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The best cities are always the ones with the highest crime rate lol, thats where everything is happening, add great scenery and some great people. Oh and the most fun to be had has to be in the ghettos. Surburbia is just boring with white picket fences everyone locked up with a gun strapped to thier scared ass! I must say Southern Africa is really a lively place. Cape Town and Windhoek (lower crime rate than Cape Town) nice cities definately!!
i agree with DawnW about Dubai but I'm also surprised that Singaphore is not there !!..It is one of the greatest countries and cleanest .!!they say that the punishment of a drug dealer is death.!!!!they care so much for thier country!!! Indonesia also is one of the greatest in everything .i've experienced living there for a month and while i was eating in a restaurant at the top of a mountain a cloud went thru me and my friend .it was an amazing feeling !!!you really feel that ur flying on the clouds and oh not mentioning the weather .the weather was marvilous .it is really heaven of earth..
This particular survey is based on opinions by employees who are seconded to different cities. Most, if not all, are very high-paid professionals, with a lot of their expenses paid for, or compensated by their companies, i.e., rents, company cars, flights home, cost-of-living assistance, etc.
This is not the average Joe's world, or the average person's idea of best place to live. Your quality of life won't be as great if you have to pay high housing costs yourself, pay for your own car and its running costs, or have to live in far-off suburbs and have to deal with the terrible traffic on a day to day basis.
Those surveyed in this study will be able to live in high-rent districts, the company helping to pay for that, closer to where they work so they don't experience the horrible traffic. And if the weather is crap, they can afford to jet off some place warm more regularly than the average person.
Although there's an element of useful truth to these surveys, they really shouldn't be viewed as the only valid source of info on Best Place to Live, or make you think if your city is not in the top ten that's it's a bad place to live.
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This topic is about individual preference in life, depending on each person, other than set universal standards in life for everyone.
I noticed the website link is having way too much emphasis on economic wealth, and economic security mostly for the wealthiest elite people, some other relatively sterile bland statistics, and sacrificing some other important characteristics in the quality of life of a place, at least for cities such as Dusseldorf, Munich, Frankfurt, Bern, Luxembourg, Ottawa. I don’t agree with those cities and they seem relatively dull for most people.
The website link should have included more important characteristics in quality of life, and being more well balanced for what they included over there.
However, I at least agree with a decent amount of cities in the World’s Top 20 best places to live in list, 9 out of 20 places total: Vienna, Geneva, Vancouver, Sydney, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Brussels, Melbourne, Stockholm.
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