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Most Honest Cities: Mumbai Is The Second-Most Honest City In The World Says This Survey
Friday, September 17, 2021 IST
Most Honest Cities: Mumbai Is The Second-Most Honest City In The World Says This Survey

Would you hand in a lost wallet or would you keep it? According to the results of a new experiment by Reader's Digest, more people are likely to hand in a wallet in Helsinki, Finland than in any other city in the world. Eleven out of 12 wallets were returned to their owners in the Scandinavian city.

 
 

India's Maximum City Mumbai is the world's second-most honest city, according to a survey conducted by Reader's Digest magazine. The magazine tested the honesty of hundreds of people in 16 countries by dropping wallets and recording how many were returned. It discovered that people in Helsinki are the most likely to return a found wallet, and Lisbon residents are the most likely to pocket the cash.
 
Around 200 pocket wallets with coupons, business cards and local currency worth around Rs 4,000 ($50) in different public locations like parks and shopping malls on the pavement in 16 cities: New York, Amsterdam, Berlin, Bucharest, Budapest, Helsinki, Lisbon, Ljubljana, London, Madrid, Moscow, Mumbai, Prague, Rio De Janeiro, Warsaw and Zurich. 
 
Here is the list of the most honest cities in the world:
 
1. Helsinki, Finland
 
 
Helsinki delights travellers with its sea-facing landscape, diverse architecture, world-famous design, and Nordic cuisine. But Finland's capital is also the world's most honest city in the world by returning eleven out of twelve lost wallets, an experiment conducted by Reader's Digest.
 
2. Mumbai, India
 
 
For India's maximum city it is a pleasant surprise where around 60% of the population struggling to live in the city's slums, a lot of them begging on the street, it doesn't seem to much of a negative assumption to think that more than nine lost wallets return by Mumbai residents and grab the second spot.
 
3. Budapest, Hungary
 
 
Budapest is not just a gorgeous city on the outside but it also has a big, clean heart on the inside. Eight out of twelve lost wallets were returned back in the ‘wallet’ test that was randomly conducted here.

 
 

4. New York City, USA
 
 
The city that never sleeps may be busy and bustling but it also has a big, honest conscience. Eight out of twelve wallets were honestly returned in the survey done by Reader’s Digest in New York.
 
5. Moscow, Russia
 
 
Today Moscow is not only the political centre of Russia but also the country's most populous city and its industrial, cultural, scientific, and educational capital. Despite being big, hectic cities, citizens of Moscow found time to return the wallets to their rightful owners. Moscow honours the returning seven out of twelve wallets that were randomly placed on busy streets.
 
6. Amsterdam, the Netherlands
 
 
The capital of Netherland’s Amsterdam is known for its artistic heritage, elaborate canal system and narrow houses with gabled facades, legacies of the city’s 17th-century Golden Age. Amsterdam, despite being big, hectic cities, citizens of Amsterdam and Moscow found time to return the wallets to their rightful owners.
 
Surveys like these give us a ray of hope in the chaos, humdrum and daily struggles of living in a big metropolis. They prove that mankind, by nature, is essentially honest.

 
 
 
 
 

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Serving political interests in another person's illness is the lowest form of human value. A 70+ y old lady has cancer.

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