The 10 Best Countries to Live In

International Living Magazine has done their 30th annual survey of the best countries to live in, and Australia not surprisingly has been ranked equal 2nd with Switzerland and Germany. France has come up tops again for the 5th year in a row, also having the best health care system. UK has dropped to 25th.


Criteria survey based on is cost of living, leisure and culture, economy, environment, freedom, health, infrastructure, safety and climate.

I also want to quickly mention that in recent months, there was another survey released about Expats and they ranked Australia as one of the top places to be located at, and further more expats choose to permanently live in Australia following their stay. Whereas Dubai was ranked as one of the worst. And since its property sector bubble has blown... emm that's another blog altogether. Anyway, back to the survey.

I am also glad that Switzerland is there, because it really is my favourite country in Europe. One word that describes it, beautiful. I have also in recent days watched a documentary on Canada, and how ironic that this survey has just come out ranking it within top 10 and, well.. I do actually agree with its result. To come to think of it, it's been more than 20 years since my visit to Canada. I'm sure we'll get a lot more TV exposure to what a beautiful country it really is when the Winter Olympics commences in Feb anyway.

And Singapore's final score is 61, with climate scored at 39 points heheee... AGREE!! stickyyyy!!

Alright, here's the top 10 countries:
timesbusiness.typepad.com/money_weblog/2010/01/the-20-best-places-to-live-in-the-world.html

Full List of 194 countries ranking:
www1.internationalliving.com/qofl2010

International Living Article
www.internationalliving.com/Internal-Components/Further-Resources/quality-of-life-2010

borrowed photo from Olivier Ffrench