Auckland in Top 10 Places to Live

Auckland has placed fifth in an international survey (Mercer Human Resource Consulting in the UK) on places to live.

Criteria included personal safety, the environment and access to health, education, transport and other public services.

I guess transport has a low weighting!

Zurich is the top-rated city and Baghdad is the worst. Second-best is Geneva, with Vancouver third.

Wellington, performed well going from 14th to 12th place. Elsewhere in the Asia Pacific cities surveyed Sydney was ranked in ninth place.