Posted by: Nigel Wright Sunday, 6 May 2012 8:50 AM[UAE] - UK

"Best City for Quality of Life" is so subjective that any list is purely fun and not for serious consumption. It does however stimulate enjoyable debate. As one born in London who has lived there for over 50 years, but also spent the past 30 years travelling the world extensively for business and pleasure I am amazed by its rating. Sure, it has history, culture, rule of law and so on but it's infrastructure is creaking, travelling is a nightmare and the economy is crippled. Compared to many other international cities it is dirty and crime levels are unnacceptably high. There is a general sense of depression (in both the clinical and economic senses) and the Government is directionless. Furthermore, prime residential real estate prices have inflated way beyond reality and a bubble has developed. Do I love it though? Definitely, but despite itself rather than because of any definable great qualities.

Posted by: Abdul Monday, 9 April 2012 4:38 PM[UAE] - Qatar

you have to also consider political stability/rule of law, human rights and security. I think when you do that you find many of the cities will score lower (which would probably answer why the criteria is not listed) due to those even though on many other quality aspects they are better than the traditional winners (London/NYC/Hong Kong). think of it this way; where would you rather be if th country was in a financial crisis. if you lost your job etc... where would you rather be if there were demonstrations?

Posted by: Abdulaziz Thursday, 5 April 2012 12:55 PM[UAE] - UAE

Something is seriously wrong with this list folks. London? NYC? What?s going on... We would really like to see the criteria on which this list is built on.

Posted by: Michali Michal Friday, 30 March 2012 8:30 PM[UAE] - USA

New York city???? number 3???? As a New Yorker, I can assure you that unless you love spending astronomical amounts of money for tiny apartments, taking urine stenched subway system on a daily basis. Astronomical price of food and gas (petron/fuel), Cab drivers who seems to enjoy driving recklessly. A massively overcrowded city, with more people (with big dreams), than space to accommodate them.... I think its safe to say that anyone who's ever lived in NYC will tell you that New York should be at the bottom of the list. The only thing this city has going for it is the nightlife and restaurant scene. You can find awesome, awesome authentic food from any country at any time. But besides that...nyc is an overated, 24 hr factory.

Posted by: Sebastian Otero Sunday, 1 April 2012 2:15 PM[UAE] - UAE

Agree with you, NY is fantastic and full of adrenaline. But I do not ever consider that city for quality of life. I will like to know who made this statistics and which things were consider for such. Half of the cities mentioned are far from being considered for quality of life. Do traffic and contamination is considered ? as Michali said, does somebody considered the cost to get such "quality of Life" and the weather how was considered or weighted ? As any serious statistics they should mentioned the source and from which perspective they are looking it. No doubt that all of the 20 mentioned cities are great worldwide cities.

Posted by: Salil Chhabra Thursday, 29 March 2012 8:43 PM[UAE] - UAE

Dubai is really a lovable city, if you will start living here, you will never even think to leave it...