Vienna remains the best city for staff who live abroad, says Mercer survey

Vienna is once again the premier destination to live for company employees assigned abroad, while Dublin beats London, Paris and Rome, according to the 2017 Mercer quality of living survey.

The Austrian capital was ranked first out of 231 cities, taking the top spot for the eighth time in a row. Dublin, which was the only city in the Republic to be ranked, was 34. Belfast was ranked at 66.

The rest of the top 10 list is mostly filled by European cities, with Zurich in second place, with Munich, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Geneva, Copenhagen, and Basel, a newcomer to the list, in 10th place.