2014 Quality of Living worldwide city rankings – Mercer survey Vienna, the home of Mozart and Freud, has held on to its title as the city with the highest quality of life, according to the 2014 rankings of the best places to live and work by management consultancy Mercer. Vienna was followed by Zurich, Switzerland, and Auckland, New Zealand. In fourth place was Germany's Munich while Vancouver, Canada, was in fifth -- the highest-ranked city in North America.