Switzerland seems like the place to be...
Apparently every year Mercer, an HR company, gathers heaps of information and does a survey on 143 cities around the world. They rank the cities on cost and quality of living. You can look at the lists here. A few cool things I noticed...
- The top 5 cities in North America for quality of life were Canadian...interpret as you might but I think that is pretty sad for our little American neighbours...
- I'm soon gonna be living very near the second most expensive city in the world
- Despite the fact that Sex in the City would have me believe that New York is a very expensive place to live, it only came 15! I'm guessing they don't factor in increased access to expensively beautiful things which might up the cost of living
- Calgary is the number 1 city! Well, for health and sanitation anyways....followed not too far behind by Ottawa...
- If you want a good quality of life, go to Switzerland, Zurich and Geneva are at the top of the list for quality of life. (they ranked 7th and 9th for cost, guess you gotta pay for the good life somehow...)
- Melbourne is a pretty unremarkable but good place to be...17th for quality of life, 43rd for health and sanitation and it doesn't even make the expensive city top 50.
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