• waigl@lemmy.worldEnglish
    102·
    4 months ago

    I do not trust any “livability” statistic that lists Frankfurt as the most livable city in Germany.

    Also, the chart does not give its selection criteria. Medium sized cities to cities on the smaller side are completely missing. I get not including towns, that would overwhelm the graph.

    Then again, what even is a city, what sets it apart from a town? Different regions in Europe have vastly different definitions of that, with the UK’s definition being particularly notable for how useless it is.

    • poVoq@slrpnk.netMEnglish
      351·
      4 months ago

      Some of the others high up on that list are equally absurd. OK, Zürich and Geneva are maybe nice if you are a millionaire, but for everyone else they are absolutely unaffordable.

    • merari42@lemmy.worldEnglish
      161·
      4 months ago

      Perhaps the liveability index gives extra points for:

      1. An open drug scene full of crackheads at the main rail station
      2. A lot of Gangsta rappers from the city
      3. Being a hub of financial crime

      So Frankfurt scored well on those

      • Augustiner@lemmy.worldEnglish
        31·
        4 months ago

        Don’t forget about all the Nazis with their robot dogs that make up the police force over there.

        There just isn’t another way to keep the place nice and safe without them.

    • redisdead@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      4 months ago

      It has Paris in there, lmao.

      If someone forced me at gunpoint to live in Paris, I’d wrestle the gun off of them and then shoot myself.

  • Lauchmelder@feddit.orgEnglish
    344·
    4 months ago

    And all other European cities are less liveable than Kyiv? I find that hard to believe

  • Hubi@feddit.orgEnglish
    23·
    4 months ago

    Pretty insane that Moscow and St. Petersburg only rank a little higher than a the Ukrainian capital that is suffering from drone attacks and power outages on the regular.

  • CptEnder@lemmy.worldEnglish
    121·
    4 months ago

    I love that this equally pisses off all Europeans though haha. Personally I can see how Copenhagen is high and oof yeah why Kyiv is last (would love to see it bounce back up after they win).

  • Franconian_Nomad@feddit.deEnglish
    7·
    4 months ago

    Hmm, I think Istanbul is pretty great, if you don’t mind the high inflation and the insane amount of inhabitants. (16 Million!) I would actually love to live here for a year or two.

    And Prague is an amazing city and very cheap to live, I can’t see why it should be worse than Berlin for example. Also Munich, while pretty great is so fucking expensive to live, it’s not even funny. And that’s already by German standards. I think Frankfurt gets a bad reputation by many Germans, it’s a pretty ok and diverse big city. Wouldn’t put in on the first place in Germany though.

    All in all a pretty strange list.

    • poVoq@slrpnk.netMEnglish
      5·
      4 months ago

      I suspect being very expensive was a positive criteria in that study as it keeps the riffraff out /s

  • John@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    7·
    4 months ago

    Theres a lot german citys i would prefer over Frankfurt and Düsseldorf(and also over munich and hamburg especially since munich is the most expensive City in germany)

  • TotallyNotSpez@lemm.eeEnglish
    52·
    4 months ago

    Dublin? Who would think it’s a nice city to live in? It’s nothing but a very expensive kip.

  • johny@feddit.orgEnglish
    42·
    4 months ago

    Brought to you by the institute for made up numbers.