Today, the quality of life in large cities is decreasing. Discuss the causes and solutions.

While some believed that our

quality

of

life

is improving with the advent of technology, people's living

quality

is, in fact, dwindling for two reasons,

firstly

decrease in purchasing power and

secondly

the emergence of pollution problems. Yet, I believe there are still ways to rectify the problem as long as stakeholders are willing to take action.

To begin

with, citizen's purchasing power is shrinking so is their

life

satisfaction. While the price level is continuously escalating, the average salaries are stagnant in developed

cities

. A typical case in point, Hong Kong- notorious for its skyrocket

life

index has

also

ranked almost the

last

in the survey of the happiest city in the world.

This

can be explained by its expansive living cost along with unchanged wages for twenty years which result in

high stress

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high-stress

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levels and barely maintenance in providing food on the table.

In addition

, the problems of air pollution and climate change have worsened throughout the

last

decade in urban

cities

. The construction of infrastructure in modern

cities

is at the expense of our natural resources like air, water, to name just a few.

This

hence

causes a reduction in the

quality

of living in cosmopolitan

cities

. The issue of decreasing

life

quality

in large

cities

is a thorny problem with no easy solutions. The governments should step up so as to enhance people's

quality

of

life

. It is only through law enforcement,

for instance

, raising the minimum wages and restriction on air pollutant emission could the

life

satisfaction of residents be improved. To conclude, to solve the lower

quality

of

life

attributed to environmental problems and the high price index, the official should act now without

further

ado.