Perth and Adelaide Make World’s Top 10 Healthiest Cities List
Just last night I was thinking about how clean and pretty Perth is. Driving through the city and noting the lack of smog and lots of visibility of sky and stars, I also realised we have more commissioned street art on our walls than we do graffiti. Take that, New York!
Then, just this morning I’m reading that Perth has been named one of the world’s ten ‘healthiest’ cities. Adelaide made it in there, too, but these were the only two Australian references in the top 10, otherwise occupied by European cities.
Oddly enough, Amsterdam is number one, which comes as a surprise since all we ever hear about the Netherlands’ capital is that (a) drugs run rampant, (b) sex is everywhere, and (c) that it’s sinking.
The cities were judged according to 10 criteria which included daylight hours, life expectancy, life-to-work balance, lack of fast food outlets, lack of obesity, quality of air, quality of water, and number of holidays. And it seems Perth, which made it in at number 10, and Adelaide which made number 8, ticked most of those boxes.
Oddly enough, Amsterdam is number one, which comes as a surprise since all we ever hear about the Netherlands’ capital is that (a) drugs run rampant there, (b) sex is everywhere too, and (c) it’s been sinking into the soil since I first studied Holland in primary school.
Some of the cities also in the Top 10 were Oslo, Abu Dhabi, Cairo, Dubai, Berlin, and yet another Dutch city, Rotterdam.
Of the 89 cities graded, among the bottom 10 were Kuala Lumpur, Manchester, Mexico City, and Shanghai. Antonino Tati
TOP 10 HEALTHIEST CITIES
- Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Oslo, Norway
- Munich, Germany
- Rotterdam, Netherlands
- Berlin, Germany
- Tallinn, Estonia
- Vienna, Austria
- Adelaide, Australia
- Helsinki, Finland
- Perth, Australia
BOTTOM 10 CITIES IN TERMS OF HEALTH
- Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- Manchester, England
- Cairo, Egypt
- Izmir, Turkey
- Bogota, Colombia
- Mexico City, Mexico
- Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Shanghai, China
- Istanbul, Turkey
- Casablanca, Morocco
Source: Spotahome Healthiest Cities Index.
Image, top of story: an artist’s impression of illuminated Perth.
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