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with thousands of hotel rooms. The UK consulting firm Mercer, in a 2009
assessment "conducted to help governments and major companies place
employees on international assignments", ranked Honolulu 29th worldwide in
quality of living; the survey factored in political stability, personal
freedom, sanitation, crime, housing, the natural environment, recreation,
banking facilities, availability of consumer goods, education, and public
services including transportation
