Our post on Wel­ling­ton’s 12th pla­cing in the recent Mer­cer HR Qual­ity of Life table has had the pleas­ant side-effect of cata­pault­ing Wel­ling­ton (and the Wel­ling­tonista) to the top of the Google rank­ings for a search on ‘nicest city in the world’.

We’ll take Google’s word over Mer­cer­’s any day.