Forbes.com’s 20 Best Places to Live – Meltwater offices get it right!
by Kimling L. in Meltwater Culture Aug.21.2009. 12:05 am   [PST]

In April 2009, Forbes.com published their World’s 20 Best Places to Live list.

It turns out that there are Meltwater offices located in 11 out of the 20 cities listed by Forbes, including Zurich, Auckland and Toronto.

Check out the map for details. The pin-pointed cities indicate the Forbes top 20 cites, while the Meltwater logo m-logo2 indicates a matching Meltwater office location.
View Meltwater Offices & Forbes’ 20 Best Places to Live in a larger map

  1. Vienna, Austriam-logo2
  2. Zurich, Switzerlandm-logo2
  3. Geneva, Switzerland
  4. Vancouver, Canada
  5. Auckland, New Zealandm-logo2
  6. Dusseldorf, Germany
  7. Munich, Germanym-logo2
  8. Frankfurt, Germany
  9. Bern, Switzerland
  10. Sydney, Australiam-logo2
  11. Copenhagen, Denmarkm-logo2
  12. Wellington, New Zealand
  13. Amsterdam, The Netherlandsm-logo2
  14. Brussels, Belgium
  15. Toronto, Canadam-logo2
  16. Ottawa, Canada
  17. Berlin, Germanym-logo2
  18. Melbourne, Australiam-logo2
  19. Luxembourg, Luxembourg
  20. Stockholm, Swedenm-logo2

Is your city not on the map? Defend your city and post comments!

  • Daniel Thalhammer

    Vienna is #1…that’s all I can say…. :)

  • Heidi Islann

    Cant see Oslo anywhere on the list!!! Is this list made by a german or what? ha ha. i will defend Oslo, Tokyo and Singapore!!!!

  • Nora

    I am not sure if I ever mentioned this before :-) , but I think Berlin just is the best city in the world. YES!!!!

  • http://www.meltwater.com Victoria Haynes

    Where is London? Did they forgot to ask the 7.5 million people who live there…I demand a recount!

  • Kimling

    San Francisco should be on the list because it is AMAZING.
    Great food, healthy lifestyles (biking, hiking, swimming, running). Tech companies all around, Lots of creative people and laid back vibe. I love it here!

  • Erik Emri

    I agree with Kimling’s comment. San Francisco may be expensive, but the awesome location, near vicinity of great trails, roads, exercise alternatives, cool companies (not just tech), and ski options is very impressive. Not to mention cool people and good food. They could use a few more cabs though.

  • Daniel Thalhammer

    I love San Francisco for many of the reasons listed above (and then some….like amazing coastlines and WINE COUNTRY), but it definitely loses out on things like cost of living and crime rate. Don’t even get me started on the lack of cleanliness and high rate of homelessness.

    All the great things in SF are slightly dampened when you have to step over a passed-out homeless person on the street to get to them.

    Taking the bus to work every morning is always a reminder of why SF is not at the top of this list, and won’t be until conditions are improved.

    There are probably few places in the US (and the world for that matter) where the extremely wealthy and the extremely poor live in such cramped quarters, and where dot-com millionaires live just one block away from the classy hourly hotels where “ladies of the night” with addiction problems do their business.

    I live in SF because I love the positives, and hope that the negatives will improve over time.

  • http://yunfengli@twitter.com yfl

    Having an analytical mindset, I can’t help but wonder what the point in this article is.

    Is it that Meltwater is good at locating its offices to attract people or is it that Meltwater made those cities a good place to live in? Or perhaps it is nothing more than a curious notation for general amusement?

    It seems that most people are just looking for some enjoyment in which case I would like to add Barcelona to the list of cities missing from the top 20.

  • Rosaura Slava

    Buenos Aires Should be there! :)