Italian cities fail to impress expats in the results of the "Expat City Ranking 2020".
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Valencia, Alicante, Lisbon, Panama City and Singapore. These are the top five best cities in the world for foreigners to live in. This is reflected in the "Expat City Ranking 2020" by InterNations, where the main Italian cities failed to impress expats. 

66 cities were analysed to complete the 2020 "Expat City Ranking", which takes into account five main areas: quality of urban life, leisure and climate, transport, security and politics, as well as health and environment. The ranking is dominated by destinations on the Iberian Peninsula, with the podium featuring Valencia, Alicante and Lisbon. Expats living in Valencia (1st place in the list of 66 cities) are particularly satisfied with health care and climate. In the city of Alicante (2nd), more than four out of five expatriates feel at home. No respondents have anything negative to say about their personal security in Lisbon (3rd).

However, in order to find the Italians cities and what expats think of life there, we have to go to the other end of the table. The last three positions in the ranking are occupied by Salmiya (66th), Rome (65th) and Seoul (64th).

As far as Rome in particular is concerned, Italy's capital comes in penultimate place, ranking among the last five cities in two out of four categories: it is in 63rd place as far as the quality of urban life is concerned and comes in last place for urban working life according to expats in Rome. 

On the urban quality of life index, Rome's great results for climate and weather conditions cannot compensate for concerns about political stability, personal safety, and the availability and quality of health care in the city. On top of this, foreigners in Rome also highlighted the inadequacy of public transport. On the other hand, the results in the "Getting Settled" category (44th), as well as "Finance and housing" (48th) are not quite as disastrous, although foreigners in Rome are less likely to agree that their disposable household income is sufficient or more than sufficient to cover expenses.

The Italian cities featured in the ranking also include Milan which does little better than Rome, finishing in 63rd. In both the capital and the Lombard capital, foreigners are rather dissatisfied with security and politics, the availability of health care and their finances. Both cities also achieve some of their worst results in the urban working life index.