It's very easy to recognize a bogus livable cities ranking: if it doesn't include a single Swiss city in its Top 10, like the list above, look elsewhere. Econom

It's very easy to recognize a bogus livable cities ranking: if it doesn't include a single Swiss city in its Top 10, like the list above, look elsewhere. Economist Intelligence Unit, a body that compiled the list above tend to be heavily skewed towards Anglo-Saxon countries and doesn't get any money for its lists as far as I know. This means that they can be very much like Monocle and just include in the list the cities they themselves like (Monocle constantly puts Copenhagen very highly in their lists). Fine for them, as long as they don't sell the list for hard currency. There is a company though that sells their livable cities rankings for hard currency, and this company is Mercer. Mercer has its own very systematic methodology fo measuring livability and because of that multinational companies use Mercer's lists to come up with salaries they pay for the same job description in different countries. Mercer's list (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercer_Quality_of_Living_Survey https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercer_Quality_of_Living_Surve...) for several years in a row is topped with Vienna and only contains less that a third of non-European cities in its top 30, which absolutely correctly reflects the relatively low quality of life anywhere in the world outside of developed parts of Europe.