What about: cost of living, number of startups, number of large employers, housing costs, quality of life?
Edit: Changed "life quality" to "quality of life".
What about: cost of living, number of startups, number of large employers, housing costs, quality of life?
Edit: Changed "life quality" to "quality of life".
I don't think these stats consider that for countries like USA where you have to pay your own assurance, save for your retirement... (which is not deduced from your salary)
Presumably this includes "housing costs". What does "life quality" even mean?
Here's one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercer_Quality_of_Living_Survey, but for cities rather than countries.
http://www.scotsman.com/news/scotland/top-stories/edinburgh-...
[I must declare my blatant, but understandable, bias in favour of Edinburgh]
In any event, I agree with the people who have doubts that this particular survey does not have enough data to really do a good job.