Getting spiffy on the Liffey
So, according to an international survey by Mercer Human Resource Consulting, life is better in Dublin than Paris, London or New York. In a global ranking of quality of living , the dirty old town came in at a very respectable 25th, even beating out hippy heavens such as San Francisco and sun-soaked orgiastic utopias like Barcelona.
It all sounds great until you see the top ten cities in the list and realise that they include Zurich, Geneva, Dusseldorf and Bern, places so tedious that it must be hard to know when anyone dies. And where watching the paint drying on your cuckoo clock is considered an adrenaline sport.
In fact, Nurnberg beat us to #23 on there and when you're beaten by a city more famous for Nazi trials than beaches, high fashion or beautiful architecture, these surveys might pale just a shade.
Incidentally, where's Cork on the list?
I must admit that at the first sight the list appeared ridiculous to me. If you take into consideration that it is a survey, you will notice that it might be based on the citizens' attitude towards their residence.
By the way: Nuremberg has a beautiful historic city, is located in the nature and has therefore a lot of good places to go for the weekend. It won't matter too much that some Dubliners think of the Nazis in the first place. ;)
Posted by: Nina | May 01, 2009 at 11:00