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Tag: Quality of Life

  • Friday, June 25th 2021 - 06:15 UTC

    Denmark's capital the best city of the world for quality of life

    This is the fourth time Denmark's capital has won the honor since the survey began in 2007.

    Copenhagen has topped media outlet Monocle's list of the world's best cities for quality of life Zurich, Helsinki, Stockholm and Tokyo rounded out the top five as Monocle resumed its rankings after a one-year hiatus as the COVID-19 pandemic struck.

  • Friday, March 29th 2019 - 18:39 UTC

    Montevideo: The most expensive city and the best place to live in Latin America?

    Unlike the cities studied of the great neighbors, Brazil and Argentina, Montevideo (and Uruguay) stands out for the quality of its democracy and its relative economic stability

    The Uruguayan capital is the most expensive and the best to live in the region. At least that's what the studies of The Economist, which positioned Montevideo behind Mexico City in terms of cost, and the consultancy Mercer, which places the capital at the top of Latin American quality of life ranking, revealed in publications made this month. El País (Madrid) explains that Montevideo has a “crazy decadent charm”. However, why does this phenomenon occur?

  • Wednesday, March 13th 2019 - 20:09 UTC

    The best and the worst city to live in Latin America

    The Uruguayan capital is positioned above cities such as Buenos Aires or Santiago de Chile because of its relatively relaxed political and social environment (Photo: Nicolás Pereyra)

    Caracas, in the last place, and Montevideo ranks as the two opposite poles of the list of cities ordered by quality of life in Latin America in 2019, according to Mercer. The capital of Austria, Vienna, ranked for the tenth consecutive year as the best in the world.