Polish city distinguished in the ranking. This is where people are most satisfied with their lives
The SchengenVisaInfo.com website has prepared a report on which cities in Europe are the best for people to live in. One Polish town was included on the list of 10 such places.
According to the EU 2023 report on the quality of life in European cities, approximately 90 percent of European Union residents expressed satisfaction with life in their town. However, in which places do people live best and are they most satisfied with the quality of life? They also appreciated the Polish city!
Europeans satisfied with the quality of life
Although life satisfaction levels in all EU cities have fallen compared to 2019, they still remain quite high. The EU 2023 report prepared by SchengenVisaInfo.com emphasizes that nine out of ten people are satisfied with life in European cities. The results confirm what was already observed in 2019, namely a significant improvement in the perceived quality of urban living services in eastern Member States.
31 percent of residents said their quality of life had improved, 40 percent reported no change, and approximately 29 percent reported a decline.
The report also highlights that smaller cities are perceived as better places to live in many respects – such as safety, accessibility of public spaces, health care, housing affordability and local public administration. In addition, smaller cities are considered better places to live for older people, families with small children and migrants. About 89 percent inhabitants of cities with fewer than 250,000 inhabitants people are satisfied with living here.
In these cities, people are most satisfied with their lives
Which cities in the European Union are the best for people to live in? The top ten included, among others: a town in Poland.
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Zurich, Switzerland (97%)
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Copenhagen, Denmark (96%)
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Groningen, Netherlands (96%)
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Gdańsk, Poland (95%)
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Leipzig, Germany (95%)
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Stockholm, Sweden (95%)
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Geneva, Switzerland (95%)
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Rostock, Germany (94%)
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Cluj-Napoca, Romania (94%)
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Braga, Portugal (94%)
The ten cities considered the best places to live also for immigrants include Groningen, Braga and Gdańsk.
Other cities considered the best places to live for immigrants include Cardiff (UK), Lisbon (Portugal), Barcelona (Spain), Tyneside (UK), Hamburg (Germany), Helsinki (Finland) and Glasgow (UK).
In turn, the cities that received the lowest ratings for residents’ satisfaction with life in their city were Palermo (Italy), Athens (Greece), Istanbul (Turkey), Tirana (Albania), Naples (Italy), Belgrade (Serbia), Rome (Italy ), Skopje (North Macedonia), Miskolc (Hungary) and Podgorica (Montenegro).
The report covers 83 cities across the European Union, European Free Trade Association (EFTA) countries, the UK, the Balkan countries and Turkey. Contains data from 71,153 surveys. In each city, a sample of at least 839 residents were interviewed between January and April 2023.
