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Only 40 cities. The reality is that the best work-life balance cities are not the biggest cities in the world. You get the best in the middle range. I have been

by Loic 5y ago

Only 40 cities. The reality is that the best work-life balance cities are not the biggest cities in the world. You get the best in the middle range. I have been working in Copenhagen, yes, it is a nice city, but you get way better quality of life in a 100,000 to 400,000 city nearly anywhere else in Europe. Even Aahrus has a better quality of life. The problem of these ranking is that they want to be global, so they take very big cities known by most of the people at the world level, but all the quality of life is in the middle. You will not see Münster (DE), Boulder (CO, US), Lausanne (CH), Nancy (FR), etc. etc. They are basically the the best from the worse.

papito 5y ago
I did not feel like I was spending much less money in Copenhagen than I did in NYC. Can't say I was excited to pay $8 for a beer again.
novaRom 5y ago
Agree, this is a very incomplete list. Better places at least in Europe are often mid- to small towns. They might be however boring for certain people. But in general, they share most of characteristics with their nearest big city from this presented table.
wolfpack_mick 5y ago
>but you get way better quality of life in a 100,000 to 400,000 city nearly anywhere else in Europe. Even Aahrus has a better quality of life. I think you're going a bit far there. Access to a larger international community, international schooling, wider offering of grocery products (e.g. asian supermarkets) and restaurants, diverse music, arts and cultural offering - smaller distance to airport, those are all reasons I'm happier in Helsinki then some random 100,000 person city. It's weird because in this survey all of those would fall into the 'Happiness, Culture & Leisure', even though it includes a lot more stuff than 'outdoor spaces' for example.
mmmmmbop 5y ago
Just FYI, Zurich is a much smaller city than people think. It has a population of only 400k.

by Loic 5y ago

papito 5y ago

I did not feel like I was spending much less money in Copenhagen than I did in NYC. Can't say I was excited to pay $8 for a beer again.

novaRom 5y ago

Agree, this is a very incomplete list. Better places at least in Europe are often mid- to small towns. They might be however boring for certain people. But in general, they share most of characteristics with their nearest big city from this presented table.

wolfpack_mick 5y ago

>but you get way better quality of life in a 100,000 to 400,000 city nearly anywhere else in Europe. Even Aahrus has a better quality of life. I think you're going a bit far there. Access to a larger international community, international schooling, wider offering of grocery products (e.g. asian supermarkets) and restaurants, diverse music, arts and cultural offering - smaller distance to airport, those are all reasons I'm happier in Helsinki then some random 100,000 person city. It's weird because in this survey all of those would fall into the 'Happiness, Culture & Leisure', even though it includes a lot more stuff than 'outdoor spaces' for example.

mmmmmbop 5y ago

Just FYI, Zurich is a much smaller city than people think. It has a population of only 400k.