The Off Topic Topic

[Syt]

Well, the competition is tough:

Personal safety is an important factor when companies decide where to establish locations abroad and send expatriate workers. Criteria used for Personal Safety Ranking include: Internal Stability; Crime; Law Enforcement; Limitations on Personal Freedom; Media/Censorship.

[Valmy]

All you cities worse than Caracas better be in actual warzones or I don't know what the hell you are doing.

[Caliga]

I don't think Conakry is?  But it has Ebola, so there's that.

[celedhring]

Barcelona on 43rd position. No Ebola or warzone, but I guess we have our problems.

[Barrister]

Boo!  Edmonton isn't even ranked!

It does amuse me that of the top five cities to live in in North America, all five are in Canada.

[Valmy]

Auckland and Vancouver are the best places in the entire English speaking world. Who would have thought?

[Syt]

Barcelona on 43rd position. No Ebola or warzone, but I guess we have our problems.

An ongoing separatist movement probably doesn't help.

[Malthus]

Also, we're the 6th safest cities of those examined, apparently. Of course politicians sometimes make it sound like it's basically The Wire here.

Heh, every city has the same amount of whining about local problems, it doesn't matter how they rank against each other. All that changes is that in the cities that "work", the whining is based on less. 

Toronto is ranked 16th overall in this chart, and is second in North America; yet if you make the mistake of reading the Toronto subreddit, you would think it was a uniquely dystopian hellhole. 

[Syt]

Also, we're the 6th safest cities of those examined, apparently. Of course politicians sometimes make it sound like it's basically The Wire here.

Heh, every city has the same amount of whining about local problems, it doesn't matter how they rank against each other. All that changes is that in the cities that "work", the whining is based on less. 

Toronto is ranked 16th overall in this chart, and is second in North America; yet if you make the mistake of reading the Toronto subreddit, you would think it was a uniquely dystopian hellhole. 

It's no picnic here, either. Look at this chaos at a local supermarket:

[derspiess]

Okay that is pretty bad.  I would not be able to walk past that without separating them into proper stacks

[Grey Fox]

All I see is a 1 million $ liability suit.

[DGuller]

Wow, they have incompatible hand basket shapes in Austria as well?  You'd think at least Germanic countries would avoid this plague.

[Syt]

Not to mention that the little trolleys into which the baskets are supposed to be stacked are sitting empty on the left hand side.

(If you wonder about the different baskets - there's smaller ones and larger ones that act like a trolley.)

[DGuller]

All I see is a 1 million $ liability suit.

It's Europe, your next of kin would get 25% off coupon for your funeral.

[celedhring]

All supermarkets here have all one size of perfectly stackable handbaskets, and we get lodged at 43rd???????? THIS IS FIXED!!!!!!!!