Zurich did it again!

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Küsel

Discussion Starter · Apr 10, 2006

Mercer Ranking of Life Quality 2006:

# Zurich scores highest for quality of living, Baghdad ranks lowest
# Cities in Canada, Europe and Australia dominate the top of the rankings
# Honolulu is the highest ranking city in the US; Houston is the lowest
# London remains at position 39; Birmingham and Glasgow both climb one place to joint 55th position

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http://www.mercerhr.com/referencecontent.jhtml?idContent=1173105

We did it again! Ooops, or did that reach now already too far into the blasphemious CvC department?

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kostya

· #2 · Apr 10, 2006

Well done Zurich

kay: !

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dmg1mn

· #3 · Apr 10, 2006

Baghdad is the lowest :lol:

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kebabmonster

· #4 · Apr 10, 2006

Glad you find it funny

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Küsel

Discussion Starter · #5 · Apr 10, 2006

What ranking did Baghdad get BEFORE the war? For it was always Brazzaville and Kinshasa as well as Kabul that had the last rank...

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sydney_lad

· #6 · Apr 10, 2006

Well done Zurich.

I defeanately need to visit one day, see what they're doing right over there.

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Küsel

Discussion Starter · #7 · Apr 10, 2006

At the moment there is a big construction boom over here, including several highrises (highest, the Maag or Prime Tower will become the tallest in the country)

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OtAkAw

· #8 · Apr 10, 2006

No wonder Tina Turner moved in to Zurich!

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sydney_lad

· #9 · Apr 10, 2006

What kind of government does Switzerland have?

Also, very well done to New Zealand.

Auckland and Wellington seem to be climbing the list.

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LtBk

· #10 · Apr 10, 2006

Kuesel said:
At the moment there is a big construction boom over here, including several highrises (highest, the Maag or Prime Tower will become the tallest in the country)

Big construction boom? I thought the Swiss hated that kind of stuff.

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Zurich 108.2
Geneva 108.1
Vancouver 107.7
Vienna 107.5
Auckland 107.3
Dusseldorf 107.2
Frankfurt 107.0
Munich 106.8
Bern 106.5
Sydney 106.5
Copenhagen 106.2
Wellington 105.8
Amsterdam 105.7
Brussels 105.6
Toronto 105.4
Berlin 105.1
Melbourne 105.0
Luxembourg 104.8
Stockholm 104.7
Perth 104.5
Montreal 104.3
Nurnberg 104.1
Dublin 103.8
Calgary 103.6
Hamburg 103.4
Honolulu 103.3
San Francisco 103.2
Adelaide 103.1
Helsinki 103.1

http://www.mercerhr.com/pressreleas...5;jsessionid=D1YPKDBU15GT0CTGOUFCHPQKMZ0QUI2C

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defi

· #12 · Apr 10, 2006

well for a country like switzerland the construction boom is really large...but compared to any other places it's not worth mentioning.

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Tubeman

· #13 · Apr 10, 2006

It may top this list, but I know where I'd rather live...

Its always going to be small to medium sized cities that top these surveys; truly global cities (the places that people actually clamour to live in) have their drawbacks through their popularity (crime, pollution, congestion, etc) which mark them down.

You can't quantify dynamism or 'buzz'.

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defi

· #14 · Apr 10, 2006

sydney_lad said:
What kind of government does Switzerland have?

Also, very well done to New Zealand.

Auckland and Wellington seem to be climbing the list.

the government of switzerland consists of four big parties: social democrats (SP), christian democrats (CVP), liberal democrats (FDP) and the right wing "swiss people's party".

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defi

· #15 · Apr 10, 2006

cities like vienna, amsterdam or toronto have also quite a lot of "buzz"

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samsonyuen

· #16 · Apr 10, 2006

Good job, Zurich.

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scorpion

· #17 · Apr 10, 2006

nice to see Z give geneve a gentle kick in the rear!~

and Amsterdam (finally) trumps Brussels!!

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sydney_lad

· #18 · Apr 10, 2006

defi said:
the government of switzerland consists of four big parties: social democrats (SP), christian democrats (CVP), liberal democrats (FDP) and the right wing "swiss people's party".

Which one is in power?