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Nice place to visit, but you wouldn't want to live there.
2020-01-07
[The Street] Paris, Rome, New York... they are some of the most popular travel destinations in the world‐but many expats who live in these world-class cities are unhappy.

What makes it so hard to live in a city that so many people want to visit? The cost of living, difficulty making friends, and challenges finding housing are some of the reasons cited by respondents to a survey conducted by InterNations, a global community and information site for people who live and work abroad.

According to the survey of 20,000 expats living in 82 cities around the world, the best cities, which include Taipei, Kuala Lumpur and Ho Chi Minh City, offer a high quality of life, good transportation, available healthcare, low cost of living and friendly locals.

But in places like Milan and Rome, poor political stability concerns expats, and in U.S. cities like New York and San Francisco, they cite affordability and housing as main issues.

To identify the best and worst cities for expats, InterNations asked expats to rate more than 25 different aspects of urban life abroad in the categories of Quality of Urban Living, Getting Settled, Urban Work Life, and Finance & Housing. The survey also includes a Local Cost of Living Index, which does not factor into the overall ranking to avoid over-representing financial aspects.
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#13  Yeah, the critique was from the kid living in his mom's basement in Austin.
Posted by: Skidmark   2020-01-07 17:19  

#12  BS in some respects.Most US expats living abroad and working for a US based company get uplift compensation plus living beenies. Maybe the Argentine living in Manchester has to make it on its own. Though.

I loved every billet, BA, London, Antwerp, Reykavlick, and Jeddah/Al-Khobar/Riyahd. You either adapt or you die from boredom.
Posted by: Tarzan Elmeretch9587   2020-01-07 16:57  

#11  'Twas midnight, but one Organismus
Wuz stirring on Orthodox Christmas...

Stuck I am. Whatcha got, smarty?
Posted by: Harry Lover of the Gepids1344   2020-01-07 15:36  

#10  Pyramid? PYRAMID?!

Compromise, 'Erb the Coy, is the Hypotenuse of the Conjoined Triangles of Success!

Posted by: Lex   2020-01-07 15:33  

#9  Heh, heh, heh. The ad hominem again. You've got nothing. Make a real argument and we'll talk. Until then, you're just little kids playing in the playground.
Posted by: Herb McCoy   2020-01-07 14:33  

#8  Rome? Really? You'd have to be congenitally dissatisfied to be unhappy in Rome, methinks
Posted by: Lex   2020-01-07 12:13  

#7  ...and in U.S. cities like New York and San Francisco, they cite affordability and housing as main issues...

Not to mention the smell.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2020-01-07 11:45  

#6  Better than Rome, New York. Suburb town, run down village.
Posted by: Woodrow   2020-01-07 09:18  

#5  ^ Right in the eye at 600 yards.
Posted by: Dron66046   2020-01-07 09:00  

#4  complainers who love being miserable, and relish always having something to bitch about.

So you fit right in, eh?
Posted by: Skidmark   2020-01-07 07:34  

#3  To identify the best and worst cities for expats

The problem starts with the word 'city'. This writes itself.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2020-01-07 07:12  

#2  *shrug* Sounds sensible. Dreadfully romantic as ideas, but who would want to have to deal every day with Mayor De Blasio’s cleverness in NYC, the results of the homeless on the streets of San Francisco, or the Moslem colonists on the streets of Paris?

Posted by: trailing wife   2020-01-07 06:36  

#1  I've met a bunch of expats. Many of them are professional sneerers, looking down on whatever host culture they find themselves in. Others are complainers who love being miserable, and relish always having something to bitch about.
Posted by: Herb McCoy   2020-01-07 05:20  

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