Uploaded on 2015-10-13 by DanaeGeorgiadou

a. Housing b. Safety c. Transportation d. Education e. Job opportunities 2. Why do we live where we live? I live in Cyprus, Nicosia. While your top livability criteria should be relative to your decision, living in an island where the longest distance between two cities is max. 2 hours as well as the 30 minutes it takes to go from one side of the city to the other, makes that relativity dissipate slightly. While housing and safety remain connected, job opportunities lose their importance since a certain number of job opportunities can be found within a 30 minute distance. And since the government has improved public transportation and issued neighbourhood watch as well, safe housing areas are more common.![distance between everything][1] So the choice to live where I live was taken based on education, recreation possibilities, a dead-end street for less noise pollution, closeness to people with similar age to mine and walking distance to everything I might need.![dead end street][2] 3. To what extend does your own place of residence fulfil your ideal livability criteria? If each criteria where to be rated separately from scale 1 – 20, I would give housing 15 because for a 10 year old house problems arose that shouldn’t have in such a short time. For safety I would give 18, because through all the years that I have lived here the only safety problem was breaking and entering once every couple of years and with the neighbourhood watch program that has been initiated safety is ensured. For transportation I would give 19, since bus transportation (no trains or metros exist) goes through many areas of the city, driving to and from places is easy since traffic is properly regulated and with the exception of certain main roads who lack side-walks, making for pedestrians to walk around difficult at points, walking around is easy and the small distances help. Elementary schools, high schools, lyceums and Universities can be found once again in walking distance from the living areas so I would rate it with a 20. As for job opportunities I would give a 14 owing to the fact that despite having choices, your chances of moving further ahead in your career you have chosen are slim. So on a scale from 1 – 100 I would give my place of residence 86/100.![pavements][3]![pavements][4]![green areas][5] 4. What would you change? When taking into consideration the ranking I have offered on the previous question and the explanations I have provided on each livability criteria, as a mayor I would work on the international connectivity first, since job opportunities are constantly offered for unemployed people the next step would be to offer the people the possibility to broaden their knowledge beyond their society norm. Give people the possibility the chance to become better in their chosen career path and in turn offer to the community their learned attributes. Following I would work on the environmental aspect and make the green areas offered by the municipality “green”, since most green areas are left abandoned making it dangerous for anyone to go near without fearing for snakes or rats, fixing the side-walks as well as the roads. 5. Why do we move? The places I would consider in case I decided to change residence would be Toronto in Canada, Dublin in Ireland and Edinburgh in Scotland, United Kingdom, And the reasons for my choices are the climate, culture, environment and the fact that they are different to what I have experienced so far. [1]: https://edxuploads.s3.amazonaws.com/14447545844134432.jpg [2]: http:// [3]: http:// [4]: http:// [5]: http://