#12 with a bullet

A new sur­vey pub­lished by Mer­cer Human Resource Con­sult­ing rates Wel­ling­ton as the 12th best city to live in, based on the qual­ity of liv­ing offered to res­id­ents. Auck­land comes in a very respect­able 5th, with the rest of the top 12 filled out by Zurich, Geneva, Van­couver, Vienna, Dus­sel­dorf, Frank­furt, Munich, Bern, Sydney and Copen­ha­gen.

Amer­ic­an cit­ies don’t get a show-in until Hon­olulu gets them off the mark at 27th (much to the delight of the Cana­dian press, who aren’t shy about point­ing out their south­ern neigh­bours lower pla­cings).

Can­’t say the pres­ence of Dus­sel­dorf and Bern in the top 10 fills us with a great deal of con­fid­ence in the accur­acy of the sur­vey, though.