Bacolod City Chosen as the Best Place to Live by MoneysenseIt’s an affirmation of my choice. From among 65 cities that were ranked, Bacolod City topped the list of “Best Places to Live” by MoneySense magazine. Heinz Bulos, Editor-In-Chief, said that in coming up with the ranking, they relied on two existing surveys, the Philippine Human Development Report and the Philippine Cities Competitiveness Ranking Project (PCCRP) of the Asian Institute of Management (AIM) for 2005. Whereas PCCRP uses seven criteria in ranking the cities, MoneySense chose only three – dynamism of local economy, infrastructure, and quality of life.
Bulos noted that Bacolod City can be considered as an over-achiever. Here’s why:
Most Competitive Mid-Sized City in the Philippines for two consecutive years.
- Based on the results of the PCCRP for the years 2003 and 2005, Bacolod City ranked high in all criteria from among the cities under the mid-sized category. These are non-metro cities with a population of more than 200,000.It ranked highest on Infrastructure and Quality of Life.
Clean and Green Hall of Fame Awardee
- Bacolod City was named the “Cleanest and Greenest Highly Urbanized City in the Philippines” for five years (1997, 1998, 2000, 2001 and 2002) earning it the distinction to be in the Clean and Green Hall of Fame.
Most Business Friendly Local Government Unit in the Philippines
- Bacolod bested 130 other cities when the Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry declared it the “Most Business-Friendly Local Government Unit in the Philippines” in 2007. It was the second year in a row for Bacolod to be named the “Most Business-Friendly City in the Visayas”. As the regional winner, it became a finalist and competed with the other regional winners and was chosen as the national winner.
Iloilo City, which was also on the Top 5 of PCCRP for Mid-Sized Cities category, ranked 5th. It should be noted that when Moneysense ranked the “Best Places to Live”, it did not categorize the cities as to population size but based the ranking on the three criteria only.
Is your city on the list?
Want to know if your city is on the Top 20? Here’s the complete list:
- Bacolod
- Makati
- Davao
- Marikina
- Iloilo
- Las Piñas
- Pasig
- San Fernando
- Mandaluyong
- Quezon City
- Manila
- Batangas
- Cagayan de Oro
- Muntinlupa
- Angeles
- Baguio
- Lipa
- Calamba
- General Santos
- Cebu
MoneySense has a lengthy article featuring the cities in the Top 10 of the “Best Places to Live” in the Philippines. Want to know why they’re on the Top 10? Go grab yourself a copy of the March-April 2008 issue.
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for me, makati is best city followed by tagaytay and marikina.
huh? are you kidding’? … Bacolod has never been the top of the list among the cities in the Philippines!!!???
besides, I never heard much about the progress about this city?…LoL
Ohhh…well, I have my own sources, ……….
hmmm…..according to my 7 sources….Bacolod always at the least….
you are so right mike!!! have been staying here at 14th st along Lacson st. and in front of el fisher hotel..and right at the corner of that stree you should see the garbage and illegal structures, and this only about 5 meters from the main street!!! i can send pictures if you like.
I’ve been some key cities in he Philippines but still Bacolod is the best place to live. Just come and visit Bacolod City and see it, stupid guys!
Nothing beats the cities in Mindanao such as Davao, Cagayan de Oro, General Santos, Zamboanga where their is less pollution, less crimes, low price commodities/standard of living, no traffic, no major calamities, nice people. And we have the same facilities found in Manila, Cebu, etc such as shopping malls,hotels, bars,night life & infrastructures. Ours is indeed heaven, in my opinion we have the best of both worlds.
ei! to those who are not satisfied with the survey, why dont you visit bacolod so you can see it for yourself. garbage in the streets is common here in the philippines, besides, we are not only talking about garbage here.. the cost of living in bacolod is reasonable, the standard of education, the businesses and infrastructures are good and becoming better each year, in fact, you can see new hotels and bars, and restaurants almost every year, and considering the population there,these only show how fruitful the bacolodnons are, not to mention that these infrastructures are owned by the residents of the city alone. the people there are very sophisticated and very refined.
Hi Marie! Probably when Moneysense conducted the ranking, the result of the 2007 PCCRP was not yet available. What happened between 2005 and 2007 for Bacolod? That is something that the LGU should worry about. Something should be done about this and it does not only concern the LGU but everybody else. Thank you for this info.
Yup, I already made a post on that 2007 PCCRP here.
Which do you find funny, the fact that bacolod was not on the top? or that those on top did not pass your standards. hehehe… i’m not justifying why Bacolod was not on top but there was some mistake on the part of CPDO. The documents submitted to AIM did not mention some of the big investments like the SM City, construction of several hotels and the entry of several call centers. Previous years it was the City Administrator who took charge of the submission.
There’s always a next year so I’m sure Bacolod will be there once again on the top.
That’s ok Roberto, everybody’s a little partial to our hometown. Anyway, Davao belongs to the Metro Category like Cebu whereas Bacolod and Iloilo belong to the Mid-Sized Category. Davao is a beautiful city as what I have been told. Haven’t been there but I’ll visit soon.
LOL! That’s probably because we have a San Miguel Brewery here. They even claim that San Mig here tastes better because of the water source. Oh well, beer tastes the same for me anywhere. hehehe
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