Each year, Deutsche Bank releases a report on the costs of goods and services in major cities around the globe. This year, the report also includes cities ranked for their quality of life. The factors behind the rankings included purchasing power, safety, health care, cost of living, property price to income ratio, traffic commute time, pollution and climate. Where the cities fall in the lineup depends on how they fared in each of the categories. The top-ranked city is Wellington, New Zealand (shown above.)
Business Insider notes, "Officially the city with the world's highest quality of life, according to Deutsche Bank, New Zealand's capital has the least pollution of any city ranked, and finished in the top ten in four other categories."
If you're looking to move to a city that balances some of the most important factors for enjoyment of life, you might want to look into these locations first. Based on these factors, here's how the top 26 out of the 47 ranked cities fall:
26. Oslo, Norway
25. Johannesburg, South Africa
24. Brussels, Belgium
23. Warsaw, Poland
22. Chicago
21. Dublin, Ireland
20. Stockholm, Sweden
19. Prague, Czech Republic
18. San Francisco
17. Cape Town, South Africa
15. Lisbon, Portugal
14. Toronto, Canada
13. Auckland, New Zealand
12. Berlin, Germany
11. Helsinki, Finland
10. Sydney, Australia
9. Amsterdam, Netherlands
8. Boston
7. Ottawa, Canada
6. Copenhagen, Denmark
5. Zurich, Switzerland
4. Melbourne, Australia
3. Vienna, Austria
2. Edinburgh, U.K.
1. Wellington, New Zealand
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