Friday, 20 June 2008

Something that's been bugging me

I've only noticed this recently.. actually no, I've always known it but it's only started to bug me recently. Why do most people think that their country is the BEST country in the world and can do no wrong and every other country is crap? And if you dare say anything bad about their country (or city) they get very very defensive. I guess there's nothing wrong with being proud of where you live or grew up but still... I just don't understand..

Tuesday, 17 June 2008

Mercer HR survey 2008 - Quality of living cities



Considering my other post is the most popular on this blog I thought I'd post this up too.

Full article here

Top 10 cities (rest can be found on the site)



























































































Rank 2008

Rank 2007


City


Country


Index 2008


Index 2007


1



1


Zurich


Switzerland


108


108.1


2


3


Vienna


Austria


107.9



107.7


2


2



Geneva


Switzerland


107.9


108.0


4


3


Vancouver


Canada


107.6


107.7


5


5


Auckland



New Zealand


107.3


107.3



6


5


Dusseldorf


Germany


107.2


107.3


7


8


Munich


Germany



107


106.9


7



7


Frankfurt


Germany


107


107.1


9


9


Bern


Switzerland


106.5



106.5


10


9



Sydney


Australia


106.3


106.5





Apple stores

An Apple store will open in my hometown of Sydney in just 2 days and Apple plans to increase their presence in China by building their first store there (in Beijing, not Shanghai) though).