandemic.
Same with Perth.
I hate Melbourne. I was born there and always wanted to leave, even as a child. It always gives me bad vibes. I like SEQ but if I move back to Aus anytime soon, I want to go to Hervey Bay. Far enough away from all the city shite and you're not invaded every weekend and school holidays by Brisbane people, but still close enough you can drive there if you need to.
@@Mmwindowcleaners yes it was. I would argue QLD was the least worst in terms of restrictions but the point that was being made is that SEQ is better than Sydney and Melbourne by most metrics. Personally I would escape to Florida if I ever got the chance…
@@anne-marie5135 I would agree
Paying 39% income tax and 15% VAT in Auckland and getting nothing for your money isn't a great deal. Sure it's a nice city, traffic sucks, real estate is very expensive compared to other international cities, and it's a hell of a long way from everywhere. I run a business across 150 cities and live in Auckland. Fortunately I can live from home, but I'm looking to get out.
Australia it would be the best country in the world, but the Government and Police State ruin it. They treat you like a criminal, and taxes are too high
Totally agree
Amen...Australia has everything....weather, scenery, flora, fauna...the Govt is brutal..
Australia was the best....not anymore....high tax and too expensive....Monaco better value,no tax and houses cheaper....
@@thylacine1004 apartments are cheaper in Monaco.?
If you are a doctor, don’t go where healthcare is cheap. You will be paid peanuts and be stuck burning your savings. World is different for different professions. Make your own criteria on Excel and score points as per impact on your needs.
People who are leery of SE Asia, please just take a trip to Malaysia. While I find Kuala Lumpur the capital to be too urban like my San Francisco, I love many smaller cities within Malaysia. Penang is highly, highly underrated. Some people may disagree, but when I am asked how is Penang (Island) I honestly say imagine Oahu, Hawaii but cheaper and with way better food.
Is Penang walkable? Are there nice areas away from traffic to walk for 3-4 miles?
As someone from Sydney, the biggest issue is isolation and extremely high property prices. 1.6million for the average home in Sydney. Remote job allowed me to leave Australia and i have no plans on returning. If you have a remote job, South East Asia, Eastern Europe are your best options for tax and lifestyle. Latin America is too unstable and has chaotic polluted cities. Canada is a joke, western Europe has high taxes
What do you do for the remote job please, I have hard time getting a job, much less getting it remote
@@shapourdashtpour63 digital marketing
Yea please answer, what is your remote job?
Also if you can share how do you get qualified for it.
Digital marketing and self taught
I really like your take on those listings of the "Most Livable Cities." Those lists are probably prepared by journalist who use "Google" for research, and never have actually traveled all over the world, lived in different cities and paid taxes in different countries.
The liveability index is not about the wealthily millionaires, its about the average person, the level of quality of life that an average person receives in a given city. That's because rich people can maintain good quality of life anywhere, so it's pointless.
Agreed...I don't think he understands what this list is.
I don't like any of those top cities for living. I wouls rather prefer Eastern Europe or Asia any day 😅
Damascus is an amazing city full of history, ancient architecture, amazing food, safe, and very friendly people.
Hi, the best place to stay is Nizhnyaya Yeltsovka in Novosibirsk. In the morning and evening, walking through the pine forest to the train, a boost of energy every day.
Otlichno!
You can walk when it's -70F???
@@GordoGambler The temperature you specified happens extremely rarely, maybe once every five years and lasts no more than a week. Otherwise, it is quite comfortable.
no yeti or bigfoot?
Yeah, but then you write a comment on the Internet and you’re thrown in jail😂
Your analysis of these cities is by far better than those leading publications .
Thanks
There's almost no violent crime in Denmark!
The health care is free for foreigners as well.
June, July, and August - I wouldn't want to be anywhere else in the world.
Gaza is not in the list
Yes like it doesnt exist. It should be on the top of the worst.
I think you got confused, this is not the terror cities list
@@Blackcat35938little do you know , after life is where it begins. These are deaths of the chosen people. Remind me once we both are in graveyard and both of will take a peak to really see and understand the gaza people. True facts that's not spoken
'Most liveable cities for Anglos'.
...and for Men. NO place on this planet where a woman minding her own business can't be *preyed upon/raped.*
I want out of Canada, its terrible 😢
Why is Canada so terrible?
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@@கோபிசுதாகர் High taxes, oppressive government, weak parental rights.
I have seen plenty of videos recently by people wanting to get out of Canada. Must be a reason!
@@paolo3349 I can understand high taxes and oppressive government, but what is the parental rights?
I live near Osaka, it's nice and good for some but taxes are high and business opportunities are limited. But thanks for pointing out the good food!
Dhaka- city of extremely friendly and warm people. Dunno about living, but I’d love to visit
People are great in Bangladesh but Dhaka drops down in livability due to horrible traffic jam, petty crimes, air and noise pollution, corruption, slow beaurucracy, slow internet, unstable electric grid etc. It's still a great place to invest due to rapidly improving economy and infrastructure.
When I think of liveable I think of quality of life. Most if not all of the top 10 cities are extremely expensive to live in, with a a climate that many would not like. Some cities that come to minds (for expats at least on a temporary basis) that are very liveable include: Brisbane, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Dubai, Hong Kong, Bangkok, Tallinn. Calgary being in the top 10 is enough to show you how bogus the list is!!!
Hong Kong is the best, as long as you have money and don't make noise about the mainland government. Apart from that , it's amazing place (been here 8 years, love it)
Dictator Dan was the premier of Victoria and was responsible for the lockdown of the state and the draconian control of Melbourne its capital. I live in Sydney and watched in horror as I saw my friends in Melbourne suffer, lose their business and their freedom. They will never forget or recover. I am considering whether I remain in Australia and am looking at options to relocate my business and family abroad. Freedom and a country that is not woke is of interest.
Vienna is awesome … the high culture took my breath away… amazing churches, architecture, classical music all over the place, art galleries.. phew
Do you go to church every day or watch a 3 hours opera every week?
@@norbiberman7363 I would like to watch/ listen to opera twice a month, the costumes and music. Wonderful. !!!
@@norbiberman7363 you walk into random pretty dull looking buildings and are suddenly utterly taken aback by the presence of god… every but as beautiful as the Vatican!.. the classical music has a similar impact. There’s a richness to life there that I’ve never seen before in such a small area
Also beautiful parks everywhere with free summer performance events and easy to get around in the public transport.
@@sveletemelody 🎯 ‘oh Vienna’ ❤️
Living in one of those cities that wins top 3 every year, I don't believe it. It's an exercise of buying a place on the list... the councillors from the city lobby and pay the economist magazine for a good ranking, it became part of their city prestige and budget. It's also part of a psychological experiment, saying it's the most livable whilst being the most locked down. It's Melbourne...
100%
The reason you don’t believe it is because you’ve never lived in a third world country so you don’t know how good your life actually is in a western country. For someone like me, who moved from a third world country to a western country I can see that things is still better than in my third world country even tho it is far from perfect. You westerners take your good quality of life for granted. And you guys think life in third world countries are better it’s because you come from a western country with high salaries, so going to a third world country it’s much cheaper for you guys.. but for us living here, it is not cheap at all. Also, grass is always greener than the other side.
Do you really think there’s no lockdown and government overreach in third world countries? In fact, it’s even worse. I agree many western governments handled the covid pandemic in an authoritarian like way, but many other countries have it worse. In Asia, the government was even more restrictive than in the west, touting had to scan a QR code that is tied to your personal information on your phone to enter any premises like shops, restaurants and shopping malls.
@@gytan2221 No you did not witness the tyranny in Australia for the past 4 years
The NHS is the Uk 🇬🇧 is basically collapsed. At this moment you can wait 40 days to see a GP and 6/8montgs to get an MRI . Infrastructure in Uk has also collapsed.
Seriously? 6 months for an MRI? That's insane
@@கோபிசுதாகர் Same in Canada. 8 months for a MRI. It's a joke
@@terryevp4084 so I mean what if someone needs an MRI urgently? Like a car accident victim
@@கோபிசுதாகர் same in Canada. I waited 3 months and it was an emergency potentially deadly. And now I've been waiting for surgery for 7 months
@@கோபிசுதாகர் in those cases, in Canada, it's much faster. if you're in critical condition, it will be done immediately at a hospital. But if you're not actually dying, it's will be months. Even if it's a suspected cancer where every day matters.
Thanks to the US's criminal occupation and sanctions on Syria, Damascus has moved from the top 5 safest cities in 2010, to the most unlivable city in the world.
that is true! so terrible for syria
Add Kyiv to the list for the same cause...
San Francisco might have to fight them for that #1 spot 🤣
So you're attributing Syria's civil war solely to the U.S.? How convenient.
@@MH-et5sn yes it's a proxy regime change war launched on Syria by the US. It was never a civil war. I know this inside out because I am a Syrian.
Sydney and Vanc? List is a joke.
Lived in Van, too - totally overrated imho, horrible Govt, woke af. Similar story to Australia but sans sunshine. Very grey.
Vancouver used to be nice but now it is very disconnected and empty. There are parts that I enjoy tho.
Yeah to many chinese real state companies bought buildings in vancouver it inflated the prices
Woke virus.
@@navigator590 It isn't just Chinese. You would be surprised how many Indians/Punjabis have purchased gas stations, rental apartments, etc. This is a culture that works together to build community wealth. People keep commenting about the Chinese but they are unaware that India has a large population and many area very wealthy.
I live in Asia and i remember as a kid back in the early 90s how awesome cities like New york, LA, SF etc. are and how i wished i could live there or at least pay a visit. Today, they all look like 3rd world cities with high violent crimes, drug addicts, homelessness etc. Not appealing at all. Its really sad how things have got so terrible in the US in just a span of 10 - 20 years...
NYC is that bad, if you ONLY WATCH certain things they show shocking things...I'ts still a world class city. yes homelessness is up but if you have money it's pretty nice, visit.
Appreciate your perspective, Andrew. The sarcasm....priceless! :)
10: No. Infrastructure extremely important for quality of life. Netherlands 🇳🇱 #1.
I agree except The Netherlands weather is not good most of the year.
only if you smoke weed and ride bicycle. i'd take Batumi, Georgia over Amsterdam any day.
Hua Hin Thailand. Absolute heaven!
I agree , i spent a few weeks in Hua Hin last November because I plan to retire there next year .
Hua Hin will be my base to visit every parts of south east Asia .
Great beaches , good infrastructures , nice airport and train station , horses on the beach lol .
I will buy a nice condo with a sea view , it's going to be paradise for me .
I already have a beautiful Thai girlfriend waiting for me to sell my houses and everything else in Canada ,
except for my Porsche and RV for when I will visit friends and family during the SUMMER .
I can't wait to live in this little paradise.
Hua Hin is a great choice for me .
New high speed rail there now right?
The bar must be very low , Hua Hin imo is a dump ..
All due respect any list that has Vancouver as a liveable city for your average person is nuts! It's very liveable for people with tons of money but anyone else it's completely unliveable.
My top 10 livable city list
1. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
2. Bangkok, Thailand
3. Singapore
4. Dubai, UAE
5. Doha, Qatar
6. Istanbul, Turkey
7. Port Louis, Mauritius
8. Panama City, Panama
9. Da Nang, Vietnam
10. Kigali, Rwanda
Agree with this list. Anywhere below the equator and that historically shows value towards humanity without northern country interference is a great place to go.
Have you been to do these cities? Seems like quite the adventure to visit
@@கோபிசுதாகர் yes I have been to all of these cities and also a several more and I live in two of them.
@@கோபிசுதாகர்i was in Kigali last year. Never seen a city so clean, and I don't mean clean for Africa, Kigali makes every western city look dirty.
To each their own, I guess
The best continents to live in: 1) South East Asia, 2) Southeast Europe, 3) Australasia.
I love your video productions. Keep these coming, as they are invaluable for many people. I stay 6 to 8 months a year, on a resort island in The Philippines! I’m 70 and loving life!
As a Canadian I would scratch Vancouver and Toronto off the list! Views are nice in Vancouver city of the sea to mountains to Whistler. Well not worth the trouble of lengthy lines at the hospital waiting up to 4+ hours to emergency doctors! Bring cash if you want to move to Canada.
As a former torontonian who now lives in Paris... like going from 10 percent to 99 percent awesome... Canadian standards of living tanking under Trudeau and fools in Toronto city council
I’m moving to Vienna soon after years of living in Austria. I can tell you all that you can get used to Austria way of living easily. Just be aware that knowing german is a big plus while you’re here and making friends is easy if you socialize. Gyms, sports, concerts, university, jobs, are some places where you can meet people because Austrians don’t tend to be that open at first but once they can open up with you things go better.
I would rather move to Austria or Vienna (since people from here say that they’re different things) rather than going to Switzerland or Germany. Taxes are high but you can tell where all your money goes once you realize that medical services and studies are mostly free. Winters are long but you always can get somewhere else for a while with your whole month of vacation and if salaries aren’t that great for you (although they are enough to pay all your needs here and save extra money) you can always work remotely in USA. Give it a chance! All Nordic countries have worts winters and there is almost impossible to socialize unless you get introduced by someone who lives there or if you grew up there. Not because they have more experience with English it means you can get a long that well over there.
You guys are awesome, you always come up with the best answers to many people's questions. It'd be nice to see you throw a bone to the people making 100k plus. If anyone could do it, it'd be you!
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Don't move to sydney, i live in sydney so I know. It has very unaffordable to live in sydney. A small 1 bedroom apartment rental about A$3,000 per month. To buy the same apartment about A$1MIL . even groceries r really expensive here.
Totally agree with you about Australia. My husband really wanted to visit Australia for years, so during lockdowns we watched a ton of TH-cam and saw how they treated their citizens- he lost all interest.
Great video !!
This guy makes so much sense. He thinks outside the box and definitely makes you think if it's worth paying so much taxes. Thumbs up. I'm British living in South Africa..
Malaga and Valencia beat easily any of the top 10 most livable. Know it by experience.
Most top 10 are either boring (Vienna or Geneva), have a terrible weather, are in the corner of the world (Auckland), are a shithole of drug addicts of Fentanyl and homeless (Vancouver) or are incredibly expensive like Zurich or Geneva again. Not to mention gastronomy or quality of life.
Indeed, spain is great
As a Canadian, the best cities are either in Alberta or Saskatchewan.
Lol no. Maybe mountains in AB or BC but Saskatchewan? Flat prairies for kilometers?
You mean cheapest? Saskatchewan is a frozen suburban wasteland with nothing to do and no way to get anywhere. Calgary is fine, but it is also a cold, sprawling, car-dependant suburbia with not much to do
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Love your ideas, and you express them so elegantly
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I used to live in Toronto and i live close by but i would never live in Toronto again. Too much traffic, bike lanes, high cost of living (rent, high house prices, closing costs and taxes)
What's wrong with bike lanes? We need more of that and less cars.
@@mr.jayjay2401 bike lanes are great as long as they don't take lanes away from cars on heavily congested arterial roads. Also many of these bike lanes are rarely used
@@Mmwindowcleanershow are they rarely used? Are they probably implemented? Are they safe? Sounds like bad city planning. There's whole channels on TH-cam about this if you are interested.
@@mr.jayjay2401 some are very safe some aren't. Some are separated. Some are not. The ones in the downtown core are the most used.
I finally got to Kenora, Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, Q City on my trip in 2019 to 8 provinces and 22states. Rode my CCM 3 speed in those cities. LOL. Easy.
Hotel stay was 4 nights in Markham, so 19 miles to the tower thru North York. Was easy to get around on the bike, but horrible the first morning I drove the loop thru construction everywhere, It's still horrible. I was on sidewalks as much as the bike lanes, like on Warren street after dark. The shore path had TOO MUCH bike traffic. LOL. What I LOVED about Ont. were the majority brick and stone houses and even apartments, but yah 4 million$. AB is the plastic siding and 4 story wooden condo capital of the world, it SUCKS. Now they are building 6 story ones just 2 blocks form me, hell. Edmonton buildings are 99% drop dead UGLY. WTF.
Calgary has horrible freeways and now a ringroad that's a prison wall for bicycles. The hills suck too. Only the Yellowhead road is a nogo in Edm.
I’d argue having a (good) transportation alternative to a car - especially for a perpetual traveler - is a HUGE advantage to living in any place.
Add to that: that place with great transit usually isn’t in the west.
Yes, I agree
The place with great transit generally isn't the west? That's a stretch. You can get literally anywhere in Europe with public transportation.
@byhilliard he probably meant North American, which is god-awful with city planning and transit
@mr.jayjay2401 Well the USA and Canada are far less dense so it makes sense you don't have the same level of public transit as denser countries. But most large American cities have decent public transit. It's just not a pleasant experience to take it. But there aren't a ton of non-western countries that have amazing public transit. Maybe a few countries. His comment just doesn't make much sense. Europe has great public transit. East Asia probably has great public transit. USA and Canada are probably just below those. Then there are a shit load of non-Western countries where public transport is a complete disaster.
yep. In Vancouver it's not very good. It's better than most places in North America but still not adequate for a city of this size and density. And if you want to go out of the city there are no options but to drive.
Andrew's dry humor is worth gold, so good!
As far as infrastructure, no roads (except in Africa) could be worse than the affluent streets (esp. El Camino Real) of the peninsula of the San Francisco Bay Area in California. I'm terrified by car will get a flat in the endless potholes going to and from work. It's absolutely outrageous.
The Economist is a completely discredited publication. This has been known since 2016.
It’s a leftist shit-rag.
It's a ghost of what it was. The number of university degrees granted, especially graduate degrees, skyrocketed in the past 30 years, but the prevalence of really educated people in the workforce dwindled horribly. PhDs are like German mark banknotes in 1923. Kingsley Amis' famous prediction about higher education has alas come true with a vengeance: _"More will mean worse."_
The Economist like all British media is propaganda. I ousted to read economist and tabloid newspapers in flights in and out of UK in the 90s just to laugh at their rubbish. Cannot believe people actually buy these!
Agreed. It used to be a great read. Now, it's just pompous elitist cringe.
It is remarkable how blind publications like the Economist are to the absolute shit show that is the UK. All that colonial loot is down the toilet.
nomad capitalist should publish its own list of, say, top 20 cities.
“Dying in the streets”…I had the misfortune of growing up in Calgary and living there for 25 long years. One typically arctic winter morning I was looking out the rear window of my apartment and saw some emergency vehicles at the building directly across the alley. Some guy had been drinking, sat down and fell asleep on a porch, and literally froze to death overnight. They were carting his rigid corpse away.
Bet that kind of thing doesn’t happen in Kuala Lumpur very often…
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VICTORIA B.C. RIP
How the cities from Canada and Australia are most liveable? In AUS you got jab terror and in Canada you've got drug zombies on the streets😄
because salaries are high, political stability, education, healthcare, you know, things normal people actually care. If you are not the 1% you can't grab a jet and go to Romania or Bahamas or Brazil for extra rich private healthcare, you have to take the local healthcare provided by either the government or company, and for that, for the common people Australia, NZ and Canada are the best
These "Most Livable Cities" lists are conducted by The Economist, a left wing organization. They favor left wing countries with universal healthcare. That's why US cities don't rank high, despite every major US city being better than all Canadian cities on the list. (Better weather, higher salaries, lower taxes, much more affordable real estate prices).
@@Darklight704 Canada healthcare is proposing people assisted suicide so I'm not sure about that. If healthcare is so important I'm surprised Sweden is not there
Melbourne not anymore . Melbourne is full of Indians.
Hahahaha - “The Economist is a left wing organization” 🤣
What about Monaco, in south europe? No tax, very good weather, healthcare, very safe place, full of rich people. 😊😊😊😊😊
Andrew the OG nomad droppin gems 🙌🏼
According to a San Francisco social worker and he was an ex-homeless person, he stated 871 homeless died in the streets from 2022-2023 and over 1400 died in LA during that same time. But the news media ignores this.
Finally an honest and practical advice from someone who knows what he speaks about. Thank you Nomad Capitalism
Thank you Andrew for another informative video. If I was in your tax bracket I would definitely hire your organization. But I live very close to your insight, Thank you so much!
lived in melbourne 20 years ago, for a year absolutely amazing city. Returned 5 years ago for my wedding, overly disappointed. Same with toronto, studied university there, now not great. But now we live in dhaka, and we bloody love it, its chaotic but has so much of a buzz. its all relative i guess in your experience
My list: 1. Porto 2. Madrid 3. Montevideo
Love Vienna. I could live there. Great food in Osaka.
What do you think about Madrid, surprised it wasnt included. Decently good city economy low unemployment safe and good weather
Malaga is also underrated
Covid tyranny too
Too many feminazis
Those lists are indeed laughable, what are the parameters based on? today there are millions of "over the average" earners truly struggling to make ends met. Property (buying or renting) is increasingly more unaffordable in most of the "top countries" , taxes are getting higher, normal food is getting more expensive etc... The supposedly high standard of living in the West is a thing from the past.
In Melbourne we were put under house arrest for 23h a day for months on end. There was also a curfew in place for months. The right of assembly was suspended. People were forced to spend time in hotels in many cases. They were literally held in hotels against their will, which is the text book definition of kidnapping (state sanctioned in this case). Police would use any amount of violence against whoever decided not to comply. Your individual liberty is always at risk in Australia. Always have a plan B and watch your back.
Thanks for these videos. Not only for the valuable information but for confirming my inner most feeling that my home country, the US feels like it’s really declining n many ways. I’m living in Berlin, Germany for the last few years and it has its pros and cons as every place, but besides higher taxes, the quality of life is quite good and knowing my two sons who are 17 and 11 are safe walking to school and even taking the metro at anytime of the day or night is priceless. Virtually no gun violence here and I feel it’s a good place for education. But now I’m looking for an even better country where we can thrive even more. This channel is a fantastic resource, thank you.
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Australia, "I heard you like taxes..." we could be an amazing place but we have no good leadership politically, probably from 1975 onwards.
Toronto is livable ? Rent for a one bedroom is 2500 per month 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Trash city, imo...
@@bpd9660 💯 correct
CANT BREATH THERE!
Is finding an ex-pat community ever a criteria?
Don't hang around expats.
It will make it harder to fit in.
These rankings are almost always Biased toward western countries. They ignore many many things that have everything to do with livability because if they consider them, North American & European countries won't rank high:
Crime rate: Crime is over the roof in UK, US (Have family member there), Canada, Australia (My family members stay there), Germany (Sister lives there)...etc.
Tax: They don't care. It seems the higher the tax, the better it is for the persons rating these countries.
Racism: They also don't care if you as an expat will have high chance of getting attacked verbally or physically based on your race.
Singapore Example: It ticks all the above criteria as livable but it never gets to the top 3. Why? Because they are not a western country. If Singapore was a country in the western hemisphere, it would have been named 100 times as the top countries to live. Top of safety list, top of everything....
In this biased list, probably Osaka is the only true livable place although you can never assimilate in the society there due to their xenophobia.
Singapore is too small to be taken seriously as a permanent lifestyle base, plus all the locals complain about life there being too restrictive. Also it is a massive nanny state being a former British colony and also taking on the worst traits of the CCP with their close ties to them with jab mandates, surveillance etc. Great place to visit and do business though, just not for long term living.
Too small to be taken seriously? Comparing Singapore to CCP? Are you high? Come out of your basement and do some research about Singapore.
@@EricHa-lt9oc CNA Singapore the CCP proxy mouthpiece, echoing all CCP talking points. Too small, I regularly do business there and many friends there, they all hated the fact they were trapped there during lockdowns and no chance to get into nature. Nowhere to drive. No beaches to swim in just swimming pools. Malaysia is much more liveable and there's a reason Singapore was kicked out of Malaysia. It's position as a livable place is especially precarious if another war kicks off, Singapore collapsed in a matter of days in WW2 and the same thing can happen again.
Greetings from one of the least livable cities in the world (Dhaka)
Remember Austria during covid19?
Great topics. Very on point in light of these times
Thanks!
Good food in Osaka I can also vouch for that.
On a Calgary-specific point, like the Province hate the Mayor.
At least for the Mexicans still sold on Canada you can recommend a more conservative education in Alberta.
I agree the Economist data points are not the best
Calgary is a good city, but Vancouver does not deserve to be on the top 10 on that list. Toronto is fine, but their new mayor sounds horrible.
@@sm3675 Agree good city, terribly designed parking fee for people who live near the transit having to pay for their own parking spaces in front of their house. 61% disapprove 30% approve Thinkhq.
Currently, the best city for freelancers are Baku, Azerbaijan. Nice architect, clean city, lovely cuisine, very safe to walk anytime at night, cheap rent, cheap food, cheap living cost, 4-5 star local hotels are also cheap etc. Move there at least for a month.
I couldn’t agree more, this list just reeks of Western self indulgence, arrogance and sheer selectiveness. I am staying in Kuala Lumpur and laugh my head off with my company based in Labuan. Health care at Prince Court Medical Centre, living in downtown KLCC opposite the Twin Towers with impeccable views, great wining & dining, excellent infrastructure, great holiday destinations within 2 or max 3 hours reach and no taxes.
just bought your Audiobook, looking forward to start hearing it, im looking into Moving out of Au and works as a contractor for Au..
That's nice to hear! It's packed with valuable insights and strategies to help you navigate your international lifestyle and make the most of your opportunities abroad.
I lived in California all my life until my late fifties. I have now retired and live in Bangkok. Sometimes it's too hot, the air can be bad at times, lots of traffic. But most of the time it's good. Very livable. Good food that's easy to get, great nightlife, excellent health care, and you will never be cold. Cheap flights all over the region, beautiful islands and interesting places to visit. When I visit America now I am aghast at the cost of things and the horrific political climate. No thanks, I like it where I am.
my dad grew up in Harare when it was Salisbury....i went there briefly for a few days in 2001...interesting experience....there was an article a few days ago where you could get Zimbabwe citizenship and a passport for $5k
Yeah when white British people were stealing enslaving black Zimbabwe.Sure your father had nice time pity natives had terrible time had to wage war on white British to get there country back
Greetings from Tripoli!
You and your business would benefit from taking a more elaborate and informed view on Latam. Especially the more developed cities like Buenos Aires, Montevideo or Santiago. They are so under-covered. Weather, friendliness, architecture, lifestyle, culture and business opportunities.
Who wants to live in a city ? (I agree that if you are under 50 years old then cities are best)
I retired to the Algarve, (Golden triangle) .. The climate is perfect, clean air, no traffic and little crime.
11:08. When Andrew said Australia totally lost the plot in recent years. What does it mean? What happened? He didn't explain it.
most of these top rank cities are as dull as dishwasher 🙄
One man's paradise is another man's hell.
You can describe top 10 is just woke cities… I think this list is based more on how woke you can be there. And any Canadian city in the top is a joke…
most liveable for western women with unlimited means
It’s amazing all the “isms” that are being spewed here.
But the point is obvious that this report is not targeting wealthy people it’s talking about the masses, middle-class and working class people. If you are among the richest, you can be a global citizen and your life is cushy wherever you go.
@@crecasens There are no -isms here, what are you on about?
@crecasens living in canada or australia as a middle class person? U srs bro?
Only one Asian city!!!!! That's b£#@s, quite a number of Asian cities were strong and stable during the pandemic then most western cities!!!! Western people are just looking for low tax or freebies
I think when they determine the most liveable city the health care system should be included. Especially if there is Universal Health Care and no cost if you get very sick.
Could you make a video about Andorra? Now we're having a bit of changes in the tax system
Is it true that a lot of spanish influencers have moved there beacuse of "low taxes"?
@@francisemanuelrosa7388 correct, from around 8 years, spanish youtubers and influencers have come here for tax purposes. Spain personal gains tax is an up to 48%, here it's 10%. Since it shares it's culture with Spain, and it's very close they choose it as a destination to live
@@bocatadejamon292 Wow, what a difference, now I see the reason hahah
In July I'm traveling to Pamplona to see family, I hope I can visit Andorra and the Pyrenees
@@francisemanuelrosa7388 You're more than welcome here! I hope you'll enjoy the views of this small country :)
Kerala in India is a really great place for digital nomads.
1. Tropical
2. Beaches, Backwaters, Hillstation
3. Best Healthcare in South Asia
4. Most livable cities in India
5. Highly educated society
6. Affordable and quality real estate
7. Lowest crime rate and best policing
8. Secular and friendly people
I was a travel nurse for several years in the US. Every year industry websites would publish a list of the best cities for travel nurses. Consistently the best cities were NYC, LA, Chicago, etc. These are horrible choices, most travel nurses would not consider. When I dug into the rational, it was based on walkability, average education of the citizenry, ballet/theater/symphony, parks per mile, bicycle culture, farmers markets, etc. I was a medical mercenary; I didn't give a shit how many Michelin rated restaurants a city had. "How much do I get and what do I have to do for it?" I am always skeptical of such lists.
Same, used to live in Paris. Realised I hadn't been to the theatre for about 15 years, couldn't afford it, got home from work after they started anyway. Visited most of the museums I'm interested in 20 years ago.
I currently live in Zurich and it's great, but if I was already rich I would not live here hahah but even within that top 10, my gf is from Denmark I'm from Argentina we live in Zurich, sometimes she gets annoyed at having to handle things like healthcare herself because she isn't used to it, but I pay 18% on a 6 figure salary and ond only 5k in healthcare per year in the worst cases, in Denmark I'd be paying tens of thousands for much worse service