Living in the city doesn't have to come with a load of trade-offs -- at least not in the urban spots profiled here.
Culture? These 10 cities have it, along with access to health care and education, solid infrastructure and much more.
CNN takes a look, in no particular order, at 10 cities that score high on annual surveys such as the Economist Intelligence Unit's global livability report, Mercer's quality of living index and Monocle's most livable cities list.
These surveys look at a wide array of factors ranging from crime rates, health care and transport to encouraging entrepreneurship and the ease of finding supermarkets open late at night.