Steak Tatar..
these places are either too cold at times or have big hairy spiders...ill pass
My 2 cents...
Canada is cold and Australia has the deadly spiders but their medical infrastructure down under is the best in the world at treating venomous bites by snakes and spiders if that is any consolation. Given the choice I would choose New Zealand over Australia..
Auckland, New Zealand is attractive along with Wellington which is also in New Zealand. Not sure how affordable NZ is though.
I assume this list is taking cost of living into account seeing how they overlook Switzerland and Germany two countries with several top infrastructure and quality of life cities such as Zürich, Bern and Geneva in Switzerland. Germany is home to modern cities like and Munich, Frankfort, Düsseldorf, Berlin, Cologne and Hamburg for example. Throw in other excellent European cities like Copenhagen, Stockholm, Brussels, and Amsterdam you have to consider Europe full of attractive but unfortunately expensive places to live.
Geneva Austria is also highly ranked. In the US I think Honolulu is ranked the highest when it comes to quality of life and infrastructure but pretty far down the world wide list. San Francisco might be a better choice simply because of geography.
You personally might be in as decent a spot as far as bang for your buck goes right now...
A well known member of the sportsbetting industry lives in New Zealand, unless he moved in the last five years or so. I am pretty sure you know who I mean. Not important as far as this topic goes.
Vancouver and Toronto are expensive from what I hear, I have never been to either city. Helsinki is probably the coldest city on Barman's list, Calgary is a mystery as far as I am concerned..
wil.