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London has been ranked only 16th - below Lille, Zurich and Montreal - in a global league table of the best places for millennials to live in.
The capital scored particularly badly - coming 90th out of the 100 cities analysed - for the availability of affordable housing, and a lowly 81st for the number of music festivals compared with its population.
It failed to top any of the 16 categories but came second for “tourism” behind only Venice and equal third for “nightscene” after Berlin and Paris.
But bizarrely London ranked only 34th for “transport” - judged on scale of metro and tram networks, availability of Uber, and existence of a bike-sharing scheme - behind relatively tiny centres such as Auckland in New Zealand and Brno in the Czech Republic.
On immigration tolerance, London, one of the world’s most famously diverse conurbations, did even worse, and was ranked only 51st.
The capital also came only 47th for employment prospects behind economic “minnows” such as Graz in Austria and Canberra in Australia.
Ömer Kücükdere, managing director of Nestpick, a website for finding furnished apartments, said ““Millennials travel more at a younger age than any of their preceding generations; this gives them the possibility to find the perfect city for their personal needs.
“With aging populations cities must cater to the Millennial demographic in order to sustain a thriving economy.”
The overall winner was Amsterdam followed by Berlin and Munich.
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