Melbourne ranked world’s most liveable city for sixth consecutive year

Try Australia or Canada.

The list was topped by Melbourne in Australia, followed very closely by Vienna.

Melbourne maintained its overall liveability score of 97.5, determined by its score across five broad categories of stability (95), healthcare (100), culture and environment (95.1), education (100) and infrastructure (100).

The EIU said “the survey is created to address a range of cities or business centres that people might want to live in or visit”. They tend to be mid-sized cities in wealthier countries, with relatively low population density.

“It brings down their environment scores and their scores for transport”, said Baptist.

Paris took a plummet to 32nd place and Syria’s city of Damascus was ranked last.

Despite 10 places between the two cities, London’s score of 87.2 is only 1.6 off Manchester on 88.8.

Baptist explained that both cities rank in the top rating of livability, with Singapore beating Hong Kong by having better infrastructure.

While Singapore beat Hong Kong by having better infrastructure, the city-state was penalised by a warm, humid climate – something outside Singapore’s control – and censorship. Global terrorism remains a threat to stability.

Damascus, glued to the foot of the table, has seen the largest decline, with its score falling 26.1 per cent in five years. “It’s just more proof there’s no city on earth quite like Melbourne”, said Premier and all-round legend Daniel Andrews.

As well, Paris saw a “sharp decline” in its ranking due to the number of recent terror attacks in that city and across France over the past three years. Its position is unchanged from previous year.

“While not a new phenomenon, [terrorism’s] frequency and spread have increased noticeably and become even more prominent in the past year”.

There have been more than 1,000 reported terror attacks so far in 2016, says the report, with incidents in France, Turkey, the U.S. and Belgium among the most high profile. Berlin and Frankfurt have also seen similar declines, having suffered from protests and social unrest in the past year.

What do you love about living in Melbourne? “We do perceive that over the last 12 months, the level of tensions between China and some other nations have gone up”.

Over the past year, 35 cities of the 140 surveyed have experienced changes in scores.

Some of the world’s key financial centres in major developed countries are becoming a lot less “liveable” due to the rising threat of terrorism.