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Lifestyle quiz

Which City Should You Actually Live In?

18 questions, about 4 min. Free, no sign-up.

The questions cover everyday preferences: how you like your mornings, how you handle a late train, and whether you'd rather eat somewhere new or somewhere that's been open for decades.

Your answers place you on three scales: pace (Unhurried or Fast), how much order you need (Orderly or Freewheeling), and the kind of character you're drawn to (Old soul or New wave). They match you to Tokyo, New York City, Lisbon or Copenhagen. You'll see your scores on each scale, how closely you match every city, and a write-up of your result: what your days would look like, which neighborhoods would suit you, when to visit, and what you'd miss from home.

There are 18 questions, mostly quick scenarios plus a few statements to agree or disagree with. It takes about four minutes.

Possible results

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  1. Your first morning in a new city, with nothing planned yet. It's almost noon. Where are you?
    • Three neighborhoods deep, with a step count I'll brag about later
    • Second in line at the ramen counter I bookmarked weeks ago
    • Still on a café terrace, second coffee, watching the street wake up
    • Cycling slowly along the water on a route I mapped over breakfast
  2. A friend texts at 6 p.m.: "Dinner tonight?" You had nothing planned. What do you suggest?
    • The new place I've been on the waitlist for. I'll check for a table
    • Let's just head out and see. Dinner might turn into three bars
    • The old family spot where they start my order when I walk in
    • Bread, cheese and a bottle of wine, eaten by the water till dark
  3. I feel most alive in a place where something is happening at every hour. (agree / disagree)
  4. It's Saturday and you've got three free hours before dinner. Which plan sounds best?
    • The exhibition everyone's arguing about, then a pop-up I saw online
    • A centuries-old garden, a pot of tea, and my phone left at home
    • A browse through a design shop, then a long swim at the harbor
    • Digging through a flea market for a vintage camera, then a street festival
  5. Pick the view you'd most like to wake up to every morning.
    • Forty floors up, the skyline already lit and moving
    • Terracotta roofs tumbling down to a glittering river
    • A narrow lane of lanterns, tiny bars and vending machines
    • A quiet canal, a row of bikes and a sleek new library
  6. A long, slow lunch in the middle of a weekday sounds like time well spent. (agree / disagree)
  7. Your ideal commute is the one part of the day you'd never trade. Which is it?
    • A spotless train that arrives at 8:14 exactly, every single day
    • A fast walk through crowds with coffee in hand and a podcast at double speed
    • An old tram creaking uphill past laundry lines and a river view
    • Twelve minutes by bike, in a lane wider than most roads back home
  8. Your apartment hunt is down to the final two places. What tips the decision?
    • It's five minutes from a station with trains till past midnight
    • It's above a bakery, a bar and a neighbor who plays saxophone at 2 a.m.
    • High ceilings, original tile floors and a balcony that catches the sunset
    • Heated floors, a shared courtyard garden and a building that composts everything
  9. I relax more when the trains, the bins and the paperwork all run on time. (agree / disagree)
  10. Two job offers land on the same day. The pay is similar. Which one do you sign?
    • The startup: big title, long hours and a shot at something huge
    • The century-old firm that trains people properly and promotes from within
    • The four-day week, with Fridays for the beach or the allotment
    • Freelance: less security, but my own hours and my own projects
  11. I'd pick a neighborhood of crooked old streets over one full of gleaming new buildings. (agree / disagree)
  12. Pick the food memory you'd fly back across the world for.
    • An eight-seat counter where the chef has made one dish for forty years
    • A slice of pizza folded in half on the sidewalk at 2 a.m.
    • Grilled sardines, a jug of house wine and a three-hour lunch
    • A tasting menu of foraged things I couldn't name, on handmade plates
  13. A bit of mess and unpredictability makes a place feel more alive to me. (agree / disagree)
  14. You've lived somewhere for a year. Which sign tells you you've truly settled in?
    • I know which train car stops right by the exit I need
    • I get invited to so many openings that I've started skipping some
    • The woman downstairs brings me soup and scolds me about my coat
    • I've got a Tuesday swim club and a Thursday board game night
  15. I'd happily trade a bigger apartment for living right in the middle of the action. (agree / disagree)
  16. A surprise long weekend opens up. Where does it take you?
    • Somewhere I'd barely heard of, booked the night before
    • The same lake cabin as every year, with the same stack of books
    • A big city, with a spreadsheet of twelve stops and zero wasted minutes
    • A sleepy fishing village with patchy signal and excellent grilled fish
  17. I get excited when a city tries something nobody else has done yet. (agree / disagree)
  18. The city plans to replace a crumbling old building on your street with something bold and new. Your reaction?
    • Finally. Cities that stop building start to fade
    • Fine, as long as there's a solid plan and neighbors get a say
    • Please don't. That corner has a hundred years of stories in it
    • Let the street artists have it for a summer first and see what happens