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WALTZING AUSTRALIA
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Monday, September 5, 2011

29. Melbourne - World's Most Livable City

Well now, it's a great day for Melbourne and all Melburnians - we have been voted the world's most livable city! Isn't that great news! After nearly ten years, we finally knocked Vancouver off the top spot and we're it!

And is it any wonder why we're the best city? Just look at some of the photos of our beautiful city:

Above: Princes Bridge

Above: Melbourne Cottages

Above: Flinders Street Station

Above: Eureka Building and Arts Centre Spire

According to the latest Economist Intelligence Unit's Global Liveability Survey, Melbourne is ranked as the world's best city to live in. From 140 cities around the world, Melbourne was given a score of 97.5 per cent. Other Australian cities in the top 10 include Sydney, which ranked sixth (up from seventh) in the previous survey, and bot Adelaide and Perth are unchanged with joint eighth.

You can read about it here