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A comment on The World's Best Places to Live 2008.

Re:The World's Best Places to Live 2008 by yummyfajitas on Tuesday July 29, 2008 @10:46AM (#260536)
From the article: "Cities are compared to New York as the base city, with an index score of 100."

I think this reveals as much as the rankings do.

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Re:The World's Best Places to Live 2008 by ConradHex on Tuesday July 29, 2008 @11:05AM (#260562)
Maybe, or maybe they're just using it as a numeric reference. Something has to be 100, right?
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Re:The World's Best Places to Live 2008 by yummyfajitas on Tuesday July 29, 2008 @01:19PM (#260801)
Yes, NYC is the standard to which all other cities are compared.
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