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In this paper we examined, whether local infrastucture and policy influence the life satisfaction of the urban young. For this, we used the last three waves of the Qualitiy of Life in European Cities survey. Accordign to our results, city-level characteristics matter for young people's life satisfaction. Higher GDP per capita tends to translate into higher life satisfaction. However, high GDP is not important per se, but partly because these cities have lower unemployment and partly because they can provide better quality public services, facilities and a more liveable environment for their residents. Higher urban development is associated with less affordable housing, but interestingly, our results show that this does not significantly reduce life satisfaction among young people. In our study, we focused in particular on the Visegrad countries, especially on Hungary. Budapest and Miskolc are the most dissatisfied cities after Athens. Although both cities, especially Miskolc, have indeed rather poor indicators in terms of urban characteristics, satisfaction with life among young people is still much lower than one would expect from these characteristics. In Bratislava, Warsaw and Prague, both city-level indicators and life satisfaction are higher. |
