The LEAST Liveable Iconic Cities In The World
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He's right about new York city. Average person can barely live here and it's getting Less and less worth it to live here
So you say…
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I’m Asian and won’t go back. We are flat out not safe with all the Basketball-Americans on the subway.
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I understand that to people from San Francisco and New York City the prices in Vancouver don’t seem THAT bad. But consider the average amount of money somebody earns there and it’s pretty disturbing.
Even worse than any of these world class examples are the big cities in China in terms of earnings to home price ratio.
Oh yeah the housing prices are ridiculous in China
I had no idea it was this bad in Chinese cities 😐
@@kora4185 Houses cost 30 times the avarage salary. This is more than 5 times worse than Vancouver.
@@kora4185 you could even see it in the video average price of a house in Shanghai is the same as Singapore, considering that Singapore gdp per capita is 10 times bigger.
I live in Melbourne and it’s awesome. But house prices are getting ridiculous. Almost as bad as Sydney. But you can always rent it out in the outer suburbs
The list is:
6) London
5) Paris
4) Los Angeles
3) Hong Kong
2) New York
1) Venice
Can’t believe Bangkok isn’t in the li- oh, right, Doctor Chatchart, yeah, the gigachad, ok.
Cities in the Western hemisphere are still '' Liveable '' compare to the Middle East such as Cairo or cities in India such as Mumbai and New Delhi; those Capital cities are densely overpopulated and poorly managed with heavy traffic jams and air pollution that is unbearable to live in !!
Yeah, Los Angeles' air is cleaner than Mr Clean when compared to Jakarta or Beijing.
@@honeycomblord9384 Beijing air pollution really has decreased in recent years
@@samueldeoliveira7113 I was comparing Beijing right now to Los Angeles, not Beijing 10 years ago.
Unfortunately due to the high number of migrants from India or China the western cities are becoming like third world ones.
but european people arent as welcoming as those undeveloped cities.
Paris and London are the greatest cities to visit but I could never afford to live there
Paris doesn’t have exactly "the same climate" as London, it gets much hotter in summer especially at night
And It's less "grey".
It has the same climate as London. Both are Oceanic.
@@henrytudor8537 climate classifications dont mean shit. Especially when flora and fauna are considered. Paris is significantly warmer than london despite the same calssification.
@@iaw7406 The mean temperature in London is 11.7°C while Paris is 12.8°C. The hours of sunshine is 1674.8hrs and that of Paris is 1717hrs. Paris is warmer and sunnier but only slightly such that it is actually insignificant. Both overall have very similar climates.
@@henrytudor8537 there is latitude changes where Paris is more south compared to london so paris is warmer but still somewhat similar climate
Paris is actually very livable ! As long as you earn at least 3500€ a month (~3700$) you can really live a great lifestyle, cultural and relaxed
wake up, euro costs the same as dollar nowadays
@@Plechful okay I believe you, that doesn’t change the 3500€ minimum wage to enjoy the city (which we basically all accept here in Paris)
$3700 after tax?
As is London. Both are excellent cities to live and work in (Having lived and worked in both).
@@PocketInfinite no before tax
Toronto faces the same issues as discussed here: pathetic salary to cost of living ratio, rising inequality, inadequate transport system, extreme heat and cold, rising crime, homelessness, lack of adequate mental health support and an insane, highly visible drug problem.
Global cities are great to live in if you're rich and the problems of those around you, particularly those in the lower class, don't apply to you. Capitalism, baby: gotta love it!
Inequality is a non-issue. People are just not the same and therefore not going to achieve the same amount of success.
That would be Vancouver which was why my brother had to move back to Montreal.
At least Toronto & Montrèal are starting to take transportation infrastructure seriously now. I don't know the politics of Montrèal, but Toronto's toxic politics setback 20 years of progress, and stagnated until we're in a crisis.
Socialism is even worst. Look at countries like Venezuela and other South American countries. Don’t blame something you don’t totally understand
Swiss cities like Basel, Zürich and Lucerne or Geneve face NONE of those issues. Quite the opposite, they are even getting better. All thanks to, guess what: A healthy mix between socialism and capitalism.
Toronto is overrated , the is alot of alternatives in canada
One correction: these cities aren’t loud, dirty and congested as a result of population density but rather planning. Cars are responsible for most of the mouse pollution in cities, as well as pollution. Congestion is due to the fact that most “public” spaces by square feet in almost all of these belongs to cars and thus tourists and residents are funneled into the tiny amount of space that’s actual open to them. Cities have been built for cars not people and banning cars completely within large cities (with the obvious exceptions) coupled with good transit infrastructure would make any of these cities unrecognizable in a good way and way more livable. (Venice being the obvious exception here)
With Venice, however, due to climate change, they are constantly flooding and at risk for sinking in the next couple of centuries. Even then people will reserve the right to travel freely whenever they want and how. Public transportation is still reliant on other people. I would much rather have my own car to drive anytime in the night then to be reliant on government transportation to take me somewhere. Not to much that public transportation in big cities does that translate to smaller town and areas close by. Most times you require a car if you’re traveling outside the city.
Suburban people pollute more per capital than urban dwellers.
@@shirley444 again that’s a design not a constant. There are very few places in the world that have good public transit infrastructure but when done well it is almost always faster and more efficient than cars. It can also work in less dense population areas and where there are truly remote places you can build car sharing libraries at the end of transit lines. The planet can’t survive our current car dependency and infrastructure even if we switch totally to electric
@@AlexCab_49 true!
LA is the only one really like that, Literally one of the main points this guy makes about the cities is getting crammed like a sardine into a train at 104°, sweating up on complete strangers, yeah I’ll take my car with AC, except LA they could use trains. You wanting to ban cars makes you sound like an one of those Amsterdam fangirls
You missed Lisbon, crazy expensive and people earn like 1k per month
Still cheaper than Montevideo...
New York is actually one of the safest big cities in the world. Even with the recent rise in crime rates it's still pretty safe relative to the rest of the country.
Im sure there are but compared to most other larger cities and mid sized cities NYC is very safe. Last year saw one of our highest rates of murder in a decade which was 5.5 per 100k people. This compares to the US average of 7 homicides per 100k. That being said the perception of danger is more acute here because we’re all packed together and most of us walk or take transit instead of driving which exposes us to everything. So when crime happens we’re more aware of it even though statistically we are significantly less likely to be victims of it.
@@Yort781 also crime always makes it to big news; so the largest city in the US by a huge margin (considering only the city limits) makes more appearance in the media; making it look like crime is more common, while taking into account per capita crime, it is not. The same can be said about London or Paris; or maybe any country with a dominant population center that grabs the attention. Maybe in more decentralised European countries like Germany, Italy or Spain l, where more cities get equal attention, it might be a bit different. (not saying the US is centralised; but NYC to me seems to be grabbing more attention when it comes to general news; i saw lots of coverage from DC on american news, but more often due to politics, not crime)
It definitely isn't one of the safest in the world, maybe in the US but America isn't the world.
its like 15th in the world lmfao what are u talking about
ive heard if you make friends with the right people and don't mind roommates its actually pretty easy to live there.
Actually, you don't necessarily need a car in New York. It depends on what part of the city you live in. I've done fine without a car in NYC for 30 years.
They said that “unlike New York you need a car in Los Angeles” insinuating that you don’t need a car in New York
Prefiero vivir en mi rancho que en Nueva York. 😒
@@Halcon_Sierrenonah, NY is better than latin america.
I think every city has its advantages and disadvantages.
As a German, I can't understand the international hype about our cities.
Cologne has (male) street prostitution right next to the Cologne Cathedral. Berlin has a lot of homeless people, the government district and some trendy areas are okay, otherwise everything is run down and I've never been treated as unfriendly as I was there...oh wait, one city was worse: Munich. The tourist areas are okay, but a bit outside....oh boy. It's also bloody expensive there. There are people who go to work full time and still live under a bridge.
Hamburg is ... interesting. Slightly dirty and sloppy everywhere, the nightlife is great and somehow a bit dangerous, but there are insanely nice areas as well - where the rich live. Normal earners can hardly afford a decent flat there.
People from the whole world travel to the Oktoberfest, get drunk and a lot of tourists misbehave, and many foreigners carry the cliché that Munich represents virtually all of Germany around the world. I live in the North West and we have much more in common culturally with the British (our local cuisine is just as awful, and we drink a lot of tea, haha!).
Maybe you just have to have grown up in a big city to be numb to the disadvantages. I'm a country bumpkin, not a redneck or such like, but I hate big crowds and dirt, noise and stench. Of course I like to visit big cities because I'm curious, but I'm also happy to leave again. And even if I were filthy rich or inherited a flat there - I wouldn't want to live there.
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"Cologne has (male) street prostitution right next to the Cologne Cathedral" sounds lika a win to me 🤷
The bad food is probably our fault (Brits) as I think we used to be in a union of some kind with Hanover?
But i get that Bavaria is very Bavarian.
Hamburg is fine and all, but what about Cheeseburg?
Everything he said about NYC is true. Hell, public transportation and parking could be a 10-15 min video by itself lol
Parking? you don’t move to new york to drive, literally every single place in the entire country is car-dependent, nyc is the one acception that’s closer to a European or Asian walkable city. If you’re worried about parking then live literally anywhere else besides NYC, I guarantee you people don’t move to ny to park.
@@taihalpern7342 Yes while it’s true that having a car in New York City is not a “necessity” but a lot of people DO need a car which can make like difficult.
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Because NYC was built well before the advent of the car.
@@shauncameron8390 and that’s a good thing. Cities that were mostly built before cars like NYC, Paris, Rome, etc are so much better than cities that were built mostly after like Houston, Phoenix, or Detroit
@@taihalpern7342 Not everywhere in NYC is Manhattan you know. Queens has a ton of single family homes that aren't close to any subway station, the people there will need a car. Also NYC isn't the only city where this is possible, Boston, Philly and Chicago are also good cities to move to if you hate driving.
Well, within Australia, the worst has to be Sydney, for similar reasons to the featured list. Shit public transport, congested, high cost of living. Brisbane and Melbourne are both much more livable.
To be fair, lots of these cities share problems of having too many tourists, with Venice being the most extreme example given how few people live there and how small the area is. And to be fair, New York City crime doesn’t look that bad when it is counted on per capita basis, as it should be; it is still one of the safer major cities in the US. Otherwise it is an interesting video; basically if you have lots of money, you’d be fine. I also don’t find london that expensive (outside of rent) when a person knows how to save. I live in Glasgow, but when I went to a supermarket to buy food, the prices were more or less the same in London. The same goes to the type of food I would usually eat when just eating at some local restaurant/takeaway. Obviously I might be overlooking something, it is hard to get a jest of it unless you live somewhere long term. I would also point out that New York, LA, Hong Kong, London, San Francisco, etc. are nominally quite expensive for outsiders, sometimes even within the same country; let me give an example - flats in Prague/Bratislava are also very expensive in for a regular Czech/Slovak guy, however if you are a British person on London salary, or an American on New York salary; and you go there for a trip, or even live, but you keep your New York salary; it seems cheap; pretty much the rest of the world with few exceptions seems cheap. If you live in Prague on Prague salary, it might be to you nearly as expensive as to a Londoner London, but then London looks even more expensive if you are there on Prague salary. I do think this contributes to the image of London being expensive, because an anglophone person might not know the local wages and realities of cities like prague when visiting, because lots of things are cheaper for them.
I would welcome a video of iconic cities that are not that hard to live in, probably Prague would be mid-tier; while a city like Vienna would be top tier thanks partly to their housing policies. Tokyo is also not that bad; I lived in Japan (not in Tokyo though), but had friends there and it did seem fine.
Even though Copenhagen isn't exactly considered in the iconic list, I would still add that city to very livable, part due to the policies in Denmark in general, like I grew up there in a very good area I would say overall and we didn't starve even when my mother was still studying and a lone mother to 2 kids.
Did we live like kings? Nahh but we got by just fine.
I would say alot of cities around Scandinavia in general are very livable or even just alot of the nordic countries.
Ofcourse that doesn't mean the way these countries and cities manage to give everyone a good life will work in every other country but I'm sure there still are notes these not so livable cities can take from many of the livable cities.
As a Praguer i can say you're absolutely right (at least according to statistics/haven't lived anywhere else, only travelled). Even though i would say that living here is still absolutely doable and not really as expensive as everyone tends to say. Here average monthly salary is around 40k czk and a normal rent for a 2 bedroom flat (even in a more desirable neighborhoods) is like 12k czk. Considering groceries and services are pretty cheap here, even with lower paying job you still have plenty money extra to save or spend. I guess most of the people complaining about prices are the ones with poor control over their spendings or those having expensive hobbies. Also there are new housing policies being implemented and lots of affordable housing being build so i hope it will get even better. Overall i find living here fucking fantastic and plan to live there my entire life. Have you been to Prague? If not i hope you'll come some day and like it :) Greeting from a hearth of Europe!
@@janhorehled6492 I have been there many times, it might be one of the cities I visit most often; I like it for a visit, I have lots of friends there as I am from Slovakia and even after moving away, I spent lots of time with Czechs and Slovaks; it is my favourite place in Slovakia and Czech Republic, and if I was limited only by places in these 2 countries, I'd move there. Otherwise it is not really for me
You speak as if everyone who lives someplace has the ability to command whatever pay they can bargain. If it weren't for all the regular plebs making modest incomes these cities wouldn't be able to exist. Should someone who was born in a large city and doesn't want to play those games be forced to live like a peasant just to stay in their own neighbourhood? Regular houses that 50 years ago were built for labourers to raise 3 or 4 kids in are now out of reach to anyone but finance and media people. It's become a status symbol not even to own property in a city but to even be able to have kids at all. The only neighbourhoods now you see kids in are rich ones. It's obscene.
I enjoyed my trip to Venice, And trust me it’s not bad, as an Italian I think I had a very good time there
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I feel like Rome should be in this list. Although it is probably my favorite place I've ever visited, the complete chaos that is that city with the sorms of tourists and the massive population, very bad metro compared to Paris (I've lived there for 5 months and the metro is god tier in connectivity), Rome is such a nope city
Could you please make a video on Most liveable iconic cities
i do know that Wien/Vienna actually is one of *those* cities.
Copenhagen and Stockholm maybe
San Francisco must certainly be considered. Being the location of the worlds largest tech hub (silicon valley), it is an eye wateringly expensive place to live. It is also very overcrowded, and the traffic on any given day is just simply nuts...
This was so so interesting! I am curious about cities that would have a perception of not being liveable but actually are - can you do a video on that too?
I've heard for example that Dubai is surprisingly cheaper than what most people think. Yeah, sure the crazy luxury that gets all the attention is super expensive. But the average city where most people live, is far from being as expensive as L.A or New York. It can be as cheap as Eastern Europe.
@@eduardof7322 On the other hand, Dubai's weather is beyond extreme for most people. It's ok in the winter, but any other time... jeesh.
@@19Szabolcs91 I live in the Southern part of Australia and my goal is a summer house in Tasmania, so being in the Middle East would do my head in.
I like how you use different, appropriate, music for introducing each city :)
I used to live in London and I now live in Rome. I honestly used to prefer London by a large margin so I definitely feel like Rome, which is often romanticised, deserves a good spot on this list. For starters, it's got a massive problem with garbage disposal. The streets are filled with garbage and almost all dumpsters overflow for most of the week. There are probably about 4 or 5 rows of dumpsters in a 500 metre radius from where I live and it's just horrible because they're all like this. Another issue is transportation. According to a survey, Rome is the 2nd city where people spend the most time in cars (Bogotá is number 1). Buses here aren't always reliable and the city, despite its large size, doesn't have a subway system. So, most people have to own a car. However, the car infrastructure here is horrible as well. So, no matter what you do, most of the time, it's gonna take a while to get across Rome. The city is also incredibly hot during Summer. Thankfully, temperatures are starting to go down but most days, you'll see 35°C and above. We've also been getting a massive drought in this country. And by massive, I mean that sunk WW2 vessels are suddenly being discovered in rivers because of how shallow they've become. We've also had quite a few fires here
Edit: btw, I forgot we do have a subway system. However, for most of the population, including me, it's inaccessible. There just aren't enough lines. Having said that, most subway stations are very run down, even in the city centre
actually there is a subway system in rome
@@gree4745 I honestly didn't even know we had one and I've been living here for 4 years but I don't think many people know about it anyway. I've checked and there are so few lines only located around central Rome. I don't have a station anywhere near where I live. I have been to Roma Termini to go to other parts of the country but never to travel within Rome. I've used the tram before, which is somewhat popular, but never the train
@@Ricky911_ i'm sorry, how on earth can you even function for years in or around Rome and not know that it has a subway system and it's even building another line now? How come you are complaining about public transport without using it?
@@marinaalinescu1660 it's not possible for anyone to use it. Trust me, as someone who actually lives here, it's about as useful as Los Angeles's buses and maybe even more useless. I've seen the lines. Calling that a subway system is just disgusting
I found Rome to be shockingly dirty. Some of the trams I've seen in Rome were just mangled rusted up 1960s trams. I was really shocked. Subway was fairly dirty smelly and all in all a shocker altogether. Trash everywhere, smell of urine etc etc
I think £50,000+ average annual salary for London is not the median value for most inhabitants, I would say it's closer to £35,000
Definitely Tel Aviv.
Last year it was ranked as the world’s most expensive city, it also has stupidly high rent and housing prices, and everything in Israel is overall very expensive
Also the city is ugly and there is no metro just plain bus and the weather is horrible too
@@playerxz6485 Tel Aviv is gorgeous
and the security as well. literally no reason to live there except just because youre a jew. and thats a silly reason too.
This was a riveting watch!! Wasn’t expecting such drama. Glad to have stumbled upon this channel.
Can’t wait to subscribe and view more fascinating content. Really encourages a person to think twice about the aspirations they may have, of potentially living in any of the places mentioned in the video.
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Agree 100%. My Top 10 Cities to visit and Top 10 Cities to live in are vastly different lists.
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I'm from New York and I can confirm how astronomically ridiculous it is to be able to buy a house here. I don't live in the proper city lines, however even in the metro area where I am house prices still average around 600k. Mind you, the crime rate is much lower here, but overall the house prices are dragging NYC down. The city itself has also gotten much more dangerous in the past few years, and I've always been taught to stay out of empty subway cars, because this usually means something bad has just gone down there. Speaking of the subways, they can go from everyone having a seat to some people not even having a pole to grab onto in a matter of minutes. So overall, the city is a great place to visit, and seeing it firsthand I would be fine living there as things are starting to potentially get better, but for some it may not be for them.
Very cool video!
1:08 "5. Singapore, Malaysia!? Huh? Singapore became independent of Malaysia in 1965, more than half a century ago!
So what is actually a highly livable city? Calgary? Vienna? Copenhagen? These cities are surely very livable, but they do not offer nearly as many amenities as the big cities listed in the video. So I think it depends on what people really want. Either big city life with attractive skyscrapers, fancy lifestyle, lots of entertainment, electric nightlife, cuisine from around the world, high paying corporate jobs, etc. or live in a small-medium city with less pollution, less crowds, less trash on the streets, less crime probably, etc. It is one's decision to stay in a big city or more to a smaller one (except if you are from a country that offers you no option, like Singaporeans :( )
Vienna is the most liveable city in the world and has skyscrapers, cuisine from all around the world, the public transport works perfectly and you can live in Vienna without earning 5000 € a month. 2 million inhabitants isn't small at all considered that you, living in new york for example, won't even explore 30% of the whole city if you live there. So 2 million, 6 million or 18 million does not change much.
Singapore is not as unliveable as the cities listed in the video, but also not as liveable as the cities you mentioned here
Having all these attributes of Big City Life doesn't mean that the city itself should be trash lol
I'd swap Paris for Rome. In Rome there are more scammers, public transport is shit and Paris has fantastic green spaces. I really like your video, it would be interesting to see the oposite - underrated cities. For me underhyped are Lisbon, Warsaw, Ghent (or any town in Belgium, it's so beautiful there), Bordeaux maybe too
Okay Fellas Its Time To Make Other Cities ICONIC, Just To Join LEAST Livable Cities Rankings
Rio de Janeiro is another example
I really couldn't care less about even VISITING these cities let alone live in them. I've only been to Los Angeles once and that was good enough for me.
If we have to compare Paris and London, the two major cities in Western Europe, London is more expensive. Properties and rents are generally more expensive in the British capital than its French counterpart but it is the price of public transport that is very different. Full fare on the Paris métro: 2.10€ when you will have to fork out £6.30 (7.13€) for a single journey in London if you pay cash.If you have a Oyster card (that you have to buy first, card can be reloaded with money) or pay by debit/credit card, then the fare is £2.50 (2.83€). On top of that it is more expensive to ride the tube in London at certain times of the day ( peak times in mornings and afternoons) and depending of the destination. Zones 1&2 have the same tariff and all the other zones (up to 9) will have different price. You can ride the entire network of the Paris métro with one ticket at one price.
As for iconic, but unlivable cities, San Francisco should be on the list, with its insanely high cost of living, many homeless and dirty streets.
SF is actually pretty livable, as long as you don't go downtown. Great weather (never hot), Parks & Beaches everywhere, Good Sports teams, Views, diversity, Never boring. Minuses are traffic, parking, liberal politics, density (what city doesn't have these), crime is related to the politics. The high cost of living is shared by most desirable places. Worth it IMHO. I've lived in the Midwest, & East Coast. Ca. still very desirable in comparison.
SF makes me very sad because it's such a cool city and it could be amazing if it wasn't for their stupid liberal government. It's way too expensive, especially with it's current living conditions. The homeless problem is out of control, there's tents in every corner and shit all over the sidewalks, and it can get very sketchy at night, and it has some very dangerous neighborhoods like the Tenderloin.
There are very livable neighborhoods in SF. Sunset, Richmond etc. The weather is pretty perfect if you like cool weather all year around. Just stay out of Downtown. Yes, the cost of living is high. But worth it. IMHO. Just stay out of the Loin.
@@Kodeb8 There are many great areas in SF. Unfortunately the media (fox News) like to concentrate on the Tenderloin. The Sunset, Richmond, Mission, Marina Districts (To name a few) are great places to live although expensive. But, most desirable cities are in the same boat. Diversity, Great Food, great weather, friendly/helpful people, awesome views, amazing architecture, are all here. Stupid/liberal politicians, esp. a do nothing Mayor, NIMBYISM, & woke politics are some things that need to change. It will happen as many residents are fed up. Getting rid of the Woke DA in a recall is just the first step. Still worth visiting here. But, careful parking & walking. Stay in the safe neighborhoods.
@@Kodeb8 The housing problem in san francisco and west coast cities in general isn’t really a governmental problem tho they don’t really help it . Many people in these cities purposely manufacture high property prices to gain wealth . they do this by protesting any new dense housing and it makes the problem worst as because of that housing doesn’t meet demand. on the contrary working class people don’t want to be priced out of there neighborhoods so they too protest new projects. it creates a bad cycle. Now when it comes to homelessness California has a lot of homeless immigrants or people who are homeless that travel from other states to California as they offer better services to homeless people than other states. Also the housing crisis doesn’t help either.
I live in a tourist town. "miami". I can't take it anymore I'm moving. everything expensive. many homeless. drugs
It’s going that way in the world in general. The elite get richer while the masses swelter
To be fair, London isn’t that far from the sea. It’s an hour on the train to Brighton, which is only how far most LA residents drive to the beach.
I live in Stockholm, Sweden property prices are outrageous here, the air conditioning often seems to not being working on public transportation
We get hot in the summers it can get to 33 to 35°C which is 91.4 to 95°F and in winters it gets below freezing.
In june the sun sets at after 10 pm in summers and rises at like 4 am here. In December the sun never rise up before 9 pm and sets at 3pm.
The problem of Stockholm is not only rent prices but access to housing as a foreigner. You’re left alone in the private market with outrageous prices and short-term contracts, while Swedes are getting good, affordable housing anywhere in the city. This would be scandalous in other countries tbh.
@@DavidVargasCarrillo to have a realistic chance to rent an apartment you need to be in que for at least 20 years and I think that is outrageous. Btw the longer you pay to be in the que the higher the change to get an apartment to rent here in Sweden. You need to pay every year to keep the place in the que as well
@@MegaWunna That is it. 20+ years of waiting to rent an apartment is unrealistic for any foreigner coming to Sweden. It will only benefit Swedish nationals that can be inscribed by their parents when they’re kids. And given the tendency of Sweden immigration policies, I’m not sure this is actually an inconvenience for the politicians…
I live in LA. I was shopping at a Marshall’s and the security guards had guns. Across the street I saw an apartment complex with a for-rent ad. I shit you not-$3,000/month for a studio. This was in hollywood, in a somewhat seedy area.
I, too, am from near the coast. I grew up in Delaware and now I live on a boat on the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland. I won’t even consider moving anywhere further than about 50miles from an ocean!
Toronto and Vancouver are also incredibly expensive. Houses there average over $1,000,000, and the homes are small. Good video though! You earned my subscription :)
Not only does this not enumerate any kind of comparable measure or criteria for "liveability", it seems that one common sentiment expressed for each of the cities mentioned is "it's too crowded". That's the whole point of a city!
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LA is a pretty nice city with the weather and all of the great activities you can do(camping, hiking, swimming, amusement parks,lots more) prolly one of the most fun cities in the world. And then there’s the crime,homelessness, the car-centric roads that have ridiculous traffic, and those DAMN PRICES DEAR GOD
😩😂😂true! It’s crazy the wealth next to abject poverty is pretty disturbing. Native CA it’s changed so much
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Hollywood and Beverly Hills compared to Compton and East LA.
This might be an unpopular opinion, and I might be the only one, but I found Budapest (Hungary's capital) more beautiful and enticing than Paris. It was cheaper, the architecture was breathtaking, the people were genuinely nice (I found Parisians rude, to be frank), safer, and less polluted. It's very underrated. I would choose it over Berlin, Prague, Rome, Milan, Frankfurt, Zurich, Madrid and Vienna. All Cities I've been to. Only Luxemburg is better for me, IMO if not for its sky-high price.
Budapest is a great city, very underrated
Hey thank you, I'm a native from Budapest! Here I have a story tell. I've moved to London from Budapest and I'm a lot more satisfied though still not happy. Budapest is a marvel when a tourists visit but for the people living there most entertainment is unaffordable and even if the people seem to be nice to you with fairly good English we totally have zero trust in one another and are horrible at socializing among each other. Also the people of Budapest are very judgemental and bigoted and bully is rife. It's impossible to have a personality and not getting mocked and ridiculed unendingly.
@@mysteriousDSF this goes to show that looks can be deceiving. Very insightful
@@mysteriousDSF This is something that seems to apply to capitals or largest cities in most countries. They are often the biggest cultural hubs in the country, but the rest of the nation has already seen them and noticed the bad things. A tourist will spend a few nights there on a vacation and mistaken the city as the whole nation. This is why visiting and living in a city are two completely different things. There are thousands of beautiful places I have visited or want to visit, but I wouldn't and I obviously couldn't live in all of them.
The thing is that Paris is not Paris anymore.
Meanwhile, I live in a major "sleeper" city, with a lot to offer that's often left off of the "big tourism" lists... that's very livable - Fort Worth, Texas (the twin city of Dallas). It used to suck, but it's gotten darn good here - from public safety to public transit. Lots of culture, great food, cool history, great Nature. The climate's extreme, though - winter, while overall mild (it was shorts weather last Christmas!), features cold snaps that can get to as low as 0F/-17C and in summer, heat waves to 110F/43C. But it's mild most of the year. Watch out for severe thunderstorms that can spawn tornadoes, though, too, and when it rains, it POURS lol
Yet people all over the world aspire to live in those cities
People are willing to pay for the privilege of living there.
New york rarely ever gets over 30c. Heat waves can happen but that's common any where in the US. The same thing happens over in the pacific northwest, which people usually associate with rain. Also crime jumped across the world the last few years. Statistically new york is much lower on crime than most other large cities. That's coming from the FBI's own findings.
You should talk about Rio de Janeiro. Everybody looks the city by its beautiful beaches, Christ the Redemeer, the Bondinho and et cetera, but in reality it's one of the most violent and unequal cities in the world, with drug and weapon trafficking being normal and the slums, or favelas, being home to many people in poor situations where even food or health care is difficult to get.
As a 20 something who lives 40 mins from London, it's completely unobtainable to obtain property anywhere within 50-60 miles of London. Anyone who is the generation above me has enough capital to get a mortgage, but the prices in London push them to the commuter belt where I live, meaning it has a knock on effect.
My parents bought a 3 bedroom house for 185k, which because of the aforementioned reasons, is now worth nearly 700k.
Agreed on all cities, though I've got soft spots for NY and Hong Kong - both of which have beaches and remote districts to live in. I would add numerous other cities like Bangkok (fun as a visitor but few redeeming qualities AND it is sinking just like Venice)
Boy these Hong Kong apartments are atrocious
Mumbai, Jakarta, Tianjin, etc. are also sinking.
@@yashagrawal88 suboptimal
Good and honest depiction of Paris. The level of insecurity in France is skyrocketing these last years. Just a precision : here in France nobody calls Paris "the city of love", but "the city of lights" (la ville lumières).
Pls add Lagos, Nigeria to the list. Huge towers everywhere but stressful and dangerous.
Lagos is not iconic unfortunately
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Not even close.
new york may suck for westerners but its way better than bengaluru
All of those world cities are starting to look more and more like giant amusement parks in the U.S. Also everyone is wearing the same thing, shorts, sandals and a T-Shirt.
LA's car reliance problem is unfortunately something very common to most North American cities. With LA it's just especially terrible because of how ginormous LA is and the amount of people who live there. I never understood the appeal of wanting to live in a suburb where the only difference is everything is extremely expensive and you have to fight your way through traffic jams to get anywhere. Fuck LA.
tbh only way to get me to visit any of these cities is if someone pays my trip fully.
also as someone from Finland these cities are way too crowded since i lived my childhood in town that had about 2500 people and now this town im living has about 26000 people....
As a Snow☃️ guy London is quite terrifying. 40° ?? i thought that palce is cold. The highest temperature I've survived is about 21° in summer 2020
I live near Rome (about 25 Km or 15 miles to the south) but I work inside the city itself so I must recommend, to whomever wants to move to Rome, to reconsider: the rent in Rome can be quite expensive, gas prices are very high, public transportation, while being quite extensive, is unreliable, the streets aren't very clean and some areas outside the city centre can be quite dangerous. Don't get me wrong, I love this place but it's a way better place for tourists then for locals.
As a french I would say the same apply to Paris. Love Rome and Paris though, but to visit on week-ends, not to live.
Now waiting for the opposite of this video. Which of iconic cities are 'easy' to live in
The venice actual population is actually way smaller
I dont know where the data come from but:
The metropolitan city of venice (practically the province of venice) has 850k inhabitants
The city of venice has 250k inhabitants
The part of the city tourists visit (aka the isles, historic centre) has only 60k inhabitants
Most of the population of venice is actually from the land, in the city (I know the actual name isn't city but i dont know if there's an english equivalent) of Mestre
For some reason the most dominant memory I have of Paris when I visited it in the 90s is the stench. It just smelled bad, garbage mainly. And THANKS for mentioning it, I was afraid I was imaging it.
Video left out all the major cities in South America and Asia. Rio? Mexico city? Mumbai?Singapore? Just to name a few
I'd add: Rome, Naples, Istanbul, Houston, Tokyo, Lagos, Cairo, Moscow, Manila, and most Indian, Afghani, and Chinese cities.
Tokyo was literally under Top 10 most livable cities until 2021 and dropped it's ranking just by a bit this year because of Covid-19 restrictions. So, it's one of the most livable cities on Earth.
Lagos for sure, it is terrible here
@@shrestha_99 hard to believe due to its tremendous city & metro-area size... but then again, they are a very orderly and efficient people, so, yes, I can see Tokyo still being livable despite the huge population.
Tokyo...one of the best places to live....fancy putting it in with Lagos...Manila...Cairo...
Tokyo ?
It is one of the most livable cities.
And Afghanistan even has cities ?
I bet its easier to live in New York than Paris
£53k average salary in London.... ?
I think the mean is way lower than that...
Most people earn less, some people earn a lot more, thus distorting the median value.
@@mysteriousDSF I understand this, just surprised it's that high. My understanding it was closer to £35k
7:26 the median house price in Zurich is 1.32 mil lol
I did little math and interesting thing, you need exactly same amount of month salaries to buy a apartment in Prague or Czechia generaly as in London. 🙂 But I counted with real salary what people really have, not average nonsense, so it will be actually probably more expensive in London if you count with median salary.
Where is Delhi, Mumbai, Calcutta and the rest of the Indian cities?
they're not iconic, at least to a first-world citizen
@@Plechful Oh yeah. I get it now. Thanks.
They’re gonna be iconic soon.
@@bridaw8557 Not in a thousand years. Lol
@@NordicPolestar yeah as you say. Lol
Love from India ❤️💯
1:11 Excuse me, Singapore is an independent country. We’re a city state. We separated from Malaysia on the 9th day of August in 1965. Please issue a correction notice. Thank you.
What about Sheboygan Wisconsin?
You should do more cities, mostly Europeans. Like Berlin, for exemple, a very iconic city. Europe has many of these due to history. I know they're historical and great, but also have a bad side. You could talk about them.
As a German, I totally agree with you there. I have been there several times, certainly for more than two weeks in time, and the historical aspects cannot hide the problems. Berlin is overcrowded, dirty, expensive, ugly in most places and there are many homeless people and drug addicts. At night, even as a man, I didn't feel safe on the streets.
@@eastfrisianguy i live in Berlin and if you avoid some shitty areas it's not that bad
what about dubai mostly near marina and downtown
Watching most of these things, I was like, this is normal. My city is a combination of all these.
I don't see why population density is seen as a problem in this video, especially considering that densely populated cities pollute less per capital than their suburbs, this differential is very apperant among US cities like New York.
Why was it Singapore, Malaysia?
manila philippines, its a tourist destination in the philippines for jeepneys, the mall of asia, tropical paradise, and the locals are known to be the nicest in the world. bad thing is, 39% of people built their house themselves and are usually small because of poverty and 41,000 people live in every sq kilometer. homeless are everywhere and its expensive for the locals. its heavily polluted, the river, the air and traffic is so common, 3 hours to get through a kilometer of land, making such a small city feel so big. crime rate is high, but it depends where you are. Its pretty hot buts its humid, making 31 degrees feel more like 40.
In the Philippines there are talks to move jobs out of the Manila area to New Clark City, Cebu City and Davao city to off set overcrowding in the Manila area. I in fact went to Clark to see some buildings under construction the last time I went there and in fact there is a part of Clark that previously had a district for Air Force members from America became gentrified as a Korean District for Pampanga. Note it will take multiple decades for jobs to really move out of Manila for Clark and Cebu City for livable places within the Philippines. Also Angeles City, Pampanga and San Fernando, Pampanga are supposed to provide additional economic support to New Clark City in the coming decades.
Very similar to Mumbai.
Please be consistent. Are you talking about Manila as a whole or Metro Manila? You're using Manila city's population density (which is really just a small area) but you're talking about traveling 3 hours. You'll already be well outside of Metro Manila in 3 hours, even during rush hour. So please don't mix up Manila and Metro Manila. You don't seem to know the difference. Manila is the old forgotten downtown of Metro Manila. It was mostly destroyed during WW2 and never fully rebuilt. Now Makati, Ortigas, BGC, and Alabang are the main business districts.
@@marimar3161 Metro Manila
@@blogdesign7126 well he’s wrong because Metro Manila’s population density is 21,000 people per sq km, which is half of what he said. He’s using Manila city alone’s population density but applying it to the entire metro area. It doesn’t work like that. Metro Manila’s population density is actually the same as Paris. It’s not extraordinarily high, it just doesn’t have good infrastructure
I think I'll just live in Waldo, Arkansas.
Surprised not to see Las Vegas on the list
Not a lot of people live in Venice. Its population is more like 60 thousand than 600 thousand. Most live in the surroundings like Mestre
I’m from the coast (South-West Finland) so very much related to you re: Paris and London. I lived in Switzerland, and while it is beautiful and functional, don’t know if I could spend my life in a landlocked country or even just inland. Even one with an otherwise better climate than Finland…
surprised chicago isn't on here
Why did they show Sydney in the beginning?
Aren’t large populations the point of a city. I like it to be somewhat crowded.
I just want to remind you guys to put some water and food if possible to stray cats
The cities are only loud because of cars period, it's not due to overcrowding it's due to people relying on their cars when they could ride public transport and demand the government for better transport
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Every city is wonderful
Yes it’s yin and Yang! Everywhere
You should change the name of this channel to Geography Babble.
I dunno but now I feel lucky I live in Quezon City, Philippines.
Some people live in poverty but still would live in one of these cities just for the opportunities, so i thought calling it LEAST LIVEABLE was a bit vague.
The population of Venice, considering just the islands, is around 60000 not 650000 as mentioned.
7:05 bruh that almost how much it cost in Sydney. Sydney is only 100k cheaper
Jakarta as well
Now do Lisbon where the median salary doesn't cover even the rent and the city is full of cars due to our government not investing enough in the improvement of transport