According to a Reuters story out of London on DominicanosHOY, the Dominican Republic has a poor quality of life for ex-pats. As someone who plans to retire there in the near future, I disagree, but here it is:
Dominicanos HOY: RD: entre peores calidad de vida para expatriados
Rough English translation:RD: among worst quality of life for expatriates.
London .- Dominican Republic is among the countries with the worst rates in terms of quality of life for expatriates who live here, this for the last years of political turbulence and economic, as well as natural disasters.
Vienna is the city of the world with the best quality of life for expatriate workers, according to a new ranking of the consultancy Mercer, which now stands at twenty top thirteen European cities and in the past, the Iraqi capital.
After the Austrian capital, two Swiss cities Zurich and Geneva, the Canadian Vancouver and Auckland in New Zealand, which are tied in fourth place.
Immediately after appearing on the list three German cities - Dusseldorf, Munich and Frankfurt, followed by the Swiss capital, Berne, Sydney (Australia), Wellington and Copenhagen, also in Australia.
Brussels is ranked fourteenth, Berlin in the sixteenth, twentieth place in Stockholm, Paris in the thirty-second, thirty-fifth in Tokyo, London, in the 38th, Milan, at 41, 42 in Barcelona, in Lisbon 44, and Madrid, at 48, immediately followed by New York.
As regards the quality of infrastructure, Singapore tops the list, followed by Munich (Germany), Copenhagen, two Japanese cities, Tsukuba and Yokohama, D?sseldorf (Germany), Vancouver (Canada), Frankfurt (Germany), Hong Kong and London, both tied in eighth place, while Madrid is only shown at 43.
In the Americas, San Juan de Puerto Rico is ranked 72 in terms of quality of life, followed by Montevideo at 79, while Santiago de Chile have the best infrastructure across Central and South America and the capital of Haiti in the bottom of the table at the 212 - both in quality of life for its infrastructure.
The report's authors point out that many South American countries have in recent years political and economic turbulence, which have adversely affected the quality of life of expatriates who reside there.
This is in addition to natural disasters such as hurricanes that have severely beaten Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Cuba and the United States.
The report acknowledges, however, that some Central American countries have experienced positive changes with an increase in their living standards and cites - Costa Rica, Guatemala or El Salvador.
In the Middle East and Africa, Dubai (post 77) in the United Arab Emirates and Port Louis in Mauritius (82), are the cities where expatriates can enjoy better quality of life, while Cape Town has since fallen from 80 - 87.
According Slagin Parakatil, head of the team which developed the index, due to the economic crisis, many multinationals are trying to reduce jobs in the outside and take into account criteria such as quality of life comes to compensate their employees .
Very important too, says Prakatil are infrastructure, which "have a dramatic impact on quality of life experienced by expatriates."
In preparing its report, the consultant used criteria such as political stability, crime rates, banking and currency regulations, health status, educational standard, the quality of public services and recreation, housing and the environment.
Dominicanos HOY: RD: entre peores calidad de vida para expatriados
Rough English translation:RD: among worst quality of life for expatriates.
London .- Dominican Republic is among the countries with the worst rates in terms of quality of life for expatriates who live here, this for the last years of political turbulence and economic, as well as natural disasters.
Vienna is the city of the world with the best quality of life for expatriate workers, according to a new ranking of the consultancy Mercer, which now stands at twenty top thirteen European cities and in the past, the Iraqi capital.
After the Austrian capital, two Swiss cities Zurich and Geneva, the Canadian Vancouver and Auckland in New Zealand, which are tied in fourth place.
Immediately after appearing on the list three German cities - Dusseldorf, Munich and Frankfurt, followed by the Swiss capital, Berne, Sydney (Australia), Wellington and Copenhagen, also in Australia.
Brussels is ranked fourteenth, Berlin in the sixteenth, twentieth place in Stockholm, Paris in the thirty-second, thirty-fifth in Tokyo, London, in the 38th, Milan, at 41, 42 in Barcelona, in Lisbon 44, and Madrid, at 48, immediately followed by New York.
As regards the quality of infrastructure, Singapore tops the list, followed by Munich (Germany), Copenhagen, two Japanese cities, Tsukuba and Yokohama, D?sseldorf (Germany), Vancouver (Canada), Frankfurt (Germany), Hong Kong and London, both tied in eighth place, while Madrid is only shown at 43.
In the Americas, San Juan de Puerto Rico is ranked 72 in terms of quality of life, followed by Montevideo at 79, while Santiago de Chile have the best infrastructure across Central and South America and the capital of Haiti in the bottom of the table at the 212 - both in quality of life for its infrastructure.
The report's authors point out that many South American countries have in recent years political and economic turbulence, which have adversely affected the quality of life of expatriates who reside there.
This is in addition to natural disasters such as hurricanes that have severely beaten Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Cuba and the United States.
The report acknowledges, however, that some Central American countries have experienced positive changes with an increase in their living standards and cites - Costa Rica, Guatemala or El Salvador.
In the Middle East and Africa, Dubai (post 77) in the United Arab Emirates and Port Louis in Mauritius (82), are the cities where expatriates can enjoy better quality of life, while Cape Town has since fallen from 80 - 87.
According Slagin Parakatil, head of the team which developed the index, due to the economic crisis, many multinationals are trying to reduce jobs in the outside and take into account criteria such as quality of life comes to compensate their employees .
Very important too, says Prakatil are infrastructure, which "have a dramatic impact on quality of life experienced by expatriates."
In preparing its report, the consultant used criteria such as political stability, crime rates, banking and currency regulations, health status, educational standard, the quality of public services and recreation, housing and the environment.