Make yourself at home in these cities! Every year, Mercer Human Resource Consulting publishes a ranking of our cities concerned with quality of living. This year, Mercer researched 215 cities. Interestingly, some “famous” major cities did not make it to the top: Paris was ranked 33, London 39 and New York only 47. Overall, there are only marginal changes of this year’s list compared to 2006. Here are the best top ten cities in the world with (Country) and [rank 2007 / rank 2006]:

• Zürich (Switzerland) [1/1]
• Geneva (Switzerland) [2/2]
• Vancouver (Canada) [3/3]
• Vienna (Austria) [3/4]
• Auckland (New Zealand) [5/5]
• Düsseldorf (Germany) [5/6]
• Frankfurt (Germany) [7/7]
• Munich (Germany) [8/8]
• Bern (Switzerland) [9/9]
• Sydney (Australia) [9/9]

Mercer’s research is based on assessments and evaluations of 39 quality of living determinants, which were clustered as follows:

• Political and social environment (political stability, crime, law enforcement, etc)
• Economic environment (currency exchange regulations, banking services, etc)
• Socio-cultural environment (censorship, limitations on personal freedom, etc)
• Health and sanitation (medical supplies and services, infectious diseases, sewage, waste disposal, air pollution, etc)
• Schools and education (standard and availability of international schools, etc)
• Public services and transportation (electricity, water, public transport, traffic congestion, etc)
• Recreation (restaurants, theatres, cinemas, sports and leisure, etc)
• Consumer goods (availability of food/daily consumption items, cars, etc)
• Housing (housing, household appliances, furniture, maintenance services, etc)
• Natural environment (climate, record of natural disasters)

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Interestingly, Frankfurt was voted 2nd in PerfectCity’s poll “the ugliest cities of the world” - In conclusion one could say, that Frankfurt is not the most beautiful city, but a city with sound quality of living. What do you think about that and how do you perceive the results of Mercer’s research?

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