Austrian capital Vienna, which lies on the Danube River at the top of the list of Mercer Consulting for cities that provide the highest level of quality of life for the eighth consecutive year, while considered the Iraqi capital Baghdad, again the worst place to live.
And helps the survey of 231 city companies and organizations to determine wages and allowances of difficulties for international staff. It uses scanning dozens of criteria, such as political stability, health care, education, crime, transport and entertainment.
Global cities such as London, Paris and New York City did not come up within the first 30 cities, down from the largest cities in Germany, Scandinavia, Canada, New Zealand and Australia.
Singapore came in first place among the Asian cities in the ranking of 25 in the world, while the city of San Francisco, which came in the standings 29 at the level of the first world in the United States. The city of Durban in South Africa, the first city in the black continent, and in the arrangement 87 in the world.
And benefit the population of Vienna's 1.8 people of cultural cafes, museums, theaters and opera houses. And rental prices and move in the city, which is characterized by its architectural style of its past as a center of the Austro-Hungarian empire, which is cheap compared to other Western capitals.
It came the Swiss city of Zurich and Auckland New Zealand and Munich and the German Vancouver after Vienna.