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Prague Post: Brno beats Prague in quality of life

Travel and statistics site puts Brno in Europe’s top 20

People tend to think of Prague and the Czech Republic as synonyms, but there are other cities.

The travel and statistics website Numbeo tracks eight parameters for 143 cities, and comes up with a quality of life index.

Brno, and not Prague, was surprisingly the highest ranking city in the Czech Republic for quality of life, as noticed by Czech news server iDnes.cz

The parameters include purchasing power, safety, health care, consumer prices, property-to-income ratio, traffic commute time, pollution and climate.

Worldwide, Brno came in at 46, while it was 18th in Europe and second in Eastern Europe, beaten by Gdańsk, Poland.

Prague came in at number 58 worldwide, 24th for Europe and fifth for Eastern Europe. Two cities in Romania were between Prague and Brno in third and fourth place for the Eastern European region.

Brno scored high is safety, health care and climate. It was moderate in purchasing power, property-to-income ratio and pollution. It scored low in traffic commute time and very low in consumer prices.

Brno, the second largest city in the Czech Republic and the capitol of the South Moravia region, has recently been developing as a high-tech center with technical universities and EU-supported programs attracting young people. The city and its surroundings are home to many tech startup companies as well as branches of tech multinationals.

The city has some 810,000 in the greater urban area but just 377,440 in the statutory city, as of 2015.

The city does have some tourist attractions, including modern design Tugendhat Villa, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

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Travel and statistics site puts Brno in Europe’s top 20

People tend to think of Prague and the Czech Republic as synonyms, but there are other cities.

The travel and statistics website Numbeo tracks eight parameters for 143 cities, and comes up with a quality of life index.

Brno, and not Prague, was surprisingly the highest ranking city in the Czech Republic for quality of life, as noticed by Czech news server iDnes.cz

The parameters include purchasing power, safety, health care, consumer prices, property-to-income ratio, traffic commute time, pollution and climate.

Worldwide, Brno came in at 46, while it was 18th in Europe and second in Eastern Europe, beaten by Gdańsk, Poland.

Prague came in at number 58 worldwide, 24th for Europe and fifth for Eastern Europe. Two cities in Romania were between Prague and Brno in third and fourth place for the Eastern European region.

Brno scored high is safety, health care and climate. It was moderate in purchasing power, property-to-income ratio and pollution. It scored low in traffic commute time and very low in consumer prices.

Brno, the second largest city in the Czech Republic and the capitol of the South Moravia region, has recently been developing as a high-tech center with technical universities and EU-supported programs attracting young people. The city and its surroundings are home to many tech startup companies as well as branches of tech multinationals.

The city has some 810,000 in the greater urban area but just 377,440 in the statutory city, as of 2015.

The city does have some tourist attractions, including modern design Tugendhat Villa, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Read more.