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The Guardian has calculated the top 50 most expensive cities in the world. Using New York City as the baseline, Europe lands 20 of the top 40 most expensive cities in the world. Here's the list:

Europe Rank 2009 World Rank 2009 World Rank 2008 City Country Index 2009
1 4 8 GENEVA SWITZERLAND 109.2
2 6 9 ZURICH SWITZERLAND 105.2
3 7 7 COPENHAGEN DENMARK 105
4 11 10 MILAN ITALY 96.9
5 13 12 PARIS FRANCE 95.1
6 14 4 OSLO NORWAY 94.2
7 16 3 LONDON UK 92.7
8 18 16 ROME ITALY 91.2
9 19 21 HELSINKI FINLAND 90.5
10 21 19 VIENNA AUSTRIA 89.3
11 29 25 AMSTERDAM NETHERLANDS 85.7
12 30 45 BRATISLAVA SLOVAKIA 84.8
13 37 28 MADRID SPAIN 82.1
14 38 43 LUXEMBOURG LUXEMBOURG 82.1
15 38 31 BARCELONA SPAIN 82.1
16 41 39 BRUSSELS BELGIUM 81.6
17 46 18 ST PETERSBOURG RUSSIA 81.3
18 47 37 MUNICH GERMANY 81.2
19 48 40 FRANKFURT GERMANY 80.9
20 49 38 BERLIN GERMANY 80.8
by Magnifico on Wed Jul 8th, 2009 at 01:49:03 PM EST
*sigh* make that "Europe lands 20 of the top 50..." New York City is the baseline of 100.
by Magnifico on Wed Jul 8th, 2009 at 01:57:01 PM EST
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We. must. be. doomed.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Wed Jul 8th, 2009 at 02:06:55 PM EST
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And make that Mercer, not the Guardian, doing the calculation.

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Wed Jul 8th, 2009 at 02:17:43 PM EST
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Unless something has changed dramatically, I have trouble believing London is cheaper than New York.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Wed Jul 8th, 2009 at 05:58:16 PM EST
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I'd like to know what factors they are based on. The perspective of a visitor is clearly different from a resident, but I can usually get a decent hotel in Paris or Milan for around 50 Euros, and for slightly more (and slightly lower definition of "decent" in Zurich). This is close to impossible in NY. Does anybody have a breakdown of these studies, so that we can decide both whether figures are plausible, and, more importantly, are the relevant for us, or merely relevant for bankers deciding where to put their bonuses.
by gk (g k quattro due due sette "at" gmail.com) on Wed Jul 8th, 2009 at 06:09:20 PM EST
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I stayed at a hotel on 57th St in Manhattan, and I think our rate was only about $80/night.  This was definitely not low-end, being in Midtown, walking distance to Times Square, Rockefeller, the Park, and all that.

I was thinking of house prices, mostly.  The median in London, last I checked, was about £350k, while in New York it was about $400k.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Wed Jul 8th, 2009 at 07:29:32 PM EST
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