The quality of life ranking: Pordenone is the city where you can live best. Last place for Foggia
The city where you live best in Italy is in the province of Pordenone, in the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region. Foggia in Apulia, it is the worst.
This is what the 22nd edition of the annual ranking prepared by ItaliaOggi and La Sapienza University de Rome.
There is a change at the top. Last year, first place was occupied by Trento. The Trentino province is now in second place (last year it was exactly the opposite).
This year, the ranking also takes into account the ongoing pandemic and, in fact, the provinces most affected by the first wave are the ones that lost the most positions in the overall ranking.
Thus, Bergamo fell from 26th place last year to 40th this year.
The methodology used in the research – in 107 Italian provinces – seems to have been able to immediately capture at least the direct consequences of the pandemic.
South has poor or insufficient quality of life
The data also shows that around 42,5% of the Italian population (around 44% last year) lives in areas characterized by a poor or insufficient quality of life.
The group of provinces characterized by an insufficient level of quality of life is made up this year exclusively of provinces in southern Italy and on the islands.
This means that the quality of life of more than 60,1% of the population residing in the South is below acceptable levels.
As for the top positions, after the provinces Pordenone and Trento, there are two new entries: Vicenza (it was 14th) and Padua (11th).
But the highest jump is in Ascoli Piceno (Marche): who went from 37th position to 5th.
Foggia, in Apulia, appears in last place, that is, in 107th place.
Big cities disappoint
To find Milan you have to go down to position number 45 (it was 29th); Rome it is in 50th place (but up from 76th), Turin in 64th (from 49th) Naples continues in the last positions (103rd, it was 105th in 2019).
Business and work
Bolzano and Bologna open the “Business and work” ranking, maintaining the first positions already obtained in the past, as well as Trento, which in third place once again confirms the rankings already achieved in recent years.
In the last position of the classification, as in 2019, is Crotone.
Environment
Trento takes first place in the Environment category, followed by Milan, Pordenone and Sondrio (Lombardy).
As last year, Catania (Sicily) closes the ranking.
Security
Ascoli Piceno is the safest province in Italy, confirming the excellent placements already achieved in previous editions.
Nuoro (Sardinia), Treviso (Veneto) and Oristano (Sardinia) appear next.
Rimini, in Emilia-Romagna, ends the ranking in last position for the third consecutive year.
Education
Trento is also in first place in education and training, followed by three other provinces in the Northeast: Bologna, Trieste and Udine.
Last in the ranking is Crotone.
Health
In the health system, confirming the result already achieved, Isernia (Molise) occupies first place, followed by Terni (Umbria) Cagliari (Sardinia) and Catanzaro (Calabria).
Leisure and tourism
Siena remained in first place, in the Health and Leisure theme, confirming the positions achieved in the last six editions, as well as Rimini, Aosta and Verbano Cusio-Ossola, while Grosseto is in fifth place.
Crotone closes the ranking, as in previous years.
Better standard of living
Milan confirms the position already obtained last year in income and wealth and opens the ranking on standard of living. Following the lead group is Bologna, which in turn maintained second place from 2019, then comes Aosta and Parma.
Closing the ranking, like last year, is the province of Crotone.
