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RPT-Once more, Vienna ranked world's nicest city and Baghdad worst

Published 2016-02-23, 04:03 a/m
© Reuters. RPT-Once more, Vienna ranked world's nicest city and Baghdad worst

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VIENNA, Feb 23 (Reuters) - Vienna, Austria's grand capital
on the Danube river, offers the highest quality of life of all
cities in the world, while the Iraqi capital Baghdad, once more,
took its place at the bottom of the list compiled by consulting
firm Mercer.
The survey of 230 cities helps companies and organisations
determine compensation and hardship allowances for international
staff. It uses dozens of criteria such as political stability,
health care, education, crime, recreation and transport.
Vienna's 1.7 million inhabitants benefit from the city's
cafe culture and museums, theatres and operas. Rents and public
transport costs in the city whose architecture is marked by its
past as the centre of the Habsburg empire are cheap compared
with other western capitals.
Switzerland's Zurich, New Zealand's Auckland, Germany's
Munich and Canada's Vancouver followed Vienna - which reached
the best position for the seventh time in a row - in the top
five of most pleasant cities to live in.
Baghdad was again ranked lowest in the world. Waves of
sectarian violence have swept through the city since the
American-led invasion in 2003.

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