Vienna tops 'quality of living' list

Lisa Bachelor The Guardian 05/26/2010 15:36

Oh Vienna: The Austrian capital has come top of a quality of living list.

Seven cities in Germany, Austria and Switzerland have been ranked among the 10 best in the world for quality of living, according to a survey published today.

Vienna has the world's best quality of living, according to global consultancy Mercer, with Zurich and Geneva just behind it and Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Munich and Bern also in the top 10.

Only five British cities made it into the top 100 – London is the highest at 39 followed by Aberdeen (53), Brimingham (55), Glasgow (57) and Belfast (63).

Popular cities including Manchester, Leeds, Newcastle and Edinburgh were omitted from the list on the grounds that they are not popular with companies as relocation bases. Baghdad and Port-au-Prince were in the bottom 10 of the 221 cities that the survey compared, with Baghdad at 221.

Vienna has topped the list for the past five years, with all countries measured on a point-scoring index against New York, which is given a base score of 100. New York itself was ranked 49 in the list just behind Washington and Chicago.

Cities are assessed on local living conditions and analysed according to 39 factors in 10 categories. These include political stability, banking services, waste disposal, standard and availability of international schools, restaurants and theatres, and record of natural disasters.

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