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	June 14, 2003

TRADE OFF: BEST CITIES IN THE WORLD TO LIVE There are at least a dozen surveys done each year that purport to tell you what the best city is to live in. Unfortunately, generally, the best cities also seem to be the most expensive. So I decided to develop a composite ranking of cities' quality of life and cost of living. I took two recent quality of life survey rankings, and two recent cost of living survey rankings (cheapest to most expensive), and computed the average combined ranking. Here are the results: CITY QL CL 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 AUCKLAND, NZ VANCOUVER, CA SYDNEY, AU MELBOURNE, AU FRANKFURT, DE WELLINGTON, NZ PERTH, AU TORONTO, CA LUXEMBOURG, LU MUNICH, DE VIENNA, AT BRISBANE, AU MONTREAL, CA OTTAWA, CA AMSTERDAM, NL BRUSSELS, BE DUSSELDORF, DE HELSINKI, FI ADELAIDE, AU COPENHAGEN, DK HAMBURG, DE STOCKHOLM, SE CALGARY, CA ZURICH, CH BERLIN, DE NURNBERG, DE GENEVA, CH BERN, CH LYON, FR MADRID, ES SAN FRANCISCO, US HONOLULU, US OSLO, NO DUBLIN, IE SEATTLE, US PARIS, FR WINSTON SALEM, US LOS ANGELES, US BOSTON, US WASHINGTON, US 7 3 4 13 6 23 21 19 18 11 2 30 25 28 12 17 16 9 37 8 27 14 34 1 24 26 5 10 40 47 20 22 15 36 32 31 41 35 44 48 1 12 15 8 17 2 5 11 14 22 31 4 9 6 23 18 20 27 3 32 13 26 7 42 21 19 44 42 16 10 37 36 43 24 28 34 25 38 33 35 12:47:20 PM  trackback []  comment []

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