Survey
Names Madrid Finest European City for Expats
The capital of Spain
is friendly and affordable and it comes with great weather. Madrid, the capital
of Spain, has come first out of the cities of Europe in the latest poll looking
at cities loved by expats around the world.
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its no wonder that Madrid has been named
the finest European city
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The survey in question was the InterNations Expat Insider
2016 survey and it’s thought to be the largest and most extensive study looking
at how expats live; so the results are likely to treated as gospel by those
looking to move somewhere new.
The expats who took part were asked how they would rate
several different elements of living overseas including their career prospects,
their work-life balance, the weather, their quality of life, and how the local
population behave.
Second place came as a surprise because it was taken by
Houston in the USA. Madrid came in third with Dusseldorf in Germany taking
fourth and Singapore coming in fifth.
Madrid scored well as expats felt that locals in the city
would make every effort to make expats feel at home. Throw in the weather and
the cost of living and it’s not hard to see why Madrid came in third.
Barcelona came in 11th overall and received
praise for the leisure, social activities, low cost of living and solid prospects on offer.
The rest of the list was taken up by the usual suspects;
Vienna, Berlin, Munich, Toronto, Geneva and Sydney. Perhaps the most
interesting result is that there were no British cities in the top 20. Britain
was let down by the high cost of living and the poor weather that pushed
British cities such as Birmingham, Manchester and London off of the list.
London came in 27th place overall out of 35
cities. London ranked low because of the quality of life in the city and the
perceived lack of safety.
