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Others say host city Milan has become unliveable for many, with locals squeezed by soaring living costs amid an influx of wealthy new residents attracted by a tax scheme.

From Barron's • Feb. 7, 2026

And all of this is happening at a time when natural disasters and climate effects are wiping out swathes of housing stock, making even more parts of the vast Australian continent effectively unliveable.

From BBC • Dec. 28, 2023

Not only is this intolerably warm for the river dolphins, but it also reduces the oxygen levels in the water, which render the area even more unliveable.

From Salon • Oct. 3, 2023

Regions in the middle of the supercontinent, far from the oceans, would turn into deserts that are unliveable “expect for very specialized mammals,” says Farnsworth.

From Scientific American • Sep. 27, 2023

Plato, in the sentence already quoted, tells us that "the unexamined life is unliveable for a human being, for a real man."

From The Jesus of History by Glover, T. R.