Which City Across The Globe is The Best to Live In?

--- Personal safety key factor in determining expat quality of living --- Vienna ranks highest in overall quality of living --- Luxembourg ranks highest for personal safety; Baghdad lowest --- London ranks 39th in overall quality of living in UK; 72nd in personal safety For its 2016 Quality of Living Survey, global consulting firm Mercer analyzed local living conditions in 460 cities based on 40 factors including

The annual list is used to help multinational companies decide fair compensation for employees assigned abroad.

is the world’s best city to live in;

is the worst, and

,

and

do not even make it into the top 35, according to international research into quality of life. German-speaking cities dominate the rankings in the 18th Mercer Quality of Life study, with Vienna joined by

and

in the top seven. The European migrant crisis, which has seen large numbers of refugees and asylum seekers pass through Vienna en route to Germany, has had little impact on the city of nearly 1.8 million people. (

)

in New Zealand was the highest ranking English-speaking city in the survey, in third place, followed by

in fifth. Australian cities also perform very highly in the survey, with

10th and

15th. The Economist has consistently ranked Melbourne as the world’s most liveable city, although its survey has been criticised as too Anglocentric.

and

are behind all the worst-ranked cities in the world. Surprisingly,

is named as only the seventh worst, ranked better than not just

but also

in Central African Republic,

in Yemen,

in Haiti,

, and

in Chad.

	Vienna	Austria
	Zurich	Switzerland
	Auckland	New Zealand
	Munich	Germany
	Vancouver	Canada
	Dusseldorf	Germany
	Frankfurt	Germany
	Geneva	Switzerland
	Copenhagen	Denmark
	Sydney	Australia
	Amsterdam	Netherlands
	Wellington	New Zealand
	Berlin	Germany
	Bern	Switzerland
	Toronto	Canada
	Melbourne	Australia
	Ottawa	Canada
	Hamburg	Germany
	Luxembourg	Luxembourg
	Stockholm	Sweden
	Brussels	Belgium
	Perth	Australia
	Montreal	Canada
	Stuttgart	Germany
	Nurnberg	Germany
	Singapore	Singapore
	Adelaide	Australia
	San Francisco	US
	Canberra	Australia
	Helsinki	Finland
	Oslo	Norway
	Calgary	Canada
	Dublin	Ireland
	Boston	US
	Honolulu	US
	Brisbane	Australia
	Paris	France
	Lyon	France
	Barcelona	Spain
	London	UK
	Milan	Italy
	Lisbon	Portugal
	Chicago	US
	New York	US
	Tokyo	Japan
	Seattle	US
	Kobe	Japan
	Edinburgh	UK
	Los Angeles	US
	Yokohama	Japan
	Washington DC	US
	Madrid	Spain
	Birmingham	UK
	Rome	Italy
	Glasgow	UK
	Pittsburgh	US
	Philadelphia	US
	Osaka	Japan
	Aberdeen	UK
	Leipzig	Germany
	Minneapolis	US
	Nagoya	Japan
	Dallas	US
	Belfast	UK
	Houston	US
	Miami	US
	Atlanta	US
	St. Louis	US
	Prague	Czech Republic
	Detroit	US
	Hong Kong	Hong Kong
	Pointe-a-Pitre	Guadeloupe
	Seoul	South Korea
	San Juan	Puerto Rico
	Dubai	United A. Emirates
	Ljubljana	Slovenia
	Budapest	Hungary
	Montevideo	Uruguay
	Vilnius	Lithuania
	Warsaw	Poland
	Abu Dhabi	United A. Emirates
	Bratislava	Slovakia
	Port Louis	Mauritius
	Taipei	Taiwan
	Durban	South Africa
	Kuala Lumpur	Malaysia
	Athens	Greece
	Limassol	Cyprus
	Tallinn	Estonia
	Riga	Latvia
	Busan	South Korea
	Cape Town	South Africa
	Buenos Aires	Argentina
	Santiago	Chile
	Johannesburg	South Africa
	Panama City	Panama
	Victoria	Seychelles
	Zagreb	Croatia
	Wroclaw	Poland
	Taichung	Taiwan
	Shanghai	China
	Bandar Seri Beg,	Brunei
	Johor Bahru	Malaysia
	Tel Aviv	Israel
	San Jose	Costa Rica
	Brasilia	Brazil
	Muscat	Oman
	Monterrey	Mexico
	Bucharest	Romania
	Doha	,
	Noumea	New Caledonia
	Nassau	Bahamas
	Tunis	Tunisia
	Asuncion	Paraguay
	Sofia	Bulgaria
	Rabat	Morocco
	Rio De Janeiro	Brazil
	Beijing	China
	Guangzhou	China
	Amman	Jordan
	Sao Paulo	Brazil
	Istanbul	Turkey
	Lima	Peru
	Kuwait City	Kuwait
	Manaus	Brazil
	Casablanca	Morocco
	Mexico City	Mexico
	Quito	Ecuador
	Bangkok	Thailand
	Bogota	Colombia
	Windhoek	Namibia
	Colombo	Sri Lanka
	Manama	Bahrain
	Chengdu	China
	Santo Domingo	Dominican Rep
	Manila	Philippines
	Nanjing	China
	Shenzhen	China
	Hyderabad	India
	Xian	China
	Belgrade	Serbia
	Jakarta	Indonesia
	Gaborone	Botswana
	Pune	India
	Bengaluru	India
	Chongqing	China
	Port of Spain	Trinidad & Tobago
	Qingdao	China
	Lusaka	Zambia
	Chennai	India
	Kingston	Jamaica
	Guatemala City	Guatemala
	Mumbai	India
	Ho Chi Minh C.	Vietnam
	Hanoi	Vietnam
	La Paz	Bolivia
	Shenyang	China
	Sarajevo	Bosnia-Herzegovina
	Skopje	Macedonia
	Kolkata	India
	New Delhi	India
	Dakar	Senegal
	Libreville	Gabon
	Riyadh	Saudi Arabia
	Jeddah	Saudi Arabia
	Accra	Ghana
	Moscow	Russia
	Jilin	China
	Kampala	Uganda
	Vientiane	Laos
	Cairo	Egypt
	Managua	Nicaragua
	San Salvador	El Salvador
	St. Petersburg	Russia
	Blantyre	Malawi
	Almaty	Kazakhstan
	Kiev	Ukraine
	Maputo	Mozambique
	Tirana	Albania
	Beirut	Lebanon
	Cotonou	Benin
	Yerevan	Armenia
	Banjul	Gambia
	Nairobi	Kenya
	Caracas	Venezuela
	Tegucigalpa	Honduras
	Algiers	Algeria
	Tbilisi	Georgia
	Djibouti	Djibouti
	Minsk	Belarus
	Kigali	Rwanda
	Havana	Cuba
	Islamabad	Pakistan
	Yaounde	Cameroon
	Phnom Penh	Cambodia
	Douala	Cameroon
	Baku	Azerbaijan
	Dar Es Salaam	Tanzania
	Lahore	Pakistan
	Luanda	Angola
	Yangon	Myanmar
	Karachi	Pakistan
	Tehran	Iran
	Lome	Togo
	Tashkent	Uzbekistan
	Abidjan	Ivory Coast
	Addis Ababa	Ethiopia
	Ashgabat	Turkmenistan
	Harare	Zimbabwe
	Bishkek	Kyrgyzstan
	Lagos	Nigeria
	Abuja	Nigeria
	Dushanbe	Tajikistan
	Dhaka	Bangladesh
	Ouagadougou	Burkina Faso
	Tripoli	Libya
	Niamey	Niger
	Antananarivo	Madagascar
	Bamako	Mali
	Nouakchott	Mauritania
	Conakry	Guinea Republic
	Kinshasa	DR Congo
	Brazzaville	Congo
	Damascus	Syria
	N'Djamena	Chad
	Khartoum	Sudan
	Port-au-Prince	Haiti
	Sana'a	Yemen
	Bangui	Central A. Republic
	Baghdad	Iraq

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