The Research Question: How variable are quality of life and cost of living?
I decided to take a few varaibles from the Teleport urban areas API and create a formula to explore Quality of Life and Cost of living. I decided to look at it from the perspective of a college student entering the work force soon. So I will be choosing variables that pertain to students. So welcome to my Young Adult Urban Area rating guide complete with an interactive map. Ratings will be in 3 categories, Cost of Living, Quality of life, and overall.
The variables I used for my model and how much weighted they hold in the rating: * Will be filtering for countries where English is spoken, since a majority of us would not be able to work in a place with no English.
Quality of Life: * Percentage of happy students: because the happiness of students around our age is a decent gauge of how happy we will be. (1/10 points) * Crime rating: So we can all stay safe. (1/10 points) * Travel Connectivity: Young people will want to access to cheaper travel when quarantine is over. (1/10 poits)
Cost of living: * Average price for a small apartment: So we have an affordable roof. (3/10 points) * Average price of A Lunch: So we’re not dropping our whole paycheck on an average meal. (2/10 points)
Note: With this criteria high COL and high crime areas are severly dinged even though they may be great cities they may have scored low!
Instructions: Zoom in on an area and click on points to get a breakdown of its scores.
Here are the top 10 Cities based on our criteria:
| Urban_Area | lunch_price | avg_small_apt | education_happy | crime | travel | lat | lon | COL_rating | QOL_rating | overall_rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kuala Lumpur | 3.6 | 490 | 0.8798624 | 0.1812 | 0.5247 | 2.64260 | 101.247300 | 5.0 | 4.25 | 9.25 |
| Calgary | 14.0 | 990 | 0.7924683 | 0.7515 | 0.3137 | 50.65960 | -114.458400 | 3.5 | 4.75 | 8.25 |
| Victoria | 14.0 | 920 | 0.7924683 | 0.7285 | 0.1818 | 48.39183 | -123.442726 | 3.5 | 4.50 | 8.00 |
| Leeds | 19.0 | 920 | 0.8168455 | 0.5771 | 0.6906 | 53.73080 | -1.674092 | 3.2 | 4.75 | 7.95 |
| Manchester | 16.0 | 970 | 0.8168455 | 0.3854 | 0.6943 | 53.38190 | -2.491150 | 3.2 | 4.50 | 7.70 |
| Galway | 14.0 | 990 | 0.8131323 | 0.7984 | 0.2044 | 53.24241 | -9.142687 | 3.5 | 4.10 | 7.60 |
| Christchurch | 12.0 | 870 | 0.7837622 | 0.6386 | 0.1667 | -43.67680 | 172.327400 | 4.0 | 3.50 | 7.50 |
| Halifax | 14.0 | 870 | 0.7924683 | 0.6046 | 0.1969 | 44.59120 | -63.730316 | 3.5 | 3.85 | 7.35 |
| Montreal | 12.0 | 730 | 0.7924683 | 0.7313 | 0.4418 | 44.96800 | -74.734000 | 2.5 | 4.75 | 7.25 |
| Edmonton | 15.0 | 980 | 0.7924683 | 0.5904 | 0.2345 | 53.39565 | -113.714738 | 3.2 | 3.85 | 7.05 |