An honest quiz, no gamification. Twelve questions on cost, climate, work, and lifestyle. The output is your top 5 best fit cities ranked by weighted match, with a one line verdict on each.
The quiz weights your answers across nine axes that the everycity index already tracks: cost, tax, safety, climate, walkability, transit, internet, language, and visa difficulty. Each question contributes points to one or more axes; the engine then ranks all 50 cities in the database against your weighted profile and returns the top five. There is no marketing scoring. Cities cannot pay to climb. The output is the same engine that powers the remote work ranking, the family living ranking, and the cheapest cities ranking; the difference is the weights are yours, not ours.
What the quiz cannot tell you. Whether you will like the food. Whether the social scene fits your shape. Whether your partner will tolerate the weather. The quiz narrows the choice from 5,000 to 5; the next move is the city profile, which we publish for every result. The Dubai report, the Lisbon report, and the Tokyo report are the standard reads after the quiz.
No marketing copy, no email gate. Hit submit and the engine returns the top 5.
All 12 questions are required. The engine weights answers, scores all 50 cities, and returns the top 5 by composite fit.
Three steps: weighting the axes, scoring each city, ranking the result.
The quiz cannot rule out a city you would still love; it can rule out the cities the spreadsheet says will not fit. Treat the top 5 as the shortlist worth visiting, not the final answer. For the city by city deep read, follow the link from each result to the full profile. For the side by side view across two finalists, the comparison index lists every supported pair.
What the engine returns for the most common reader profiles in our 2026 survey.
For each archetype the full ranking sits on its dedicated page: lowest tax cities, cities for families, cities for digital nomads. Pair the quiz output with the relevant ranking before you book the scouting trip.
Anyone who tells you the quiz returns one perfect city is selling something. The honest output is a shortlist of five that all clear the bar your answers set. Pick the two that excite you, run the relocation score on each, then visit. The visit is what tells you which city your nervous system actually settles in. The numbers narrow the choice; the city tells you the rest.
Three follow on tools that pair well with the quiz: the cost of living calculator, the visa difficulty checker, and the climate match. Run all four, then book a flight.