I’m moving to Melbourne or Vancouver.

Or maybe I’ll just stay in Sydney as number seven on the list of 140 global most liveable cities in the world can’t be all bad.

The Economist magazine has released the below list, with the most liveable cities being –

1. Vancouver
2. Vienna
3. Melbourne
4. Toronto
5. Calgary
6. Helsinki
7. Sydney
8. Perth/Adelaide
9. Auckland

So why isn’t the above list also the most visited cities in the world?

I guess we like to live in those kinds of cities but when we travel we want some extra edge or excitement, hence places like Paris, London, Bangkok, Shanghai and New York end up on the most visited list. It says a lot about our expectations of travel destinations that we don’t necessarily need the best air quality, the safest or most respectable or even the cleanest of cities when it comes to travel choices.

People would like to live in the top 10 and raise their children but when it comes to going somewhere for holidays, travelers look for other qualities in their destinations. Among them being electricity, edge, pulse, excitement and the knowing that the experience will be so different from where they live.

I would never move out of Sydney but my favourite city to visit is New York because of the reasons just stated. Sydney has degrees of all the above but places like New York have raised the levels so high that it becomes a totally different city experience.

Mind you I would be moving from my city if it was at the bottom of the list. Sorry Harare, Dhaka and Algiers.