Singapore has been ranked amongst over 200 cities worldwide for offering the very best infrastructure.
For the primary time, city infrastructure was assessed individually within the annual rating by consulting firm Mercer. Frankfurt and Munich got here second.
Urban infrastructure plays a crucial role in how international corporations determine where to expand their operations abroad and where to send foreign employees.
Easy access to transportation, reliable electricity and drinking water are key aspects considered when determining hardship advantages, considering differences between the employee’s home and the host’s home, Mercer said.
The company’s 2017 Quality of Living study of 231 cities helps firms and organizations set wages and advantages for difficult working conditions for international employees. It uses dozens of criteria, including political stability, health care, education, crime, recreation and transportation.
In the general quality of life survey results, Vienna in Austria topped the list for the eighth time in a row, while Baghdad in Iraq was once more named town with the worst quality of life.
Globally, Singapore ranked twenty fifth and was the highest-rated Asian city. Hong Kong ranked 71stsaint.
Major financial centres resembling London, Paris, Tokyo and New York didn’t feature high on the list, with the very best results coming mainly from large cities in Germany, Scandinavia, Canada, New Zealand and Australia.
The highest rating within the United States was San Francisco with a rating of 29.t 1st place; while London, the highest-ranked city within the UK, got here in fortieth.t place.
Even with the political and economic turmoil, Western European cities still enjoy among the highest quality of life on the earth. Mercer said they continue to be attractive destinations for expanding businesses and sending expatriates on missions.
With a population of 1.8 million, Vienna enjoys town’s cafés, museums, theatres and operas.
As Reuters notes, rents and public transport costs in town, whose architecture is marked by its past because the centre of the Habsburg empire, are low in comparison with other Western capitals.
Reuters reported that after six years of bloody war in Syria, Damascus was seventh from the underside of the list, while Bangui within the Central African Republic, Yemen’s capital Sanaa, Port-au-Prince in Haiti, Khartoum in Sudan and N’Djamena in Chad were at the underside, ahead of Baghdad.
Source: Ann Williams / The Jakarta Post / The Straits Times / Asia News Network
