A survey of 5,200 Australians suggests that Adelaide is our “most liveable city”, followed by Canberra and Melbourne. But what factors make a place liveable, and how can individual cities improve?
Listings that pit cities against each other as the best place to live tend to stimulate argument, and I suspect this one will be no exception. The 2011 Mercer Quality Of Living rankings rate Sydney as the best city in Australia to live in, and the 11th-best in the world.