Tag: mercer survey

Still the 12th nicest city in the world

Not much move­ment at the top of the Mer­cer Human Resource Con­sult­ing “Most Liv­able Cit­ies” rank­ings this year, with, like last year, Wel­ling­ton com­ing in 12th, trail­ing our north­ern neigh­bours Auck­land, who come in at a very cred­ible 5th. In fact, there’s really no move­ment at all in the top 20, with Zurich and Geneva still 1st and 2nd respect­ively, Van­couver 3rd, Vienna 4th, before a bunch of Ger­man cit­ies slot in below Auck­land. The rank­ings are …

based on 39 key qual­ity-of-life issues. They include polit­ic­al sta­bil­ity, cur­rency-exchange reg­u­la­tions, polit­ic­al and media cen­sor­ship, school qual­ity, hous­ing, the envir­on­ment and pub­lic safety.

More of the table here.

Wellington: the world’s 12th nicest city

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.