The Rankings Are in

The eighteenth annual Mercer quality of living list was just released.  Mercer is a division of the highly regarded HR benefits consulting firm of Marsh & McLennan.  The list is part of their consulting service by which companies figure out how much money you have to pay someone to get them to go work in country xxx.

The top ten cities on this year's list are:

1 Vienna, Austria

2 Zurich, Switzerland

3 Auckland, New Zealand

4 Munich, Germany

5 Vancouver, Canada

6 Dusseldorf, Germany

7 Frankfurt, Germany

8 Geneva, Switzerland

9 Copenhagen, Denmark

10 Sydney, Australia

The bottom ten are:

221 Conakry, Guinea
222 Kinshasa, Congo, Democratic Republic of
223 Brazzaville, Congo, Republic of
224 Damascus, Syria
225 N'Djamena, Chad
226 Khartoum, Sudan
227 Port-au-Prince, Haiti
228 Sana'a, Yemen
229 Bangui, Central African Republic
230 Baghdad, Iraq

Naturally, readers of this blog are curious about Cairo and their own neighborhoods.

Cairo comes in at number 171

Here are the rankings for U.S. Cities:

28 San Francisco
34 Boston
35 Honolulu
43 Chicago
44 New York City
46 Seattle
49 Los Angeles
51 Washington
56 Pittsburgh
57 Philadelphia
61 Minneapolis
63 Dallas
65 Houston
66 Miami
67 Atlanta
68 St. Louis
70 Detroit

You just might disagree.  After all, Detroit is just nine behind Minneapolis and 101 ahead of Cairo!  But, read the whole thing here and a summary article in the U.K. Daily Mail with pictures here.