Editing Franconia (section)

=== Quality of life ===
Franconia, as part of Germany, has a high [[quality of life]]. In the ''Worldwide Quality of Living Survey'' by [[Mercer (consulting firm)|Mercer]] in 2010, the city of Nuremberg was one of the top 25 cities in the world in terms of quality of life and came sixth in Germany.<ref name="mercer">{{cite web|url=https://www.mercer.de/referencecontent.htm?idContent=1381210|title=mercer.de|access-date=2016-07-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120118090450/http://www.mercer.de/referencecontent.htm?idContent=1381210|archive-date=2012-01-18|url-status=dead}}</ref> In environmental ranking Nuremberg came thirteenth in the world and was the best German city<ref name="mercer"/> In a survey by the German magazine, ''[[Focus (German magazine)|Focus]]'', on quality of life in 2014, the districts of Eichstätt and Fürth were among the top positions in the table.<ref>[http://www.focus.de/immobilien/bauen/focus-titel-landkreis-eichstaett-ist-die-lebenswerteste-region-deutschlands_id_3693199.html ''Landkreis Eichstätt ist die lebenswerteste Region Deutschlands''], [[Focus Online]], retrieved 10 September 2014</ref> In the ''Glücksatlas'' by [[Deutsche Post AG|Deutsche Post]] Franconia achieved some of the highest scores,<ref>[http://www.gluecksatlas.de/cms/2012/regionen.html ''Deutsche Post Glücksatlas''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304225756/http://gluecksatlas.de/cms/2012/regionen.html |date=2016-03-04 }}, retrieved 10 September 2014.</ref> but the region slipped in 2013 to 13th place out of 19.<ref>[http://www.nordbayern.de/region/glucksatlas-2013-franken-sind-so-unglucklich-wie-nie-zuvor-1.3260187 ''Glücksatlas 2013: Franken sind so unglücklich wie nie zuvor''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160917184704/http://www.nordbayern.de/region/glucksatlas-2013-franken-sind-so-unglucklich-wie-nie-zuvor-1.3260187 |date=2016-09-17 }}. Nordbayern.de, published 5 November 2013, retrieved 10 September 2014.</ref>