Prague did not win. It’s best to live somewhere else
Středočeské Říčany is the fifth city with the best life in the Czech Republic. Nový Bydžov improved the most, jumping 58 places to 85th place out of 206 evaluated municipalities with extended jurisdiction. The worst situation is still Orlová in the Moravian-Silesian Region. This follows from the fifth year of the Quality of Life Index, published by the company on its website Municipalities in datait’s main consulting partner is Deloitte.
The index includes 29 parameters that express the level of health, environment and availability of health care, conditions for work, housing and education, availability of services, transport connections and also relationships between people, for example with regard to the existence of local associations. Analysts use data from the Internet and the public sector. The index is created based on the principles of UN and Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) methodologies validated by Deloitte, the company said.
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After Říčany, the second is Prague and the third is again the Central Bohemian municipality of Brandýs nad Labem – Stará Boleslav. Hustopeče and fifth Černošice are new in the elite five. The top five regional cities are the same as last year – Prague, Brno, České Budějovice, Hradec Králové and Pardubice.
Nový Bydžov in the Hradec Králové region, Stod in the Pilsen region and Odry in the Moravian-Silesian region recorded the highest increase in the value of the index (by one point). Over the five-year duration of the project, Pohořelice from the South Moravian region improved the most, by 97 positions to the current 20th place. “The quality of life is rising in municipalities where the job offer is growing, new citizens are arriving and the infrastructure and availability of services is improving,” said Pavel Šiška, senior partner in Deloitte’s consulting department.
The ranking is once again closed by Orlová in the Moravian-Silesian region, the penultimate Karviná has the same rating of 0 points. Český Krumlov in the South Bohemian Region, which fell from 34th place in 2018 to this year’s 126th place, fell most significantly in the ranking compared to the 2018 edition.
“Using the example of Český Krumlov, we can use the data to detect a massive tourism industry, which, in the absence of another economic base, represents a complex phenomenon for maintaining the quality of life and its development for permanent residents. In this case, we can talk about the ‘Venice effect’. It is a question of whether cities can use their strengths in tourism for comprehensive development or whether it is directed to only one track, which may be a dead end. Other tourist-active locations, for example in the mountains, suffer from a similar phenomenon,” said Jan Havránek, CEO of Obce v datach.