Thu 13 Apr 2006
Something called The Worldwide Quality of Living Survey has been released for 2006. It ranks cities based on a variety of factors as places to live for ex-pats. Out of 215 cities, Beirut is #155- slightly better than Hanoi and slightly worse than Bangalore. The top 3 are Zurich, Geneva, and Vancouver. Of those 3, I have only been to Geneva, which I thought was rather boring. At the bottom, unsurprisingly, is Baghdad.
I’m not sure how the cities were chosen, or why Lexington, KY is on the list, but Dallas, TX isn’t. This link is weird, but it’s the only place that I found the whole list.
April 13th, 2006 at 11:08 am
http://www.ibnlive.com/article.php?id=8185§ion_id=3
I’m in Bangalore right now. Very interesting place. They shut down operations for two days due to this incident.
Other than this, I have been having an absolutely wonderful time here.
April 13th, 2006 at 11:37 am
Wow, Art. You are in city #154. How long will you be there? I’d love to hear more, even though now I know all about “lathicharge”, which I had to look up.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lathicharge
April 14th, 2006 at 4:34 am
I had never heard of Rajkumar.
April 28th, 2006 at 1:14 am
I’m back! It was an exciting 3 week trip. In the middle I hung out with a bschool friend in Delhi. I certainly hope that the infrastructure in Beruit is better than in Bangalore. In Bangalore it is crumbling even with the influx of foreign capital. Very interesting trip.
September 14th, 2006 at 10:47 pm
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