{"id":1778,"date":"2007-04-15T07:40:40","date_gmt":"2007-04-15T11:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=1778"},"modified":"2007-04-15T13:23:13","modified_gmt":"2007-04-15T17:23:13","slug":"top-100-most-livable-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2007\/04\/15\/top-100-most-livable-cities\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 100 Most Livable Cities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"364\" src=\"http:\/\/images.businessweek.com\/ss\/07\/04\/0406_liveable_cities\/image\/1_zurich.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Zurich, Switzerland, which was rated number one<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What foreign postings are most coveted by expatriate executives? To find out, Mercer Human Resource Consulting, which provides advice to multinational companies on international assignments, has come up with a global ranking of the world&#8217;s most livable cities based on 39 key quality-of-life issues. They include political stability, currency-exchange regulations, political and media censorship, school quality, housing, the environment and public safety. Mercer collected the data between September and November of 2006 and considered 215 cities around the globe. Switzerland&#8217;s main commercial and cultural center, Zurich, topped the list this year, followed by Geneva, and Vancouver and Vienna, which tied for third.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Toronto comes in on the list at number 15. To see the whole list, <a href=\"http:\/\/bwnt.businessweek.com\/interactive_reports\/livable_cities_worldwide\/\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zurich, Switzerland, which was rated number one What foreign postings are most coveted by expatriate executives? 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They include political stability,<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2007\/04\/15\/top-100-most-livable-cities\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Top 100 Most Livable Cities&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4011,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[5374,5376,5375,21,1488,19,54,304,2609],"class_list":["post-1778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spacing","tag-geneva","tag-media-censorship","tag-mercer-human-resource-consulting","tag-other-cities","tag-switzerland","tag-toronto","tag-vancouver","tag-vienna","tag-zurich"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Top 100 Most Livable Cities - Spacing Toronto<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2007\/04\/15\/top-100-most-livable-cities\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Top 100 Most Livable Cities - Spacing Toronto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Zurich, Switzerland, which was rated number one What foreign postings are most coveted by expatriate executives? 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