VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) – Vancouver consistently ranks among the most livable cities in the world, yet it places surprisingly low in a new ranking of Canada’s best places to live compiled by Money Sense magazine.

You can blame it on the fact its hard to measure things like beauty, otherwise we’d be number one, according to editor Jon Chevreau.

“Basically, Vancouver is the most expensive housing market in the country by far, I think the average price for a home is $882,000,” he explains. “When you put in all these different factors, because we looked at 33 different things, that’s why Vancouver didn’t come out number one.”

In fact, Calgary took first place.

“For net worth and livability, purely economics…and affordability for new people trying to get into the housing market and jobs…the whole confluence of these multiple factors, Calgary did come out on top,” says Chevreau.

Vancouver, on the other hand, wasn’t even close.

Not only are we not number one, out of 200 cities, we’re number 52, that’s actually up from number 56 last year.

There’s a bit of a consolation prize.

Vancouver placed 10th among top 10 large Canadian cities.

But here’s some perspective: Toronto placed seventh, while Winnipeg, number one for homicides five years running, took fifth place.