Vancouver, BC - A recent article at CNBC.com is reporting that Vancouver is ranked the 5th best city in the world to live in. The quality of life and personal safety rank high for the metropolises at the top of the list, according to a survey by human resources consulting firm Mercer, which evaluated 221 cities worldwide.

 

Vancouver is the only Canadian and North American city to make the top 10 on the list.

The city of Vancouver is renowned for making numerous lists of the world's most livable cities over the past decade. It has ranked among the top five in the Mercer quality-of-life survey for the past five years.

Home to one of the mildest climates in Canada, Vancouver is also its greenest city, with the smallest carbon footprint of any major city in North America. The city is surrounded by water and snowy mountains, and its government constantly promotes green building, planning and technology, with the ambition of becoming the world's greenest city by 2020.