THE BEST CITIES IN WHICH TO LIVE

Global consulting firm Mercer has released its annual quality-of-living rankings. All except two of the Top 20 are European cities. The first American city to show up on the list is San Francisco at #34. Here are their Best and Worst Places to Live.
Best:
1. Vienna, Austria
2. Zurich, Switzerland
3. Vancouver, Canada
4. Munich, Germany
5. Aukland, New Zealand
6. Duesseldorf, Germany
7. Frankfurt, Germany
8. Copenhagen, Denmark
9. Geneva, Switzerland
10. Basel, Switzerland
11. Sydney, Australia
12. Amsterdam, The Netherlands
13. Berlin, Germany
14. Bern, Switzerland
15. Wellington, New Zealand
16. Toronto, Canada
17. Melbourne, Australia
18. Luxembourg, Belgium
19. Ottawa, Canada
20. Hamburg, Germany
* There it is, folks. Get packin’.
* Well, SOMEBODY at Mercer Global Consulting likes to ski.
* There are only three cities on this list that get more than a week of sunshine a year.
* Is Switzerland handing out free chocolate or something?
* Hey, Vienna, Zurich and Munich, remember – if it weren’t for America in World War II, you’d all be speaking German!

Worst:
225. Damascus, Syria
226. N’Djamena, Chad
227. Khartoum, Sudan
228. Port au Prince, Haiti
229. Sana’a, Yemen
230. Bangui, Central African Republic
231: Baghdad, Iraq