Vienna Ranked World's Nicest City, and Baghdad is Worst

Vienna Ranked World's Nicest City, and Baghdad is Worst

Vienna, the great Austrian capital on the banks of the Danube, passed by consulting the list of cities that offer the highest quality of life for the eighth consecutive year firm Mercer, while Baghdad is still considered the worst place to live.




The survey of 231 cities helps companies and organizations to determine the compensation payments and discomfort for international staff. It uses dozens of criteria such as politics influence , public health, public education , local crime,  and public convence.

global centers of London, Paris, Tokyo and New York did not even make the top 30, in the biggest German cities lagging, Scandinavian, Canadian, New Zealand and Australia.

Singapore was the highest ranking Asian city at 25 and 29 in San Francisco was the highest ranking US voice '. Topping the list was in Africa South Africa Durban 87.



1.8 million inhabitants of Vienna benefit from the culture of coffee in town and museums, theaters and operas. The rents and public transport expenses of the city, whose architecture is marked by its past as the center of the Habsburg Empire, are cheap compared to other Western capitals.

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An advent market seen in front of the Karlskirche in Vienna. (Reuters Photo)

Switzerland Zurich, Auckland, New Zealand, Germany and Monaco Vancouver of Canada Vienna followed in the top five of the most pleasant city to live in.

Baghdad was again ranked lowest in the world. Waves of sectarian violence swept through Baghdad after the US invasion conducted in 2003.

Six years in the bloody war of Syria, Damascus was ranked seventh from bottom, with Bangui, Central African Republic, the Yemeni capital Sanaa, Haiti Port-au-Prince, Khartoum in Sudan and Chad N'Djamena filling in the bottom of the list.

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