According to the 2019 Residential Ranking by real estate company JLL, the most popular place to live in the Netherlands is Amsterdam! JLL publishes this ranking once every three years, last time Amsterdam headed the list too!
Popular places to live
JLL creates its ranking using a computer model which computes data from 84 large municipalities (with more than 50.000 residents) to come up with the most ideal places to live. The model looks at 37 different indicators, including demographic growth, house prices, accessibility and safety. The ranking maps the places that are interesting for investors. Amsterdam has yet again come out on top, mainly due to the economic growth in the city, its accessibility and the number of facilities.
Whilst Amsterdam may top the ranking, what’s interesting is that the top 10 is not just made up of the municipalities where the largest cities in the country are located. Coming in second place is Utrecht, which gets points for its central location as well as its highly educated population and increasing prices. The quality of residences in Utrecht also bumps up its score.
The other municipalities joining Amsterdam and Utrecht in the top five most popular places to live are Delft, Amersfoort and Zwolle, respectively 3rd, 4th and 5th. According to JLL, the medium-sized cities such as Delft, Amersfoort, Almere and Zwolle are rising in the ranking because of their positive economic developments and forecasts, good accessibility and demography.
Bottom of the ranking
At the bottom of the ranking, you can find Midden- Groningen (84), Terneuzen (83), Hoogeveen (82), Súdwest-Fryslân (81) and Emmen (80). This is, for a great deal, due to the work opportunities available. Many of the residents in these municipalities go off to study in the cities and often, they don’t return to the region.
Top 10 most popular places to live
Here are the top 10 places to live in the Netherlands, according to the 2019 Residential Ranking.
- Amsterdam
- Utrecht
- Delft
- Amersfoort
- Zwolle
- Almere
- Haarlemmermeer
- Arnhem
- Groningen
- The Hague
The 53 best cities in the world to visit
Every year, Time Out Magazine polls thousands of city dwellers from all around the world with the aim of creating a “global snapshot of city living” and helping travellers find the hotspots and hidden gems in cities across the globe. While last year’s ranking focussed on how cities adapted to and overcame the pandemic, Time Out has shifted its focus back to its original goal: exploring and supporting international travel.
This year, the magazine has put together a list of the 53 best cities for visiting in 2022, looking at a number of different aspects of day-to-day life, including the quality of the nightlife, the range of museums and other cultural attractions, and the abundance of good food and drink. In addition to all this, the cities highlighted “aren’t boring or overly expensive or overrated” and “score well for practical stuff like walkability, good public transport and safety, as well as sustainability.”
Amsterdam: A chilled, buzzy, and progressive city
The 2021 ranking saw Amsterdam achieve a very respectable second place behind San Francisco. This year’s ranking has been shuffled around - a lot - and while Amsterdam managed to cling on to a place in the top 10, the Dutch capital did fall into fifth place.
In spite of this, however, the city was still praised by the Time Out team, who highlighted Amsterdam’s “chilled out” vibe and “walkable (or cyclable!)” streets. “The city combines a buzzy social scene and vibrant nightlife with tolerance and diversity,” the magazine writes, adding that those polled felt Amsterdam was “the easiest place in the world to express who you are.”
Top 10 global cities in 2022
According to the 2022 edition of the ranking, the top 10 cities in the world to visit in 2022 are:
- Edinburgh
- Chicago
- Medellín
- Glasgow
- Amsterdam
- Prague
- Marrakech
- Berlin
- Montreal
- Copenhagen
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