Why is Buenos Aires the second city in the region where it is good to live?

Montevideo and Buenos Aires are the best Latin American cities to live in, according to a new edition of the Index of cities with the best quality of life produced each year by the prestigious English magazine The Economist.

The index lists more than 140 cities around the world and scores them with a score of zero to 100 according to their performance in various categories: stability, education, health care, infrastructure, culture and environment.

This year, the world top five highlights Auckland (New Zealand), Osaka (Japan), Adelaide (Australia), Wellington (New Zealand) and Tokyo (Japan) as the best cities to live.

Regarding the performance of the region, publication highlights that the quality of life in Latin America continues to be compromised by the pandemic. In fact, the average performance of the 15 Latin American cities surveyed by the index fell from 68.5 before the pandemic to 60.8 in this edition.

Montevideo ranked as the most important city in the region with a score of 76.5, followed by Buenos Aires (75.8) and Santiago de Chile (71.7). Only these three cities exceed 70 points in the region’s overall ranking, and the publication points out that The Argentine capital has regained the global position it occupied before the pandemic after a slight drop in September 2020.

In this regard, the Secretary General of International Relations, Fernando Straface, said: “Looking to the future, this ranking confirms the attractiveness of the city of Buenos Aires as a city to visit, study and work. Ville, which has regained its international position after the successive waves of the pandemic “.

The category where Buenos Aires performs the best is education, with a score of 91.7 out of 100, the same score obtained by cities like London, New York, Washington, Los Angeles, Boston or Hong Kong.

The City also excels in Infrastructure (85.7) and Culture and environment (71.3). In this sense, Straface explained that the strategy of international projection of the City in the post-pandemic aims to recover the flow of more than 90,000 international students who come to Buenos Aires each year, attracted by the variety and the quality of its academic offer, as well as by its cultural life and high standards of quality of life.

In the same vein, he highlighted the launch of the Digital Nomades BA program, an initiative with which the port government intends to attract 22,000 teleworkers by 2023.

“Without a doubt, education, culture and quality of life are attributes that the world recognizes and values ​​in Buenos Aires, and they will be the engine of the city’s recovery,” he said.

The index notes that the overall overall average score has decreased by seven points compared to the average score before COVID-19. In addition, the publication notes that the classification changes largely reflect the degree of protection of cities by strong border closures, the management of the health crisis and the pace of vaccination campaigns.