Want a great quality of life? Start packing (No US cities in Top 25 under obozo)

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[Red in Blue PA]

The top 25 cities on the latest Mercer Quality of Living Rankings don’t include even one metro area from the United States.

The highest-ranked U.S. cities on the list include San Francisco (27), Boston (33), and Honolulu (36). The list considers 39 factors, including political and social environment, economic environment, and healthcare conditions, in more than 440 cities.

[vette6387]

“Article is bunk. Any “Quality of Living Ranking” that has
San Francisco, Boston,or Honolulu over any city in Texas
is about a full bubble off.”

You are off your meds, or you are a Texan, or maybe both! Texas weather is the worst in the country. Humidity, bugs, hail storms, rain like a cow pissing on a flat rock! No thanks, you can have my spot!

[logi_cal869]

I stopped at the last US city on the list. FWIW, Baghdad was last @ 230. 2015 City Rankings

Rank City Country

1	Vienna	Austria
2	Zurich	Switzerland
3	Auckland	New Zealand
4	Munich	Germany
5	Vancouver	Canada
6	Dusseldorf	Germany
7	Frankfurt	Germany
8	Geneva	Switzerland
9	Copenhagen	Denmark
10	Sydney	Australia
11	Amsterdam	Netherlands
12	Wellington	New Zealand
13	Bern	Switzerland
14	Berlin	Germany
15	Toronto	Canada
16	Hamburg	Germany
16	Melbourne	Australia
16	Ottawa	Canada
19	Luxembourg	Luxembourg
19	Stockholm	Sweden
21	Stuttgart	Germany
22	Brussels	Belgium
22	Perth	Australia
24	Montreal	Canada
25	Nurnberg	Germany
26	Singapore	Singapore
27	Adelaide	Australia
27	Paris	France
27	San Francisco	United States
30	Canberra	Australia
31	Helsinki	Finland
31	Oslo	Norway
33	Calgary	Canada
34	Boston	United States
34	Dublin	Ireland
36	Honolulu	United States
37	Brisbane	Australia
38	Barcelona	Spain
39	Lyon	France
40	London	United Kingdom
41	Lisbon	Portugal
41	Milan	Italy
43	Chicago	United States
44	New York City	United States
44	Seattle	United States
44	Tokyo	Japan
47	Kobe	Japan
48	Los Angeles	United States
48	Yokohama	Japan
50	Washington	United States
51	Madrid	Spain
52	Birmingham	United Kingdom
52	Rome	Italy
54	Pittsburgh	United States
55	Glasgow	United Kingdom
55	Philadelphia	United States
57	Aberdeen	United Kingdom
58	Osaka	Japan
59	Leipzig	Germany
60	Minneapolis	United States
61	Nagoya	Japan
62	Dallas	United States
63	Belfast	United Kingdom
64	Houston	United States
65	Miami	United States
66	Atlanta	United States
67	St. Louis	United States
68	Prague	Czech Republic
69	Pointe-a-Pitre	Guadeloupe
70	Detroit	United States

[Kozel89]

These are generally useless surveys for regular folks. It’s done for people wrapped in a corporate bubble.

“The study is used by multinational companies to determine compensation packages for workers that they send abroad.”

[aquila48]

Gee that doesn’t sound at all like El Paso.

[Stand W]

Nope. If Norman, ok isn’t on the list, then the list is compiled by pajama boy-bed wetting-journalism majors with a healthy dose of transnational Marxism and outsized white guilt. I mean, sure, everything is worse with the dogeater on the throne and the GOPes feigning opposition, but if you can survive out weather, you can’t beat it.

[albie]

I agree with an earlier post about Dallas is an awesome city to live in. This is BS. I live in Richmond, VA and it’s an excellent place to live. SF?! Are they f-in kidding?! Boston???!!! I lived in Boston and never met more nasty, arrogant people in my life. One of the most unfriendly cities I’ve ever been to. Harrisburg, PA is also a very nice town. As is Portsmouth, NH. Pinehurst, NC is a great place to live.

[vette6387]

“Gee that doesn’t sound at all like El Paso.”

Well, in reality, El Paso is more like New Mexico South now isn’t it! I “turned down the chance” to manage a plant in Graham, TX. You know “Gateway to the Possum Kingdom Lake.” While I was there on a visit, a summer hailstorm beat the living $hit out of all the A/C units on the roof of the building and trashed a bunch of cars there that were unlucky enough not to haver gotten spots in the covered parking area. And as soon as the storm was gone, the humidity shot up to 110%. That’s the weather in “most” of Texas in my experience and I’ve been to most of the state over the years.

[Gay State Conservative]

I've been to 18 of the top 20 cities (not Vancouver or Luxembourg).One important thing they fail to tell you is that most of these cities are breathtakingly expensive.If you look at lists of the world's most expensive cities you find that they almost completely jibe with this list.

[Gay State Conservative]

I lived in Boston and never met more nasty, arrogant people in my life. One of the most unfriendly cities I’ve ever been to.

WHAT THE **** ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT! YOU COME UP HERE AND SAY THAT AND I'LL **** YOU UP SO BAD.....

[Cicero]

Just so. I’m not a city person. I very much prefer living in the country. But if I had to live in a city, I’d choose New York, with a job in Manhattan and an apartment in Brooklyn.

It’s not cheap. But if you have the money (unfortunately, I don’t), there’s far more to do than any other city in America. Theaters, museums, parks, zoos, Chinatown, Little India, etc.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

One man’s best place is not another’s favorite. Such is the power of choice.

I think the big lesson is that America has been going downhill on many rankings as Asia rises.

[muir_redwoods]

Detroit is ahead of Santa Re? Really?

[Milton Miteybad]

The fact that Detroit is even on a "best of anything" list (except for a list of the best places to be a victim of violent crime) makes me question the whole exercise.

Then again...maybe it helps your city's quality of life if nobody can actually afford to live there. It would keep the riff-raff out, for sure.

[John S Mosby]

Detroit= USA future under these venture socialists.

[John S Mosby]

Taxachussetts? Sorry FRiend. The place is a very expensive place to try to live, thus the welfare state to provide
fake “currency” to just make it. Don’t care how smart they think they are. Way past all rational thought or relation to John Adams et cie.

[Wolfie]

Socialist strongholds with national healthcare seem to dominate.

[sportutegrl]

I hate these city rankings. Based on what criteria? Political and Social Environment? I assume that means liberal. My criteria would include:

Income Taxes

Property Tax Rates

Utility costs

Insurance costs

Availability of Charter Schools/School Choice

Absence of stupid, irrational laws that limit your freedom to do what you want with your property, smoke, shop, drink whatever size soda you want, own a gun, etc.

Funny, I never see an article ranking cities/metropolitian areas based on what I think is important.

[Moonman62]

San Francisco (27), Boston (33), and Honolulu (36)

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Top liberal cesspools as most cities are.

However, there are excellent areas to be found in almost every region of the US.

[Mr. Jeeves]

Baloney. Dallas/Ft Worth is very livable.

But...but...they are rednecks! With guns!

And they make homophobic remarks! :)

[bobby.223]

I’ll stay right here, out and up in the beautiful mountains!