USA, USA, USA, USA, Oh Fudge We Didn’t Beat Out Ljubljana, Slovenia.

[Montagnard]

World-wide quality of life survey list of top cities by Mercer



LUXEMBOURG 122.5
HELSINKI, Finland 120
STOCKHOLM, Sweden 116
VIENNA, Austria 116
COPENHAGEN, Denmark 113
AMSTERDAM*, Netherlands 112
BRUSSELS, Belgium 111
DUBLIN, Ireland 110.5
BERLIN, Germany 109
LJUBLJANA, Slovenia 105
LISBON, Portugal 104
PARIS, France 103
LIMASSOL, Cyprus 100.5
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia 100
PRAGUE, Czech Republic 100
LONDON, United Kingdom 99
MADRID, Spain 99
VILNIUS, Lithuania 98.5
TALLINN, Estonia 96.5
BUDAPEST, Hungary 95.5
ROME, Italy 95.5
ATHENS, Greece 93.5
RIGA, Latvia 92
24 90 WARSAW, Poland 90.5

https://www.amcham.ch/news/content/top_ranking_GVA_ZRH_Mar05.pdf#search='www.imercer.com%2Fqol'

San Francisco made the list at 25, New York City made the list at 39

[Richard Steele]

1. Why does Amsterdam have that asterisk?

Oh, wait...I guess the other cities claimed Amsterdam
has an 'unfair advantage' when it comes to 'quality of life'.
:rofl: :rofl:

[muriel_volestrangler]

8. "Amsterdam is included as the main city for the Netherlands."

All the others are the EU capital cities (except Limassol, which is slightly smaller than the capital Nicosia - can't work out why they use it).

[JohnKleeb]

2. Woot I am part Slovenian

Seriously.

[Cleita]

5. Not Slovenian here.

But I spend a few evenings at the Slovenian Hall in Fontana with friends of mine quite a few years back.
:hi:
After that I spent time arguing with people that Slovenian wasn't Slovakian.

[JohnKleeb]

6. The funny thing is I am also Slovak

I believe in 2000 Bush got the two mixed up.

[Cleita]

11. He did.

:-)

[Greyhound]

3. Wow, so not only have we fallen behind every country in Western

Europe, we don't even have the highest standard in North America, and to top it all off, we've created the worst city on earth with what we've done to Baghdad. :eyes:

But they hate us for our freedom. :banghead:

[Hardrada]

4. They didn't forget Poland!

[muriel_volestrangler]

7. Mistake - your list is the EU rankings for personal safety and security

with New York as the comparative 100. The list in which SF is at 25, and NYC at 39, is for overall quality of life, and goes as follows:

Base city: New York (=100)
Rank 2005 Rank 2004 City Country Index 2005 Index 2004

1 1 GENEVA Switzerland 106.5 106.5
1 1 ZURICH Switzerland 106.5 106.5
3 3 VANCOUVER Canada 106 106
3 3 VIENNA Austria 106 106
5 5 FRANKFURT Germany 105.5 105
5 10 MUNICH Germany 105.5 104.5
5 12 DUSSELDORF Germany 105.5 104
8 5 AUCKLAND New Zealand 105 105
8 5 BERN Switzerland 105 105
8 5 COPENHAGEN Denmark 105 105
8 5 SYDNEY Australia 105 105
12 10 AMSTERDAM Netherlands 104.5 104.5
13 12 BRUSSELS Belgium 104 104
14 12 MELBOURNE Australia 103.5 104
14 15 BERLIN Germany 103.5 103.5
14 15 LUXEMBOURG Luxembourg 103.5 103.5
14 15 STOCKHOLM Sweden 103.5 103.5
14 15 TORONTO Canada 103.5 103.5
14 15 WELLINGTON New Zealand 103.5 103.5
20 20 OTTAWA Canada 103 103
20 20 PERTH Australia 103 103
22 20 NURNBERG Germany 102.5 103
22 23 DUBLIN Ireland 102.5 102.5
22 24 MONTREAL Canada 102.5 102
25 24 ADELAIDE Australia 102 102
25 24 CALGARY Canada 102 102
25 24 HAMBURG Germany 102 102
25 24 HELSINKI Finland 102 102
25 24 HONOLULU, HI United States 102 102
25 24 SAN FRANCISCO, CA United States 102 102
31 24 BRISBANE Australia 101.5 102
31 32 OSLO Norway 101.5 101.5
31 32 PARIS France 101.5 101.5
34 34 SINGAPORE Singapore 101 101
34 34 TOKYO Japan 101 101
36 36 LYON France 100.5 100.5
36 36 YOKOHAMA Japan 100.5 100.5
36 42 BOSTON, MA United States 100.5 99.5
39 36 LONDON United Kingdom 100 100.5
39 39 KOBE Japan 100 100
39 39 NEW YORK CITY, NY United States 100 100
42 39 MADRID Spain 99 100
42 42 PORTLAND, OR United States 99 99.5
42 45 BARCELONA Spain 99 98.5
42 52 WASHINGTON, DC United States 99 97.5
46 44 WINSTON SALEM, NC United States 98.5 99
46 45 LEXINGTON, KY United States 98.5 98.5
46 45 OSAKA Japan 98.5 98.5
46 45 PITTSBURGH, PA United States 98.5 98.5
46 45 SEATTLE, WA United States 98.5 98.5
51 50 CHICAGO, IL United States 98 98
51 50 MILAN Italy 98 98

[muriel_volestrangler]

9. In fact, this is last year's survey - this year's came out today

though the results are broadly similar.

http://www.mercerhr.com/referencecontent.jhtml?idContent=1173105
Top 50

New York has now dropped to 46th.

[Javaman]

10. # 25! #25! yeah, we rule, yeah...ummm, yeah...oh forget it. nt