Chandigarh, Bangalore and Pune emerge as the most desirable Indian cities to live

New Delhi, 29 Nov, 2011: Chandigarh, Bangalore and Pune have emerged as the three most desirable cities (ranked in descending order) to live, reveals a survey by 99acres.com, India’s biggest real estate portal and YouGov, an international internet-based market research firm.
An in-depth study of the city ratings revealed some interesting insights on what citizens feel. Among the metros, only Bangalore features among the top three desirable cities across most metrics.
In this survey on ‘Most and Least desirable cities to live in India’, Chandigarh with a mean rating of 4.43 (on a scale of 1 to 5) emerged on top of the list across most parameters that were taken into consideration while arriving at the overall desirability index. It was a preferred city for education, health, living conditions, safety, human rights, and recreation and to some extent for financial aspects, career opportunities and Salary. Each of these elements plays a crucial role either directly or indirectly in shaping the overall quality of life.
Barring career opportunities and salaries where Bangalore, Mumbai and Delhi are top rated cities, Chandigarh has scored top ranks in all the other parameters. On the contrary, Varanasi, Agra, Patna, Kanpur and Meerut performed poorly across most of the parameters. Meerut, the lowest rated city scored only 2.8.
Delhi along with Patna, Kanpur and Meerut emerged as one of the most unsafe city in the country. Chandigarh, Vadodara and Shimla emerged as the safest cities in the country.
Delhi appears in the top five rankings in Education, Health and Career prospects and Mumbai features in the top five list for the quality of Education, Recreation and Career prospects. Interestingly, Shimla has been rated among the top three cities in human and civil rights and safety parameters. Meerut, Varanasi, Agra and Patna have been consistently rated with a low score across all parameters. *(Please refer to the attached report for other details).
When we asked respondents about their opinion on which city in India has the most attractive citizens then 24% of them said Mumbai, 15% said Bangalore and 14% said Delhi. On the contrary, 11% respondents have said that Patna has the least attractive citizens.