City rated the most attractive municipality in the country

The city of Zug has been listed as the most attractive municipality in Switzerland in which to live in an analysis published in the renowned national weekly Weltwoche journal today.
 
Every municipality in the country with a population of over 2000, all 908 of them, was considered, with aspects such as level of education and the rates of unemployment taken into consideration.
 
Feusisberg in the canton of Schwyz came second and Steinhausen came third, up from 21st place last year. Mayoress Barbara Hofstetter was naturally delighted with this rating. "We may be the smallest but it is good to know we are the most attractive municipality in the canton," she said, adding that she and members of the council would toast this accolade when they had the opportunity.
 
As to other municipalities in the canton, Risch went down from third to fourth place this year, though Oberägeri went up from seventh place to sixth. Neuheim made it to ninth place, the first time it has actually appeared in the listing. Baar also made it to the top ten after coming up from 15th place last year. In a separate list, Baar came top as the tax paradise par excellence for married couples; nowhere else in Switzerland are rates so low in this category. Hünenberg came down from second to 12th place this year. As to the other Zug municipalities, Cham came 16th, Unterägeri 23rd and Menzingen 117th.
 
The list was actually devised by the IAZU consulting firm of Zurich. In addition to a number of municipalities from the cantons of Zug, Schwyz and Zurich, others from Lucerne, Geneva, Argovia, Graubünden and Nidwalden made it into the top 50. The 908th place actually went to Mümliswil-Ramiswil in the canton of Solothurn to the west of Olten (but it is still a lovely place as the second photograph shows).
 
Larger towns did not fare so well in the list this year with eight of ten of them actually coming further down than last year. However, Lucerne was able to improve by coming 106 places higher at 103rd and Bern improved by 56 places to come 261st this year.
 
Zurich came 59th, Winterthur 175th, the city of Geneva 258th, Basel 431st and St Gallen 457th. The top places by canton went to Bremgarten in Bern, Malans in Graubünden, Schenkon in Lucerne, Winkel in Zurich, Oberwil-Lieli in Argovia and Bottmingen in the rural canton of Basel.
 
Some 20 factors were taken into consideration in each municipality, ranging from economic and social development as well as the educational level of the people who live there, their wealth, the level of taxes and the number of companies set up there as well as the rate of unemployment as mentioned.