Mercer Just Crowned Dubai As the Most Livable City in the Region
Counseling firm, Mercer, surveyed 231 cities in total and the aim is to help companies determine compensation for staff deployed across the globe. The criteria include health care, education, crime, transportation and the political outlook. As anyone predicts, for the sixth year in a row, Dubai has once again been ranked as the city offering the best quality of life in the Middle East and Africa.
Even though it topped the region, Dubai ranked 74 on the global scale. It was closely followed by Abu Dhabi, which claimed 77th place – up two spots on last year. The region’s lowest-ranked cities for quality of living include Damascus (225), Sana’a (229) and Baghdad was in the last place at 231.
Vienna topped the global ranking for the ninth year running, providing high security, well-structured public transportation and a variety of cultural and recreation facilities. The Austrian capital was followed by Switzerland’s Zurich in second place with Auckland in New Zealand and Germany’s Munich in joint-third place.
In a similar manner, other cities in the GCC with a top 100 rank are Muscat at 70 and Kuwait coming in at 99. According to the National, Baghdad has been at the bottom of the ranking for some time, hit by years of violence following the American-led invasion in 2003.
