{"id":97491,"date":"2026-11-04T11:48:01","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T03:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=97491"},"modified":"2026-11-04T11:48:01","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T03:48:01","slug":"singapore-ranks-3rd-in-the-world-for-quality-of-life-beats-most-major-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=97491","title":{"rendered":"**Singapore Ranks 3rd In The World For Quality Of Life, Beats Most Major Cities*&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n**Singapore Ranks 3rd In The World For Quality Of Life, Beats Most Major Cities**<\/p>\n<p>Singapore has been ranked the world&#8217;s third-best city for quality of life in the 2026 Global Cities Index by Oxford Economics.<\/p>\n<p>Scoring 91.6 points, Singapore came behind Canberra, Australia (100), and Bergen, Norway (94.3).<\/p>\n<p>The report praised Singapore for its high incomes, low crime rates and excellent healthcare system, which contributes to its high life expectancy.<\/p>\n<p>However, one major weakness remains its expensive housing, partly due to limited land availability.<\/p>\n<p>Singapore was also the second-highest-ranked Asian city in the overall Global Cities Index, which assessed 1,000 cities across five categories.<\/p>\n<p>Full story in comments.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/883205245_2375070173030027_8298835626201430841_n.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp_automatic_fb_img\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/883205245_2375070173030027_8298835626201430841_n.png\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/100064694979509\/posts\/1565163605650124\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source<\/a>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>**Singapore Ranks 3rd In The World For Quality Of Life, Beats Most Major Cities** Singapore has been ranked the world&#8217;s third-best city for quality of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":97492,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-news-sg-global","wpcat-2-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=97491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/97492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}