http://money.cnn.com/pf/features/popups/costofliving/popup05.html

Tokyo, Japan is #1... no surprise there at all.

~20 American cities are ranked on list; my city is #61. :rolleyes:

Glasgow #40!Where I live!:DTokyo pretty expensive then?:P

3 London, United Kingdom

Im in england but its not as bad as london... by abit...

Tokyo pretty expensive then?:P
I would assume so :rolleyes:

Good to know that the first U.S. city listed is where I could potentially be working :P

Let's go live in Paraguay...heh my city's a little lower down on the list :p

Nothing in Texas is even on there. :P

wow i never thought Moscow was so expensive! it probably is very expensive relatively, but whenever we go there everything seems so cheap :P

sophie: 70 Houston, United States

Suprised there is only 3 UK cities in the list!

47! (Birmingham, United Kingdom) - surprised it even got on the list!

:)

~20 American cities are ranked on list; my city is #61. :rolleyes:

Hey, I'm gonna BE there tomorrow night! Can't wait - never been to Hawaii.

sophie: 70 Houston, United States

Ugh. FINE! :buckt: No just kidding. Haha. My list looking skills are not up to date. I don't like Houston anyways... haha... too humid.

hahah well i didn't see it at first anyway, i was just curious about what American cities they had so i searched the page for United States and saw it :D

I was kind of surprised Calgary was on that list, I didn't realize that it might rank up there... The other 3 Canadian ones are pretty obvious though!

New York City is #13.It's not that expemsive. When i went to copenhagen and stockholm 2 years ago the stuff there was so cheap... now copenhagen is #8!

New york should be #50 because depending on which area, the time of the year and how much you are buying or looking to spend might be a little or a whole lot.

Any hows, i wouldn't trade nyc for anything in the world.

my city is #61. :rolleyes:

Our capital (25 km from here) is just before yours at 60. But they wrote it wrong, it should be Tallinn.

I would have never thought Mexico City would be on there. It is 90 something on the list. I have always herd how cheap everything is there. Heh... I guess I was wrong.

New York City is #13.It's not that expemsive.

Real estate is crazy in NYC; I don't know if they counted estate prices as part of the ranking, but if they did, it would explain it.

Real estate is crazy in NYC; I don't know if they counted estate prices as part of the ranking, but if they did, it would explain it.
from what I understood, it's basically cost of living- and that's obviously a living expence right there.

the city I go to school in is actually pretty cheap to live in, and yet the dorm I lived in last year sat on an acre and a half of land that was assessed at $1.5 million- A MILLION DOLLARS AN ACRE (the whole building is valued at $35 million). and that's in a cheap city. NYC must be nuts.

what do they mean by most inexpensive?
like the city that gets the lowest budget or what?
lol *confused*

my city isnt even up there.

Mercer conducts the survey to help multinational companies and governments determine how much to pay their expatriate employees. The survey includes 144 cities across the world, and measures costs including housing, food, clothing, transportation and entertainment.

http://money.cnn.com/2005/06/21/pf/costliest_cities/

haha i see.
lol.

hm, i never would have guessed tokyo to be #1 though. i thought it would be expensive because it's a big city.
oh well.

hm, i never would have guessed tokyo to be #1 though.

Tokyo is really not a surprise -- at all. It is a big city, of course, but you have take into count their population and rent costs are extreme. Japan altogether is just about the same size as California, yet they have half the population of the U.S. Not to mention, Tokyo is one of the busiest business cities.

A cup of coffee with table service, meanwhile, will run you about $3.30 in New York, $5.48 in Tokyo and $1.10 in Buenos Aires.