Uploaded on 2015-10-08 by KABALEESWARAN

In the list below, you can find (in alphabetical order) some of the livability criteria that official surveys use to determine the livability of a city. We want you to select the top-5 criteria that you think contribute the most to a city's livability. Order them with the most important at the top of your list Top five criteria, in my opinion are 1. Housing 2. Safety 3. Job opportunities 4. Health care 5. culture **2. Why do we live where we live?** Name the place you live and provide 5 reasons why you live there. Those reasons may not be related to the official livability criteria. Order them with the most important at the top of your list. To support your statements you are asked to provide one or more images from your area of residence, that describe the reasons you selected. I am living in a city named as Chennai, in India. My residence is in an area called “west-mambalam”. I am staying in this place as my parents live out here for the last four decades, and I have purchased the apartment 20 years back. My house is near to my parents’ House around 3kms distance. 1. Proximity to my Parents Home 2. Near to Markets and essentials 3. Bus station and Rail station (very near) 4. Hospitals 5. Many temples ![enter image description here][1] ![enter image description here][2] ![enter image description here][3] Link courtesy addresses of images above. Img – 1 http://static.panoramio.com/photos/large/41987503.jpg Img-2 http://www.google.co.in/imgres?imgurl=http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3117/2615307519_c244978ae2.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.flickriver.com/places/India/Tamil%2BNadu/Chennai/West%2BMambalam/search/&h=375&w=500&tbnid=WQxeRQzTKOkicM:&docid=n9Fy4kSdYbjJFM&ei=8VcWVt69LsXhuQT2hISgCg&tbm=isch&ved=0CBwQMygBMAFqFQoTCJ76svvmssgCFcVwjgoddgIBpA Img-3 https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcREZU-YxSwuI20qvaXMxs5Sd0dD9vp5L7KJhBsIM9oSBdUJ4B2aRQ **3. To what extend does your own place of residence fulfill your ideal livability criteria?** On a scale from 1-100 rate to what extend your place of residence fulfills your ideal livability criteria (i.e. the top-5 criteria you selected in Question 1). 1. Housing- 80% 2. Safety- 70% 3. Job opportunities-80% 4. Health care-80% 5. Culture-90% 6. Overall score – 80% ****4. What would you change?**Imagine that you were the mayor of your place of residence. Which would be the first measure you would take to improve livability?** I would like to improvise on the following. • Sanitation aspects. (Even though we can give a rating of 60 % currently. There is large scope of improvement possible, in terms of garbage clearance frequency, rain water gutter cleanliness etc.) • Removal of illegal and pavement shops in the pedestrian walk area. **5. Why do we move?** In this last part of the exercise we want you to name three places that you would select to move in case you decided to change place of residence. In addition, provide us with 5 qualities of these places that played important role during your decision process. Order them with the most important at the top of your list. At the outset, I do not want to move out from my state which is Tamilnadu. Considering my age (52 years), skill sets (passionate in teaching and sales jobs) and other criteria (vegetarian, spiritual) I would like to choose and shortlist the following three places. First choice Madurai city- my wife’s native place, we own a house here. The five strong qualities that influences the decision. 1. Medium sized city with rich culture 2. Courteous people/ medium cost of living 3. Lot of Educational Institutes/Teaching Job Opportunities 4. Hospitals – Good Heath care 5. Temple city ( Lot of temples around ) Second choice Coimbatore (textile city) 1. Medium sized city with well-regulated Traffic 2. Courteous & respectful people – known for its best traditional values- medium cost of living 3. Lot of educational Institutes, Text tile Industry/ Job opportunities 4. Popular Hospitals with sufficient health care 5. Culture -Yoga centers, Spiritual movements , Temples Third choice Kanchipuram (temple city) (Very near to Chennai- 1 Hour drive.) 1. Small and tiny town – suburbs of Chennai 2. Less population and courteous people 3. Leading colleges and Polytechnics 4. Hospitals 5. Culture -Many temples – Temple city [1]: https://edxuploads.s3.amazonaws.com/14443090457308388.png [2]: https://edxuploads.s3.amazonaws.com/14443090678545548.png [3]: https://edxuploads.s3.amazonaws.com/14443090839493876.png