Beautiful but doesn't even crack the top 10 Flickr user kariek Every year Monocle Magazine calculates the best cities in the world to live in, and the 2011 results are in.

The editors of the lifestyle magazine seek to recognize the world's best cities, ranking them based on economic and social factors in addition to hipper things like "24 hour metabolism" where cities were given extra points for not shutting down at 10 PM.

Other factors involved in Monocle's ranking system included whether the cities had well-tended bars, the amount of green space in cities, how the city used architectural planning and urban ambition.

We've listed the rankings and added information about the best cities in the world, and it appears that despite economic woes, European cities are still the most attractive places to live...