Top 10 most expensive cities and cheapest cities in the world (2015, renting)
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Top ten most expensive cities in the world 2015. List of top 10 most cheapest cities in the world.
Top 10 Most Expensive cities in 2015:
1) Singapore
2) Paris, France
3) Oslo, Norway
4) Zurich, Switzerland
5) Sydney, Australia
6) Melbourne, Australia
7) Geneva, Switzerland
8) Copenhagen, Denmark
9) Hong Kong, China
10) Seoul, South Korea
Top 10 Most Cheapest Cities in the World 2015:
1) Karachi, Pakistan
2) Bangalore, India
3) Caracas, Venezuela
4) Mumbai, India
5) Chennai, India
6) New Delhi, India
7) Tehran, Iran
8) Damascus, Syria
9) Kathmandu, Nepal
10) Algiers, Algeria
I've never seen a list anywhere showing what are actually the most and least expensive. They are all based on comparative prices for a basket of consumer prices, which are constant for all cities. Such as the cost of hiring a servant, the cost of buying and maintainng a car, the cost of heating and cooling, of having a suit dry cleaned or buying a new one, of theater tickets, of a trip by taxi to the airport, a Big Mac, a loaf of sliced white bread, etc. The people on the ground in Katmandu or Algiers, with the exception of expats and landlords, never buy those things, and therefore, the actual cost of living to an ordinary working stiff is completely unrelated to the index.
I certainly could live (and have done so) in a number of countries, without ever availing myself of any of the purchases on my list above, so my cost of living was quite different than what the UN thinks its field workers need in order to live in those cities.
New York and San Francisco are actually amazingly cheap places to live, because the cost of food and clothing and a private car in the USA is very cheap, compared to most world capitals. In many countries the cost of a new car is twice what it is in the US because of import duties, and the cost of fuel can be 4-5 times as much.
I've never seen a list anywhere showing what are actually the most and least expensive. They are all based on comparative prices for a basket of consumer prices, which are constant for all cities. Such as the cost of hiring a servant, the cost of buying and maintainng a car, the cost of heating and cooling, of having a suit dry cleaned or buying a new one, of theater tickets, of a trip by taxi to the airport, a Big Mac, a loaf of sliced white bread, etc. The people on the ground in Katmandu or Algiers, with the exception of expats and landlords, never buy those things, and therefore, the actual cost of living to an ordinary working stiff is completely unrelated to the index.
I certainly could live (and have done so) in a number of countries, without ever availing myself of any of the purchases on my list above, so my cost of living was quite different than what the UN thinks its field workers need in order to live in those cities.
New York and San Francisco are actually amazingly cheap places to live, because the cost of food and clothing and a private car in the USA is very cheap, compared to most world capitals. In many countries the cost of a new car is twice what it is in the US because of import duties, and the cost of fuel can be 4-5 times as much.
Agreed, it also seems to me that owning a ar in cities such as SF and NY seems unnecessary as public transport is top notch. So it's another cost that could easily be avoided, what about the cost of renting or of an average sized home, how would they compare with European cities? I'm interested to know if there's someone who's lived in both.
San Fransisco, Boston, and New York are the most expensive cities in the world. Following those, London or Geneva maybe.
Top 10 Most Expensive cities in 2015:
1) Singapore
2) Paris, France
3) Oslo, Norway
4) Zurich, Switzerland
5) Sydney, Australia
6) Melbourne, Australia
7) Geneva, Switzerland
8) Copenhagen, Denmark
9) Hong Kong, China
10) Seoul, South Korea
Are we talking the city alone or are we including outlying areas that are under the sphere of said city? Property values in San Francisco are very high by global standards.
Are we talking the city alone or are we including outlying areas that are under the sphere of said city? Property values in San Francisco are very high by global standards.
Property values? If it's calculated then Taipei would've made the list. The housing here is mother****ing ********.
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