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Austria, Switzerland Top World's Best Places to Live

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vienna Europe – the same corner of Europe, actually – claims the first three spots in Mercer Consulting's annual Quality of Living Survey. Vienna, Austria and Zurich and Geneva in Switzerland lead the list, followed by Vancouver, Canada and Auckland, New Zealand in a tie for fourth.

Little has changed for the top half of the top 10. Last year, Zurich nabbed the top spot, and Vienna and Geneva shared the #2 spot. Vancouver is unchanged year-over-year, and Auckland's #5 finish last year is roughly the same as its tie for fourth in 2009.

Not only are the top places to live ostensibly enjoyable, you're more likely to be there for a while. Life expectancies in these cities start at 79 years. It's better than living a nice long life in a dump, I guess.

The United States doesn't appear until the bottom of the top 30, with Honolulu and San Francisco. From Asia, only Singapore picks up a spot in the world's 30 best places to live. South America and Africa are not represented at all. It's strange, I half-expected to see Mogadishu on this list.

Of the 215 places listed, Baghdad has the distinction of finishing last. Sometimes, common sense prevails.

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Dream Getaways That Can Happen in A Weekend

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Although 2 week vacations are awesome the trouble is that it's often so hard to get away that they rarely (if ever) happen. But why delay that trip to Paris or Buenos Aires til who-knows-when? A long weekend, which is much easier to do for most people, can be more than enough to have a fabulous time in an exotic far-off location if you do things right. Vienna, Milan, and even Sydney are realistic possibilities. Why take the chance that a trip to your dream location might never happen when you can be there later this month? 1, 2, or 3 nights is better than none at all, right? I'd say so.

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The Levante Parliment

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The Levante Parliment recently opened its doors in Vienna. The hotel, which is part of the design hotels group, maintained the original 1908 facade but updated the interior with clean lines and dramatic contemporary art. The building is both a gallery and a hotel and features black and white photographs by Curt Themessl and glass art by Ioan Nemtoi. The Nemtoi restaurant features Nemtoi's glass bar and four massive glass sculptures. Without the sculptures, the hotel would look like any modern hotel but the simple design of the hotel provides a nice contrasting backdrop for Nemtoi's colorful and sinuous forms. The hotel also has a sauna and infrared cabin and a courtyard garden. Rates start at 175 euros per night.

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