Where is the Best and Safest Place to Live?

I imagine the crime rates in Antarctica are pretty low. Likewise no tornadoes, hurricanes or earthquakes. No problems with mosquitoes carrying West Nile or Malaria. No fire ants. No killer bees.

Oh....did you mean in the U.S.?

Never mind.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Oxo @ Aug 28 2006, 12:03 PM) [snapback]310658[/snapback]</div>

That's exactly what I was thinking.

For me... Italy.

 

Did you see that TV programme, 'A New Life Down Under'? Pretty much backed up your post to the hilt I'm sure though that the producers picked the most desperate cases to show though...

 

I like it "Revolving Topics" Now that ernestos a tropical storm and we should get a little wind and alot of rain.
We welcome those storms.

Dont move to Fla. we have mosquitos, snakes, spiders, palmetto bugs (large cockroach) hot humid temps, fires and confused transplanted nothern retirees that forget how to vote and blame it on the machines ... :blink: :huh: :lol: :lol:

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(TonyPSchaefer @ Aug 29 2006, 02:19 PM) [snapback]311176[/snapback]</div>

I did the Segway tour of Chicago in July- I loved it except the darned things didn't charge the night before so they kept dying on us- nonetheless they were fun!

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(TonyPSchaefer @ Aug 29 2006, 01:19 PM) [snapback]311176[/snapback]</div>

Tony- Thanks for the link to a great website!

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(TonyPSchaefer @ Aug 29 2006, 01:19 PM) [snapback]311176[/snapback]</div>

Potentially interesting site, but be forewarned that registration IS REQUIRED. You can take the quiz, but only after you've invested the time in taking it do you discover that to get the results, you need to provide full contact info.

Personally, I've lived in a number of places around the US over the past 50+ years and found that every location where I've been, from KCMO to NYC, has had both good features and bad features. The key to fulfillment is to take advantage of the good features and minimize the impact of the bad. Before getting carried away with natural "disasters" consider the number of people killed and maimed every year on the US highways, a totally unnatural, but widely accepted disaster.

Vince

 

I tried the survey, too, but gave up part way through when it became obvious it was US-centric. For those US residents who would not consider moving out of their country, that's fine. For those of us who are interested in the best and safest places in the world, the search parameters are a little narrowly defined.

 

I forget where, but there was a survey done recently and Melbourne AU was voted the most liveable city in the world, and a city in Canada was #2. I cannot remember whether it was Vancouver or Toranto.

I liked Melbourne a lot, but those Antarctic winds are harsh!

 

I think this is the survey you are thinking of. It's close to a year old, so new results are probably due soon. And, it's just cities, so that secluded cabin by the lake isn't going to make the list.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/business/4306936.stm

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(galaxee @ Aug 28 2006, 03:03 PM) [snapback]310697[/snapback]</div>

Anywhere in the midwest has the potential. Northern Minnesota is not supposed to get many tornadoes, but one took the roof off our barn. However, we rarely went into the basement, and on this storm we were watching out the big picture window, could only see the trees on the flashes of lightning. I thought they were bending the other way on a previous flash, then on a 3rd flash they were definitely bending a new direction, so we decided to head to the basement at that point. Luckily a big tree had already gone down in the backyard and was catching the sheetmetal and rafters from the barn, or that picture window would probably have been smashed while we were admiring the fury of the storm.

But no problems other than that, and the occasional power outage in winter (meaning no blower fan for the furnace) when it's below zero (one advantage - take the food out of the freezer and put in a snowbank - can't do that in the summer). Being very rural, any storm had the potential to knock out the electricity for a half-day or more. But we cut our own firewood for the furnace, knew all our neighbors, grew/raised a lot of our food. That has to count for something in the safety department as well. Depends on what you want to be safe from.

But, if you think Chicago is cold, then this definitely isn't for you. I live in the Chicago area now, and it's pretty mild for the most part. There's a couple days a year that really wake you up, but nothing like back home. I like to think of the cold as keeping the riff-raff out. Or at least kept it to the level of riff-raff that was home-grown.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(TonyPSchaefer @ Aug 29 2006, 11:30 PM) [snapback]311461[/snapback]</div>

I used Tony Schaefer.

 

From CNN: generally somewhere Connecticut.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(TonyPSchaefer @ Aug 30 2006, 12:30 AM) [snapback]311461[/snapback]</div>

:lol: :lol: I always use "Fred G. Sanford" (for those who dont know him, "Sanford & Son" tv show). :lol: :lol:

 

Here is the link to the website that stated that Melbourne was the most liveable city:
http://www.citymayors.com/environment/eiu_bestcities.html