Where does your city rank?
the art of living well—and now that restaurants and museums in the Austrian capital have reopened, it is once again the perfect place to practise the art. A new, our sister company, agrees. For the third time in the past five years, Vienna has come top of theranking. The city offers plenty of opportunities for culture and entertainment, as well as good infrastructure and overall stability.
Originally designed as a tool to help companies assign hardship allowances as part of expatriates’ relocation packages, theindex rates living conditions in 172 cities based on more than 30 factors. These are grouped into five categories: stability, health care, culture and environment, education and infrastructure.
A partial return to normality is not confined to western Europe. Three Canadian cities have moved into the top ten, while New York, Los Angeles and Washington, DC have all improved compared with last year. According to, which tracks travel, recreation and office use, activity in America and Canada is now at around nine-tenths of pre-pandemic levels. Global activity is only around one-sixth lower than before the virus emerged.
For some cities to rise, others must fall. Every city in China has slipped down the rankings, and cities in island nations with strong border controls that scored wellare suffering now. Auckland came top last year, with few covid cases and even fewer restrictions. But in March, when the survey was conducted, the highly contagious Omicron strain caused a spike in cases in New Zealand—and the city dropped 33 places.
correspondent had to abandon the survey when fighting broke out. Moscow and St Petersburg have dropped 15 and 13 places to 80th and 88th, as hundreds of
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