I spent a month in Vienna, Austria.
The price you pay for that sort of quality of life is that it is also perhaps the most boring place on earth next to Zurich or the other Swiss cities listed in that particular top 10.
The price you pay for that sort of quality of life is that it is also perhaps the most boring place on earth next to Zurich or the other Swiss cities listed in that particular top 10.
I have not been to any of these places since 2002, so perhaps things have improved. Take it with a grain of salt, I was also just a tourist. In contrast, it's very difficult to describe any aspect of California as "boring" unless you are an angsty teenager stuck in the burbs...