Among European city dwellers, residents in Prague are most confident about finding a job, while people in Zurich feel safest. Romans distrust their administration more than anyone on the Continent, while no one thinks it’s harder to find an affordable apartment than Parisians. Everyone except residents of Valetta, Malta, thinks that their cultural scene is great, while most Europeans still feel that foreigners bring more benefits than problems. [...]
Europe’s happiest cities are overwhelmingly on the northern side of the Continent, but results suggest it’s not wealth alone that is a driver for happiness. While the top three may be among the usual suspects—Oslo, Zurich, and Denmark’s third city of Aalborg—the next two in the ranking are less obvious: Belfast and Vilnius. [...]
Size may also be a factor. The populations of these cities are between 206,000 (Alborg) and 648,000 (Oslo). The happiness scores suggest the charms of a medium-sized city: big enough to be lively but small enough to be easily navigable and capable of fostering tight community links. [...]
The list of cities where people thought good housing was least easy to come by, meanwhile, reads like a litany of success: Paris, Munich, Geneva, and Stockholm topped the ranking. This is essentially a survey or perception rather than reality, however. Residents in low-rent Berlin felt that good housing was harder to come by than Londoners did, even though housing costs in London are far higher even when you take wage differences into account.
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