Expat City Ranking 2021 Ranks 57 Cities Worldwide

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InterNations, the world’s largest expat community with around 4 million members, publishes its Expat City Ranking 2021. It is based on the annual Expat Insider survey, which is one of the most extensive surveys about living and working abroad. This year, 12,420 expats participated in the survey.

In 2021, 57 cities around the globe are analyzed in the Expat City Ranking, offering in-depth information about five areas of expat life: Quality of Urban Living, Getting Settled, Urban Work Life, Finance & Housing, and Local Cost of Living. Taken together, the first four areas make up the Expat City Ranking, which reveals the best and worst cities for expats to live in.

 

What Expats Think About Life in 3 Northern European Cities
Three northern European cities are featured in the Expat City Ranking 2021. Tallinn ranks 22nd, followed by Copenhagen (30th) and Stockholm (43rd). While all of them perform well in the Quality of Urban Living and Urban Work Life Indices, expats struggle with settling in. When it comes to finance and housing, as well as the local cost of living, Tallinn beats Copenhagen and Stockholm by far.

These Cities Are the Best and Worst in the World for Expats

Out of 57 cities in the Expat City Ranking 2021, Kuala Lumpur (1st), Málaga, Dubai, Sydney, Singapore, Ho Chi Minh City, Prague, Mexico City, Basel, and Madrid (10th) are the top 10 cities for expats to live in 2021. On the other hand, expats consider Rome (57th), Milan, Johannesburg, Istanbul, Tokyo, Cairo, Paris, Maastricht, Moscow, and New York (48th) the world’s worst cities to live in.