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Originally Posted by Shanis
Well they didn't judge any city by poems or something like that. They compared the job-markets, free-time-activity-offers, health system, etc. Nothing that can be seen from diffrent views. Well it could be they never stepped a food in it or city they prefer are ranked higher but I doubt that this is as useless as you think it is. Also this depends on the district you live in, some are just shit others are only for millionairs  |
I think that you pointed out the problem with this way of judging cities with that final sentence.
Let us say that there is a wonderful city, great variety of stuff, etc - but there are more "millionaires" living there than another city (probably because of said variety of stuff). As the cost of living for a millionaire is going to be high, looking at the average cost of living for everyone in the city will give you a skewed perspective - You will think that living there costs more as there are people paying quite a lot... But in reality the majority of people could be living with a much lower cost of living.
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And I was going to go into more detail until I noticed something I had not noticed before.
This is a ranking for
expatriates. And short term ones at that.
It doesn`t have anything to do with the quality of life for native or long term residents. It`s all about how much a city impresses someone with money who lives there for a short period of time, and how much they can be catered to.
Well,
that puts it all into perspective. The places I would want to live cater more to long term residents (with more opportunities open to them) than someone just here on business for a few months wanting to be "entertained".