2009年4月29日星期三

Vienna named city with world's best quality of living

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SYDNEY (Reuters Life!) – Vienna has beaten Zurich to be crowned the place with the best quality of living in an annual survey in which European cities dominated the top 10.
Management consultancy Mercer said Vienna scored the highest for overall quality of living in the 215-city survey after improvements in Austria's political and social environment, knocking the Swiss city of Zurich into second position.
Third in the list came another Swiss city, Geneva, followed by Vancouver, Canada, and Auckland, New Zealand, in shared fourth place.
Baghdad, Iraq, came last despite slight improvements in its infrastructure and moves to encourage investment.
Three German cities made the top 10 -- Dusseldorf, Munich and Frankfurt -- with the list rounded out by Bern in Switzerland and Sydney, Australia.
The highest U.S. ranking in the 2009 Worldwide Quality of Living Survey was Honolulu which came 29th while Washington and New York remained in positions 44 and 49 respectively.
London came 38th in the list which is designed to help governments and companies formulate international packages for their employees.
"As a result of the current financial crisis, multinationals are looking to review their international assignment policies with a view to cutting costs," said Slagin Parakatil, senior researcher at Mercer, in a statement.
"Many companies plan to reduce the number of medium to long-term international assignments and localize their expatriate compensation packages where possible though the hardship allowance, based on quality of living criteria, will remain an essential component of the package."
Singapore was the top-scoring Asian city, coming in 26th which was up six places from a year ago due to its growing importance as a financial center and its wide range of international and private schools.
Beijing moved up three places to 113, boosted by improvements in public transport facilities from the Olympics last August.
Singapore also came first in a separate ranking based on city infrastructure, which examined standards of electricity, water, telephone, mail, public transport, traffic congestion and the range of international flights from local airports.
Singapore was followed in the infrastructure rankings by Munich, Copenhagen, and Tsukuba in Japan. Again, Baghdad came last.
The rankings, based on a point-scoring index in which New York is the base city with 100, are based on 39 quality-of-life determinants such as political stability, schooling, recreation, housing and natural environment.
In Central and South America, San Juan in Puerto Rico retained the highest ranking at 72 followed by Montevideo at 79.
"Political and security issues, and the incidence of natural disasters, continue to hinder the improvement of quality of living in the region. Shortages of consumer goods have also contributed to a decline in quality of living in some cities," said Parakatil.
(Writing by Belinda Goldsmith, Editing by Miral Fahmy)
【明報專訊】全球最優質生活城市評選出爐。奧地利的維也納躍過瑞士蘇黎世,成為全球最佳生活質素的城市。在排行榜前10位中,歐洲城市佔絕大多數,成為最佳居住地區。香港排名僅70,與去年排名一樣,但以基建而論則名列全球第8位。
這 項名為《2009年全球生活質素調查》的報告,對全球215個城市的生活質素作出多方面調查,當中涵蓋了政治穩定、學校、娛樂、房屋及自然環境等39項生 活因素。負責進行調查的顧問公司美世諮詢(Mercer)表示,由於奧地利政治和社會環境都有改善,維也納總體生活質素提升至全球首位,而去年奪冠的瑞士 城市蘇黎世只能屈居第2。至於港人最愛的移民城市溫哥華則排名第4,僅次於瑞士日內瓦。
香港排名兩岸最高
雖然香港仍為中國最高排名城市,但排名僅為第70,台北名列86,上海則名列98。由於奧運帶來公共交通設施的改善,北京的排名上升3位,名列113位。排名最高的亞洲城市為香港區內的競爭對手新加坡,名列第26,較去年躍升6位,理據是「其金融中心地位日益重要,且擁有眾多國際和私立學校」。

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是次調查涵蓋二百一十五個城市,目的是幫助政府和公司合理地安排員工派駐海外。美世信息諮詢業務亞太地區全球員工派遣諮詢業務負責人Cathy Loose指,因金融危機,很多公司計劃削減派駐海外的人手,減省成本,基礎設施對於派駐海外人員的生活質素具重要影響。 
調查排名顯示,奧地利維也納成為世界生活質素最佳的榜首城市,其次是瑞士的蘇黎世及日內瓦。調查以紐約作為基準城市,分數為一百分,香港的得分指數為九十四點四,得分較去年微升,但排名不變。
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補充:
The total index is based on the following categories: 
  • Consumer goods
  • Economic environment
  • Housing
  • Medical and health considerations
  • Natural environment
  • Political and social environment
  • Public services and transport
  • Recreation
  • Schools and education
  • Socio-cultural environment

2 則留言:



  1. LisaLee
    May 4, 2009 2:37 AM

    我也在WIEN~若論最優城市,夏天這裏是天堂,風景宜人,冬天有些悶。都還好拉,尤其比起巴黎,意大利,顯得秩序井然得多。但若論政策,EU,Dritter Staat在這裏就有很大區分,Obama的故事我想就沒機會在這裏髮生哦~ mfG
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    噢!地利 Oh!tria
    噢!地利 Oh!tria
    May 4, 2009 4:18 AM
    冬天死氣沈沈

    Fion

    Fion
    May 1, 2009 12:17 PM

    very good of you....enjoy the city la.
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    噢!地利 Oh!tria
    噢!地利 Oh!tria
    May 2, 2009 3:58 AM
    (Empty)

    Sharon

    Sharon
    Apr 30, 2009 8:36 PM

    你就好啦! 住係全世界最優質的城市!!! 我都想住係 奧地利呀,的人又比教有禮貌和教養,加上冬天可以日日去滑雪
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    噢!地利 Oh!tria
    噢!地利 Oh!tria
    May 1, 2009 4:28 AM
    要住滑雪區先可以日日滑雪啊 .

    __A_YAHOO_USER__

    __A_YAHOO_USER__
    Apr 30, 2009 7:31 AM

    我覺得係咪最好住,要睇個人對生活嘅要求,如果要香港人搬去頭十名嘅城市住,都未必住得開心。
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    噢!地利 Oh!tria
    噢!地利 Oh!tria
    Apr 30, 2009 2:53 PM
    啱 , 好似 我覺得呢度買 嘢唔 係太方便

    Evans

    Evans
    Apr 30, 2009 6:23 AM

    我都想搬去維也納住添呀!
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    噢!地利 Oh!tria
    噢!地利 Oh!tria
    Apr 30, 2009 2:54 PM
    過 黎啦 , 等 我哋開番個 Chinatown

    Bonekinho

    Bonekinho
    Apr 30, 2009 1:21 AM

    Hey Sid...do you happen to know anything about Lisbon's ranking in that list??? Well, maybe i shouldn't even know about it...lol...
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    噢!地利 Oh!tria
    噢!地利 Oh!tria
    Apr 30, 2009 3:03 AM
    I have tried to look for the full ranking in Mercer's website but, to my surprise, you need to pay for it. So forget it.

    Gael

    Gael
    Apr 30, 2009 12:35 AM

    哈哈,真係恭喜你喎住在全世界最佳城市,我也看到這單新聞,好彩我都0黎過Jack
    香港只能排第70,好似有點失禮羞家
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    噢!地利 Oh!tria
    噢!地利 Oh!tria
    Apr 30, 2009 3:06 AM
    我 估 housing 係香港失分最多 嘅 一項

    笨拙OL

    笨拙OL
    Apr 29, 2009 10:42 PM

    你就好啦, 可以住係全世界生活條件最優質的城市. 記得好好享受
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    噢!地利 Oh!tria
    噢!地利 Oh!tria
    Apr 29, 2009 10:43 PM
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    LAWPEG

    LAWPEG
    Apr 29, 2009 9:48 PM

    請問,可以在全世界生活質素最佳的城市居住,有什麼感想?
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    噢!地利 Oh!tria
    噢!地利 Oh!tria
    Apr 29, 2009 10:34 PM
    可以見到 人哋好 嘅 一面 . 但係我覺得香港都有 嘢好過 呢度

    Solarman

    Solarman
    Apr 29, 2009 6:55 AM


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    噢!地利 Oh!tria
    噢!地利 Oh!tria
    Apr 29, 2009 5:27 PM
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  2. Poohada
    Apr 29, 2009 6:11 AM

    新加坡同香港的問題,.... um, 我正研究緊大學制度, 好明顯係人地有policy, 有direction,,, 但我地仍然一pat泥... 呢d野唔係我講, 係文獻到黎的 政府的大學政制亦常指明要同新加坡比,,, 但得個講知, 話要做Asia's World City同 an education hub in the region... 但事實證明, 香港真係缺乏政治人材...
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    噢!地利 Oh!tria
    噢!地利 Oh!tria
    Apr 29, 2009 5:28 PM
    Asia’s World City 名不副實

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