Three Wellington local authorities have been rated highly for quality of life by a survey of New Zealand's metropolitan cities.
Sunday, March 20th 2005, 5:13AM
by The Landlord
Tauranga emerged with some of the highest overall category ratings, though Rodney and Dunedin residents felt their quality of life was the best overall.
The survey was carried out last year by Gravitas Research and Strategy Ltd and involved the Social Development Ministry and 12 participating cities and districts of Porirua, Wellington, Lower Hutt, Rodney, Auckland, North Shore, Waitakere, Manukau, Hamilton, Tauranga, Christchurch and Dunedin.
Respondents were asked if their quality of life was extremely good, good, neutral, poor or extremely poor.
Rodney and Dunedin came out on top with a score of 91 as places offering a good or extremely good quality of life. Porirua, North Shore and Tauranga were second on 90. Wellington and Lower Hutt were on 88.
Other survey categories covered health, democracy, free-time, wellbeing, public transport, environment, community, crime and safety, corporate ethics and work issues.
