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World’s Top 100 Most Livable Cities

What foreign postings are most coveted by expatriate executives? To find out, Mercer Human Resource Consulting, which provides advice to multinational companies on international assignments, has come up with a global ranking of the world’s most livable cities based on 39 key quality-of-life issues. They include political stability, currency-exchange regulations, political and media censorship, school quality, housing, the environment and public safety.

So Singapore still remains the best place to live in South-East Asia - just after Paris and before Tokyo. Unsurprisingly, Kuala Lumpur came in at a pathetic 75th place but the real shocker is that Johor Bahru was revealed to be a much better place to live in than Shanghai.

Anyway, I checked out the cities I am usually in at any point of time and it turned out like this:

34) Singapore
70) Hong Kong (must be the f87king pollution)
75) Kuala Lumpur
101) Johor Bahru
103) Shanghai
109) Bangkok (kudos to the current military junta)
131) Guangzhou

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o,Guangzhou drop behind.

though i am in Guangzhou, i don’t like it very much actually.
i will go to Foshan several months later.

13 AMSTERDAM ????????????????????????? WTF!!!
impossible……Holland sucks!!! hehe
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But maryjane is legal in Holland!!!

which countries have the most expats? USA and Japan, right? So, the survey is skewed.

Anyway, being an expat is great in Singapore or KL or anywhere mostly but it sucks being a local as expats’ have better allowances and live in better apts than locals in general.
The survey is not which cities are the best place to live in if you live like a local. Maybe we should have a survey on that.

A famous quote:
“Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.”

think you read the results wrongly, Shanghai is 100 while JB is 101…. think you might be thinking of last year’s rankings…

And Canada is…….. # 1 country to live and work in…. Just ask me, I have lived in Canada all my life! Yes, I very much love to travel to Singapore and I miss the people very much but Canada is the best!

what about davao city??? for me there’s no place like davao hehehe just a compliment ok..