Quality of life, for who?

The Monocle magazine did make an overview over the top 25 cities in the world hence to quality of life, huh! Surely they made a thought trough surveillance with a likable criteria selection. However these quality patterns in which are related to urban planning, utilization of public services, attractiveness of the labor market for your career and the amount of leisure possible during spare time may not always show the full picture. Certainly not if the ticket of being part of that quality of life segment is out of reach for the general bunch of longing souls. 

It may be unfair to criticize Monocle magazine for their clear and delightful guide to the best cities on our planet because quality of life is really something everyone may strive for wherever they may settle down. Still most peoples lives does contain a lot of stress and unwanted shortcomings. For most people quality comes at a price, which means compromises must be made on the basic needs to get a rear taste on the quality. Even quality is on sale so that you may buy an appearance of quality life without really getting the quality it is supposed to represent. So my question may be can a city really transform it's internals as fast as its externals. This may be a soul and body coherence question.

No need to keep things abstract using philosophical meta language. The essence is that quality of life is after my opinion closely related to an attitude where both moral and freedom are essential. Monocle is in some way cowering the aesthetics of being from an exterior point of view, however as the bible tells us-, a golden ring does not suit a pigs nose. This is not because a pig is an awful animal, but because it laying in mud while gold is assumed values of purity and cleanness.  In other words atitude and etiquette are all part of the quality of life. Before things get increasingly complicated I better be concrete.

If a city provide strong quality of life this should be something benefitting the broad masses of people. This means by instance that the cleaning personel may feel their job is a well regarded job, same for the garbage truck driver, teacher, banker and gardener. In other words be respekted for what you do, not how much you earn which may seriously be another matter. Quality of life in a city also means protecting common values, both materially and in an humanistic perspective. For example cities where renovated squares with costly tiling should not be covered by chewing gum at an instant, it simply doesn't represent quality living at all. A filthy city is disgraceful against every decent person. 

When it comes to the city I live in, Oslo, I don't see the honour worthy. Quality may be sparse in a city where very few may know what quality really mean, despite highe education rate. Oslo is at present a city which may be borrowing new clothes, but doesn't know how to wear them! It remains to be seen if the new clothes will create a different person. As it is now, it may seam as a disaster at the dinner parties. It may not matter much as long as cash is king.