Perth has maintained its ranking as the world's seventh most liveable city, beating Sydney at number 11 and just being pipped by Adelaide.
The rankings by The Economist once again places Melbourne at the top for the seventh consecutive year, with Vienna, Vancouver, Toronto and Calgary rounding out the top five.
The Economist's 'liveability' report is sold to corporations so they can decide on extra pay levels for executives who move abroad.
It recommends a percentage employees should get on top of their salary if they are asked to live in a city with a poor liveability ranking.
To find the rankings the report said "every city is assigned a rating of relative comfort for over 30 qualitative and quantitative factors across five broad categories: stability; healthcare; culture and environment; education; and infrastructure.
"Each factor in a city is rated as acceptable, tolerable, uncomfortable, undesirable or intolerable."
So by coming at number seven, it seems Perth is far from being considered a hardship post for high flying business people.
The city scored a perfect 100 for healthcare, education and infrastructure and 95 for stability, but just 88.7 for culture and environment.
In comparison, Damascus in war-torn Syria was deemed the world's worst among the 140 cities surveyed, followed by Lagos in Nigeria, Libyan city Tripoli, Bangladeshi capital Dhaka, and Port Moresby in Papua New Guinea.
The Economist said the threat of terrorism and incidences of civil war are major factors affecting a city's liveability ranking, with US cities seeing their scores affected by "mounting civil unrest linked to the Black Lives Matter movement and the policies proposed by the 45th US president, Donald Trump."