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Australia is home to the world’s best city to work from home

It’s the only Australian city that has suffered through four hard lockdowns during the COVID-19 pandemic.

MelbourneBut, despite the hurdles over the past 18 months, it has still managed to take the prize as the world’s best city to work from home.

That’s right. It’s Melbourne.

And it’s hardly too surprising given Melbourne is also home to the ‘coolest’ street in the world.

A new survey by on-demand housing platform Nestpick, which polled residents living in 75 cities across the world that were previously listed as ‘most liveable’ listed our ‘garden city’ as the best place in the globe to be working from home.

The work-from-anywhere index survey was based on three broad categories — costs & infrastructure, legislation & freedoms and liveability — which combined make them a good place to both relocate and work remotely from.

Melbourne ranked exceptionally well for remote working infrastructure, safety, freedom & rights, gender equality, minority equality, healthcare, culture & leisure and pollution with scores in each in the 90s out of 100 points.

However, Australia’s low vaccination rates dragged the city's numbers down.

Since the COVID-19 pandemic continues to impact the liveability of many metropolises, the survey took note of the percentage of the populations that are fully vaccinated in each location, as well as those that had low infection rates.

But Melbourne isn’t the only Australian city to make the list of the top places to work from home across the globe.

Sydney also took the third spot, behind Dubai which came in second.

Sydney’s leisure & culture, higher rental prices, and higher cost of living saw it beaten to the top spot by its southern neighbour.

Is it any coincidence then that both Melbourne and Sydney are home to two of the world’s coolest neighbourhoods?

It seems there are a few metrics that judge at least two of our major cities as some of the greatest on earth.

What other cities made the top of the list?

In fourth place was Tallinn in Estonia, while London rounded out the top five work-from-home cities.

Elsewhere in the top 10, Tokyo came in 6th place followed by Singapore, Glasgow, Montreal, and then Berlin.

Interestingly, the poll also found Rio de Janeiro had the most affordable rental accommodation, Marrakesh was the best for internet speed and capacity while Istanbul was the best for remote worker infrastructure.

Here’s the full top 20:

1 Melbourne Australia
2 Dubai UAE
3 Sydney Australia
4 Tallinn Estonia
5 London UK
6 Tokyo Japan
7 Singapore Singapore
8 Glasgow UK
9 Montreal Canada
10 Berlin Germany
11 Prague Czechia
12 Toronto Canada
13 Chicago USA
14 Hong Kong Hong Kong
15 Lisbon Portugal
16 Cape Town South Africa
17 Edinburgh UK
18 Vienna Austria
19 Los Angeles USA
20 New York USA

COVID-19 pandemic sees surge in work-from-home needs

Even before the pandemic, advances in technology and digital connectivity prompted many companies to adopt a work-from-anywhere policy, allowing employees to choose a living/working arrangement that suits them best, Nestpick explained.

Covid Home Office“The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated this trend rapidly over the last 12 months, however, very few countries have enacted legislation designed to attract foreign-employed workers,” Nestpick said.

“Instead, they only offer visas to those who take jobs on location, therefore missing the opportunity to bring high-wage earners to their cities without the need to generate new jobs.”

“The last year has really proved to many companies that remote-working is not only a possibility but actually something that can be beneficial to everyone involved.

The technology has been available for a while now, but it’s taken seeing it in practice for the idea to really take hold,” Omer Kucukdere, Founder and CEO at Nestpick, said.

Work from home sees a rise in the ‘20-minute neighbourhood’

The accelerated trend for people to work from home also supports what we’re seeing in the property market — the rise of the 20-minute neighbourhood.

Last year offices were shut, lockdowns were in place and now people are likely to continue working flexible rosters and working at home more than ever.

This means gone are the days where our ‘home’ was simply the place we rest our heads and enjoy some downtime between work and our social lives — the coronavirus social distancing has put an end to life as we once knew it.

If social distancing and the Covid-19 environment has taught us anything, it has taught us the importance of the neighbourhood we live in.

If you can leave your home and be within walking distance of, or a short trip to, a great shopping strip, your favourite coffee shop, amenities, the beach, a great park, the recently implemented coronavirus restrictions might seem a little more palatable than if you had none of that on your doorstep.

And as a result, these are the type of neighbourhoods that investors and wannabe homeowners are flocking to.

About Michael is a director of Metropole Property Strategists who help their clients grow, protect and pass on their wealth through independent, unbiased property advice and advocacy. He's once again been voted Australia's leading property investment adviser and one of Australia's 50 most influential Thought Leaders. His opinions are regularly featured in the media.
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