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Toronto came in 5th in the livability survey of the Economist Intelligence Unit, behind Vancouver, Melbourne, Vienna and Perth. While we can rightfully be proud of our score, it's kind of like being one of the kids who sits in the front of the room near the teacher while all the cool kids like New York and London are having a lot more fun down in the 40s and 50s.

Thanks to Shanghaist Editor Dan Washburn for calling our attention to the latest Cost of Living Survey from the Economist Intelligence Unit, which rates 132 cities worldwide by how much it costs to live there.

CBC Unplugged describes these rankings as less about most good, and more about least bad("the honour is based in large part on an absence of awfulness"), but who are we to quibble, when a body or researchers as fastidiously named as the Economist Intelligence Unit tells us we're livable, or liveable, when we dispense with translating from the British.