{"id":3577,"date":"2014-03-06T02:09:18","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T18:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=3577"},"modified":"2014-04-05T19:27:53","modified_gmt":"2014-04-05T11:27:53","slug":"vancouver-ranked-best-place-to-live-in-north-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/03\/06\/vancouver-ranked-best-place-to-live-in-north-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Vancouver ranked best place to live in North America"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3579\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3579\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/640px-English_Bay_Vancouver_BC.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3579\" alt=\"English Bay, Vancouver, BC. Photo by James Z via Wiki Commons.\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/640px-English_Bay_Vancouver_BC.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"479\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/640px-English_Bay_Vancouver_BC.jpg 640w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/640px-English_Bay_Vancouver_BC-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3579\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>English Bay, Vancouver, BC. Photo by <a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:English_Bay,_Vancouver,_BC.jpg\">James Z via Wiki Commons<\/a>.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">In Mercer\u2019s annual Quality of Living Survey, Vancouver was ranked top city in North America and fifth in the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The global consulting firm\u2019s 2014 rankings measured living conditions in more than 460 cities based on 39 factors such as political and social environment; economic environment; schools and education; housing; and natural environment. Mercer\u2019s survey aids governments in benchmarking their cities\u2019 attractiveness for expatriates and helps multinational organizations fairly compensate employees who are placed on international assignments. To read Mercer\u2019s news release, click <a href=\"http:\/\/vancouver.dmplocal.com\/main\/index.php?action=t&amp;tag=here&amp;id=18072&amp;viewers_email=melissarbriones@gmail.com&amp;dest=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mercer.com%2Fpress-releases%2Fquality-of-living-report-2014\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For a comprehensive list of Vancouver\u2019s recent accolades, click <a href=\"http:\/\/vancouver.dmplocal.com\/main\/index.php?action=t&amp;tag=here&amp;id=18072&amp;viewers_email=melissarbriones@gmail.com&amp;dest=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tourismvancouver.com%2Fmedia%2Fmedia-kit%2Fbackground%2Fhonouring-vancouver%2F%3Futm_source%3DDMC%26utm_medium%3DEMAIL%26utm_content%3D%5Bga%3Aemail%5D%26utm_campaign%3D18072%3AApril+Fresh%3A+Five+Can%E2%80%99t-Miss+Cherry+Blossom+Festival+Events%2C+Historic+Rooftop+Restaurant+Reopens+%26+Hollywood+North+Highlights\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Press release courtesy of Tourism Vancouver&#8217;s travel media newsletter for April 2014.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; In Mercer\u2019s annual Quality of Living Survey, Vancouver was ranked top city in North America and fifth in the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":3579,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[793,572],"class_list":["post-3577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-travel","tag-travel-media-newsletter","tag-vancouver","mauthors-tourism-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}