Where would you rather work?

Mercer have announced the results of their latest expat quality of life city survey and The Economist have kindly charted some of it for us. 

Mercer’s study is based on 39 measures grouped in the following categories:

• Political and social environment   (political stability, crime, law enforcement, etc)
  
• Economic environment (currency   exchange regulations, banking services, etc)
  
• Socio-cultural environment   (censorship, limitations on personal freedom, etc)
  
• Health and sanitation (medical   supplies and services, infectious diseases, sewage, waste disposal, air   pollution, etc)
• Schools and education (standard and   availability of international schools, etc)
• Public services and transportation   (electricity, water, public transport, traffic congestion,   etc)
• Recreation (restaurants, theatres,   cinemas, sports and leisure, etc)
• Consumer goods (availability of   food/daily consumption items, cars, etc)
  
• Housing (housing, household   appliances, furniture, maintenance services, etc)

The complete rankings can be viewed here. Interesting that almost half of the 30 top-scoring cities surveyed are in Western Europe and yet London ranks at 39.