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"Vienna scores high on a number of those areas," Rodriguez said. Vancouver is tops in Canada for quality of life with its moderate climate contributing to its high ranking, says an annual survey. The West Coast city has also retained its fifth-place spot globally in the 2017 Mercer Quality of Living survey. Overall, Vienna retains the top spot as the city with the world's best quality of living, also keeping its first place ranking, said the survey released on Tuesday. Baghdad was last out 221 cities. The survey said Canada offers some of the best quality of living in the world with Ottawa ranking 14th, Toronto 15th, Montreal 23rd and Calgary 32nd. "One of the things that Vancouver has going for it that the other cities do not have is climate," said Mercer Canada's Eleana Rodriguez. "All four of the other Canadian cities that are on the ranking don't have the kind of climate that Vancouver has, so obviously that's a factor to consider." Canada has five cities ranked in the top 35 cities in the world, she said, adding that Calgary advanced one ranking and Montreal dropped by one ranking. "We score quite high," said Rodriguez, market business leader for Mercer Canada in Toronto. Consulting firm Mercer looked at 39 factors such as a city's political and social environment and its economic and socio-cultural environment, areas in which Canada scored quite well. | 
