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The World's Most Expensive Cities 2010

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The World's Most Expensive Cities 2010

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The World's Most Expensive Cities 2010
by Venessa Wong
Monday, June 28, 2010

provided by BusinessWeek



My comments:
- not sure I agree totally with their methodology (too American-centric?), but at least it's a level playing field
- interesting to see the clump of basically all the major Swiss cities in the top 10
- what about that African city (in Angola) in the top 10? how did they get there? a few other african cities in the top 30 too
- the highest ozzie city in the list is Canberra at #27! can't be right...
- No canadian cities anywhere there! woo-hoo!
 
They neglect to mention prominently that these are the most expensive cities for relocation too.
Some African cities rank highly because the supply of accommodations acceptable to transplant employees is extremely small.
I'm sure more than 99% of the Angola population pays less than US$3500/month in rent. But the ex-pats who live in western-style housing may pay that or more.
 

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