Ten best places to live on the Costa
It would seem US First Lady Michelle Obama did not choose to spend her brief Costa holiday in Benahavis by accident. This small town - just over 4,300 inhabitants, most of them foreigners - nestling in the mountains inland from the coast, has just been elected one of the places with the best quality of life on the Costa del Sol.
Starting out from a reference value of 100, the Synthetic Indicator of Wellbeing elaborated by Unicaja's Economic Analysts of Andalucia put Rincon de la Victoria at the top of the list (117.29), followed by Benalmadena (115.42), Marbella (114.13), Malaga (112.60), Alhaurin de la Torre (112.36), Benahavis (111.07), Ronda (110.84), Antequera (109.44), Fuengirola (107.19) and Velez-Malaga (106.57). The Indicator took into account, among other things, income per capita - €24,723 in Benahavis – and unemployment – only 6% of people of working age in Benahavis.
While towns in the interior did not do well in the survey, the Indicator found that they often had lower unemployment rates than the towns at the top of the list because the local people worked in agriculture.
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