There are tens, if not hundreds of cities around the world which could be classed as iconic.
There is no particularly official definition for what qualifies a city to be iconic, but it is generally determined by how well known or desirable it is to visit or live in.
Even if a city is iconic, it doesn’t necessarily mean it is a nice city, or specifically a nice city to live in.
In this video we will take a look at some of the world’s least liveable iconic cities.
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So what is actually a highly livable city? Calgary? Vienna? Copenhagen? These cities are surely very livable, but they do not offer nearly as many amenities as the big cities listed in the video. So I think it depends on what people really want. Either big city life with attractive skyscrapers, fancy lifestyle, lots of entertainment, electric nightlife, cuisine from around the world, high paying corporate jobs, etc. or live in a small-medium city with less pollution, less crowds, less trash on the streets, less crime probably, etc. It is one's decision to stay in a big city or more to a smaller one (except if you are from a country that offers you no option, like Singaporeans 🙁 )
This one isnt iconic but its an Urban nightmare Pheonix its to big no public transport water problems thats just the surface
hong kong is so superior that because there was nothing bad to show about hong kong, you put a picture of protests and then one of residential buildings. based hong kong.
London, Paris, and New York are ghetto hells destroyed by leftist political correctness and dark meats.
I bet its easier to live in New York than Paris
Where is Bangalore, Mumbai, Delhi (India) and Dhaka (Bangladesh). I have seen many more worse cities compared to the list you put in here. I would only agree with Venice and Los Angeles. However crowded and expensive Hong Kong is, it's a lovely city to live in. Infact Shanghai is kind of iffy that's my opinion
Basically, they are overcrowded, overpriced and inequitable.
1:09 Singapore, Malaysia…..uhhhh
As somone who lives in paris, it isn't that expensive if you find a 2 bedroom apartment outside the city
Edit: but it's still expensive as hell in most areas and it's a pretty bad city to live in since people aren't really friendly
I knew my home, LA would be on here. I left this year for Europe
Agree 100%. My Top 10 Cities to visit and Top 10 Cities to live in are vastly different lists.
Definitely Tel Aviv.
Last year it was ranked as the world’s most expensive city, it also has stupidly high rent and housing prices, and everything in Israel is overall very expensive
I really couldn't care less about even VISITING these cities let alone live in them. I've only been to Los Angeles once and that was good enough for me.
What about Sheboygan Wisconsin?
IF YOU'RE POOR AND BROKE EVERYWHERE IS UNLIVABLE !!
new york may suck for westerners but its way better than bengaluru
I saw London on the list i stop the video and leave! London is the BEST to live.
Paris doesn’t have exactly "the same climate" as London, it gets much hotter in summer especially at night
New York is actually one of the safest big cities in the world. Even with the recent rise in crime rates it's still pretty safe relative to the rest of the country.
"Overcrowding" means there are too many people living within individual units. Population density is not overcrowding. Stop it.
Actually, you don't necessarily need a car in New York. It depends on what part of the city you live in. I've done fine without a car in NYC for 30 years.
As for iconic, but unlivable cities, San Francisco should be on the list, with its insanely high cost of living, many homeless and dirty streets.
The list is:
6) London
5) Paris
4) Los Angeles
3) Hong Kong
2) New York
1) Venice
Honcover cucked hard lol lmao
I think every city has its advantages and disadvantages.
As a German, I can't understand the international hype about our cities.
Cologne has (male) street prostitution right next to the Cologne Cathedral. Berlin has a lot of homeless people, the government district and some trendy areas are okay, otherwise everything is run down and I've never been treated as unfriendly as I was there…oh wait, one city was worse: Munich. The tourist areas are okay, but a bit outside….oh boy. It's also bloody expensive there. There are people who go to work full time and still live under a bridge.
Hamburg is … interesting. Slightly dirty and sloppy everywhere, the nightlife is great and somehow a bit dangerous, but there are insanely nice areas as well – where the rich live. Normal earners can hardly afford a decent flat there.
People from the whole world travel to the Oktoberfest, get drunk and a lot of tourists misbehave, and many foreigners carry the cliché that Munich represents virtually all of Germany around the world. I live in the North West and we have much more in common culturally with the British (our local cuisine is just as awful, and we drink a lot of tea, haha!).
Maybe you just have to have grown up in a big city to be numb to the disadvantages. I'm a country bumpkin, not a redneck or such like, but I hate big crowds and dirt, noise and stench. Of course I like to visit big cities because I'm curious, but I'm also happy to leave again. And even if I were filthy rich or inherited a flat there – I wouldn't want to live there.
One correction: these cities aren’t loud, dirty and congested as a result of population density but rather planning. Cars are responsible for most of the mouse pollution in cities, as well as pollution. Congestion is due to the fact that most “public” spaces by square feet in almost all of these belongs to cars and thus tourists and residents are funneled into the tiny amount of space that’s actual open to them. Cities have been built for cars not people and banning cars completely within large cities (with the obvious exceptions) coupled with good transit infrastructure would make any of these cities unrecognizable in a good way and way more livable. (Venice being the obvious exception here)
Cities in the Western hemisphere are still '' Liveable '' compare to the Middle East such as Cairo or cities in India such as Mumbai and New Delhi; those Capital cities are densely overpopulated and poorly managed with heavy traffic jams and air pollution that is unbearable to live in !!
1:08 "5. Singapore, Malaysia!? Huh? Singapore became independent of Malaysia in 1965, more than half a century ago!
Video left out all the major cities in South America and Asia. Rio? Mexico city? Mumbai?Singapore? Just to name a few
Singapore is not Malaysia
I know thsi has nothing to do with this particular video, but I need to say something about what I've been seeing on this platform lately. What's with the whining YouTube Chat Nannies telling me to keep it respectful when I want to say something. Hey all you perpetually offended professional victims, grow TF up and learn to handle opinions you don't like.
That being said, you forgot the entire San Fransisco Bay. Average rent there just can't be paid without an advanced degree or multiple jobs and roommates.
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To be fair, lots of these cities share problems of having too many tourists, with Venice being the most extreme example given how few people live there and how small the area is. And to be fair, New York City crime doesn’t look that bad when it is counted on per capita basis, as it should be; it is still one of the safer major cities in the US. Otherwise it is an interesting video; basically if you have lots of money, you’d be fine. I also don’t find london that expensive (outside of rent) when a person knows how to save. I live in Glasgow, but when I went to a supermarket to buy food, the prices were more or less the same in London. The same goes to the type of food I would usually eat when just eating at some local restaurant/takeaway. Obviously I might be overlooking something, it is hard to get a jest of it unless you live somewhere long term. I would also point out that New York, LA, Hong Kong, London, San Francisco, etc. are nominally quite expensive for outsiders, sometimes even within the same country; let me give an example – flats in Prague/Bratislava are also very expensive in for a regular Czech/Slovak guy, however if you are a British person on London salary, or an American on New York salary; and you go there for a trip, or even live, but you keep your New York salary; it seems cheap; pretty much the rest of the world with few exceptions seems cheap. If you live in Prague on Prague salary, it might be to you nearly as expensive as to a Londoner London, but then London looks even more expensive if you are there on Prague salary. I do think this contributes to the image of London being expensive, because an anglophone person might not know the local wages and realities of cities like prague when visiting, because lots of things are cheaper for them.
I would welcome a video of iconic cities that are not that hard to live in, probably Prague would be mid-tier; while a city like Vienna would be top tier thanks partly to their housing policies. Tokyo is also not that bad; I lived in Japan (not in Tokyo though), but had friends there and it did seem fine.
This was so so interesting! I am curious about cities that would have a perception of not being liveable but actually are – can you do a video on that too?
1:13 Singapore, Malaysia
I can sense angry Singaporeans in the background.