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In our City Index, our readers rated their cities for six key characteristics...



• Dynamism - how vibrant and exciting life there feels.

• Inspiration - and whether the city feels like a pleasant or difficult place to live.

• Food & drink - if the city is somewhere you can eat well (and not too expensively!).

• Community - whether local neighbourhoods were rated highly.

• Sociability - and whether the city felt welcoming or isolating.

• Affordability - whether people could generally get by OK.

Scores for each category were ultimately combined to give each city an overall City Index score – here's how they did!