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Vienna - the capital of comfort
Vienna - the most comfortable city to live. To such conclusion experts of the American consulting firm Mercer. The Austrian capital ahead of the rest of indicators such as infrastructure, security, and quality of health care. Second place went to Zurich, Switzerland, and the third - Auckland in New Zealand. Cities were evaluated in terms of infrastructure development, social and health institutions, as well as the possibility to find in them well-paid jobs. In addition, the figures take into account the political and economic stability. Russian cities, according to US experts, are unsuitable for life. Moscow and St. Petersburg is located in the Mercer ranking 163 th and 165 th place respectively. In the ranking of cities, most secure life, the northern capital of Russia has bypassed the nominal, taking place 173. Moscow has become in the list of "safe" cities only 199 minutes. Alas, we did not so much as we would like ahead of the outsider, what was recognized by Baghdad, located on the 221-th line rating. At the same time, Mercer warned that the city, occupying the top lines should not take its position for granted because they are not protected from the decline in living standards, given the scope the global economy problems. So, Oslo dropped to 24th place because of the massacres committed by Anders Breivik in July. Without this, the capital of Norway could count on getting into the top 15, we noted in Mercer.