Dublin Ranked 25th For Quality of Life

WindSock

But dropped to 58th regarding infrastructure....


http://www.rte.ie/news/2009/0428/dublin1.html



A report from consulting group Mercer has placed Dublin 25th of 215 cities for its 'quality of life'.
This is the same ranking as last year.
The 2009 Quality of Living report, which is used by companies re-locating staff to other countries, shows that Vienna has overtaken Zurich, with Geneva third. Vancouver and Auckland were joint fourth.


Dublin is given a higher ranking that Paris (33rd), London (38th) and Barcelona (42nd).
However, Dublin falls to 58th in the part of the report dealing with city infrastructure.
Singapore is ranked top for infrastructure, which includes transport, electricity, telecoms and water, with Munich second and Copenhagen third.
Mercer says the data were collected in September and October last year but are updated regularly to take account of new developments.

Top 10 (last year's ranking in brackets):
1 Vienna (2)
2 Zurich (1)
3 Geneva (2)
4 Vancouver (4)
4 Auckland (5)
6 Dusseldorf (6)
7 Munich (7)
8 Frankfurt (7)
9 Bern (9)
10 Sydney (10)

Jay D

I have to say I am gone way past caring.

What new developments have we gotten in the past how many years? Port tunnel and M50. Nothing else afaik to make us climb any further, if anything we will only slide more and more.

I hate it here not and am really just counting down till I get the hell out for a very extended period of time.

lightening

I would advise you to get out of Ireland altogether if you can't enjoy yourself here. Dublin is one of the best places in the country to live, very few places offer the amenities, services and things to do that Dublin does! If you are down living in Dublin, you will be worse off else where in the country!

Wild Bill

...you always take the weather with you, as the song says. 25th is not bad for a place with no infrastructure! And as well as the motorways we have two Luas lines, improved commuter trains, numerous bus lanes and cycle strips.

Now we just need to join it all up.

But yeah, deffo one of the best places in the world to live

markopantelic

Good to see. 2 Swiss in the top 3, impressive

thing is though frankfurt is a terrible city from what i remember, how do they measure quality of life from what perspective?

uriah

lightening wrote: »

I would advise you to get out of Ireland altogether if you can't enjoy yourself here. Dublin is one of the best places in the country to live, very few places offer the amenities, services and things to do that Dublin does! If you are down living in Dublin, you will be worse off else where in the country!

How do you know this? Have you lived in many places in Ireland?

I live in the south-west. I love living here. Everything I want is available to me within a reasonable distance (and time).

I do like to visit Dublin, which is becoming closer (time-wise) all the time because of better train/bus service and improved road-structure.

But the 'best place to live' is depends on a person's wants and needs.
Dublin may be the best place for you, but not for me.

spurious

markopantelic wrote: »

thing is though frankfurt is a terrible city from what i remember, how do they measure quality of life from what perspective?

That's what I was thinking when I saw Frankfurt mentioned.

Euro_Kraut

markopantelic wrote: »

Good to see. 2 Swiss in the top 3, impressive

thing is though frankfurt is a terrible city from what i remember, how do they measure quality of life from what perspective?

This is the best insight they offer without actually buying the report: http://www.mercer.com/referencecontent.htm?idContent=1306640

Frankfurt is not that bad of a place. Reputation for being a bit dull. But I guess good employment opportunities and the airport is pretty good. The average incomes their are probably much higher than Berlin which might explain why it is ranked higher.