Friday curious. Where life is cheapest/most expensive

[nairiporter.livejournal.com]

The Movehub platform has published some info about where it is the cheapest and costliest to live. The index is based on data about rent prices, essential goods, foods, restaurant dinners, etc. The infograph is quite illustrative. Turns out the most expensive place to live is Switzerland, and India is the cheapest. See for yourselves:

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[htpcl.livejournal.com]

Brb, packing up to move to FYROMia...

[stewstewstewdio.livejournal.com]

Really? I'm moving to England, Canada or Australia to sell blue jeans.

[kylinrouge.livejournal.com]

As a resident of NYC, and knowing people who live upstate NY, this chart is meaningless to me. Take out Moscow and it's probably dirt cheap to live in Russia, same with London, Paris, etc. I bet it's far more expensive to live in several US/EU cities than anywhere in Switzerland.

[nairiporter.livejournal.com]

Don't bet your money on that (http://www.expatistan.com/cost-of-living/index). ;-)

[kylinrouge.livejournal.com]

Even within cities, there are points that are more expensive than others. Cost of living in Switzerland more than Downtown Manhattan?

(I gotta be right somewhere down this rabbit hole!)

[nairiporter.livejournal.com]

You better be! Otherwise my head will start spinning from the frenzied goalpost-shifting! :-))

[kylinrouge.livejournal.com]

I totally found a loft in Manhattan worth more than the GDP of Switzerland. So there.

[nairiporter.livejournal.com]

;-)

[johnny9fingers.livejournal.com]

A Coke in a nightclub in Monaco will set you back $50. A bottle of Krug needs a mortgage.

[telemann.livejournal.com]

I had a friend visit Lausanne, Switzerland. He said the food portions were so small, and very expensive. A bowl of soup and a wee sandwich with a wee sized coffee came to around 25.00 EU. And it was just "Ok." And this wasn't at a airport or hotel restaurant (they tend to be very pricey). So that chart referenced below is right on target. But I've noticed too, whenever UK friends visit here, they've consistently commented on the better variety and inexpensive prices of food, and larger serving sizes; that's so surprising to me, because I just don't think of NYC food as being cheap(er).

[ddstory.livejournal.com]

Apparently, the US just cannot afford (pun unintended) to be beaten in any one chart, even if that's the expensiveness of its life.

[abomvubuso.livejournal.com]

This one is also interesting.

[mikeyxw.livejournal.com]

It is interesting, but I don't believe you can find a music CD on sale in Beijing that costs more than $1.

[sandwichwarrior.livejournal.com]

I can believe that's the "official" price, but in my experience only suckers pay the full asking price.