From the top 10 cities - where would you want to live? (pics)
 

MERCER World-wide quality of life survey ? Ranking

#1 Zurich, Switzerland
http://www.ecs.umass.edu/temp/GRSS_H...%20/Zurich.jpg

#2 Geneva, Switzerland
http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/...rcityview1.jpg

#3 Vancouver, Canada
http://rmmla.wsu.edu/images/Vancouver/Skyline.jpg

#4 Vienna, Austria
http://www.bigfoto.com/Sites/galery/...en_hofburg.jpg

#5 Auckland, New Zealand
http://www.visitmytown.com/auckland/ak1.jpg

#6 Bern, Switzerland
http://www.mrfs.net/trips/2002/Switz...bern_above.jpg

#7 Copenhagen, Denmark
http://bornholm.kripke.de/Bilder/kop...huspladsen.jpg

#8 Frankfurt, Germany
http://www.kiinnostaa.net/timo/pics/...ankfurt_22.jpg

#9 Sydney, Australia
http://www.multinet.no/~trojen/austr...rds%20View.jpg

#10 Amsterdam, The Netherlands
http://www.vanijperen.net/amsterdam/Amsterdam_Red.jpg

Sydney would be my choice :thumbsup

I'm already living in the #3 city...so why move up?:glugglug

I live in #10 and go on trips to the rest of the top 10...........Im happy

top ten cities and you leave out New York,SD,Detroit,Boston, Philli

Going to number 9 would be cool

No. MERCER

Montreal should be there

haha Detroit???? ever been outside the US?

Who the fuck named sydney the best city in Australia?

ever been in Europe?

Amsterdam!

Geneva is defenetely my choice

how come no nyc ?

ranked #24 :thumbsup

ranked #38

I think I'd choose denmark or one of CH's cities

barcelona???

From the images, Zurich looks stunning, as do Auckland and Sydney. Though I have never been to any of those places. :1orglaugh

Zurich, Sydney, and then Amsterdam. :thumbsup

Amsterdam would probably be a lot more fun, but Zurich sure is pleasing to look at:glugglug

#44

Sydney. I lived there almost 12 years. Great place :thumbsup

Out of those 10 probably Vancouver.
I've lived next to Geneva, in france though, and the climate is too cold for my taste (says a guy currently living in the fucking arctic circle):1orglaugh

Vancouvere or Vienna

well i suppose it depends what you want. quality of life can = boring, no atmosphere or character. barcelona is great

Yup, have been there two times! Really a great city :thumbsup

Auckland, New Zealand looks nice

Looks like New York was taken as standard.
100 pts.
So every city "better as" New York scores above 100.

I think Honolulu (#24) would be nice, too !
Someone on this board already lived in that city for some time ?

Vancouver :thumbsup

Vancouver in the summer...Amsterdam in the winter

Netherlands or Canada

zurich switzerland looks beautiful..the first one ya got there

Vancouver, Canada

Or Sevilla.

what are the criteria for these rankings??

Barcelona for sure!!

Montreal in the summer

and Thailand in the winter..(I'm biased):winkwink:

Anywhere in Switzerland:thumbsup

Mercer?s study is based on detailed assessments and evaluations of 39 key quality of life determinants, grouped in the following categories:

Consumer goods (availability of food/daily consumption items, cars, etc)

Economic environment (currency exchange regulations, banking services, etc)

Housing (housing, household appliances, furniture, maintenance services, etc)

Medical and health considerations (medical supplies and services, infectious diseases, sewage, waste disposal, air pollution, etc)

Natural environment (climate, record of natural disasters)

Political and social environment (political stability, crime, law enforcement, etc)

Public services and transportation (electricity, water, public transport, traffic congestion, etc)

Recreation (restaurants, theatres, cinemas, sports, and leisure etc)

Schools and education (standard and availability of schools etc)

Socio-cultural environment (censorship, limitations on personal freedom, etc)

i wanna move to phoenix, cause my older brother is there, suppose to be awesome there.

Living in London is great because I have most of those places in easy reach. Such beautiful cities and not one of them looks the same. That is part of the joy of Europe in particular.

really ???
what about this?

http://www.goldswil.ch/park/images/g...ngfraujoch.jpg

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

N Y C

If that grey thing is a house, I would definitely live there!

in fact, its a restaurant :thumbsup

:1orglaugh Nice!

Amsterdam looks very cool on that pic :thumbsup

Where can I get the rest of the rankings?

Out of all those pics, vancouver looks the best. :)

LINK

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