Barcelona among top 50 cities with best quality of life in the world
Tuesday, March 14, 2017 @ 11:32 PM
BARCELONA has snuck into the top 50 'most liveable cities' according to this year's global quality of life survey, but Madrid has failed to make it for another year – although only just.
The Spanish capital has moved up a notch from 52 to 51, and although Barcelona has dropped from its 39 last year, it is still comfortably within the list at 42.
Created every year by the HR consultancy company Mercer, the 'quality of life' study preamble says that 'despite political and financial turbulence in Europe', the highest number of 'liveable' cities in the world are found on this continent.
Vienna, Austria is where quality of life is best in the world, for the eighth year running and ahead of Zürich, Switzerland; Auckland, New Zealand; and Munich, Germany in fourth place.
Along with Vancouver in Canada, Auckland is only the second non-European city to make it into the top 10 'most liveable' list.
Germany and Switzerland have the most cities where quality of life is among the 50 best in the world, with Düsseldorf and Frankfurt (Germany) and Geneva and Basel (Switzerland) also appearing in the top 10.
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