World's most expensive City

[Monk]

I live in the most expensive city in the EU. Zoinks. I'm moving to Sweden - no, wait -

[PLATO]

I think that it is interesting that New York and Chicago made the top ten and then L.A. was recognized for being among the leaders in buying power. I wonder what's up with that?

[C0ckney]

i'm not at all surprised that london was in there :/

[Dinner]

I'm surprised Paris didn't make the list. I guess the French are doing something ight after all. At least when it comes to affordable houseing.

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by Buck Birdseed
I think it's a small price to pay.

It's quite steep according to the survey though.

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by Oerdin
I'm surprised Paris didn't make the list. I guess the French are doing something ight after all. At least when it comes to affordable houseing.

Paris, affordable housing ?!
Heck, the only thing that prevents Paris from making it to the list is that people from city centres can go to cheap hyperrmarkets in the suburbs.
You have to get pretty far from the centre, or pretty low on the social scale to have affordable housing in the Paris region

[Dinner]

You have to admite Paris isn't on the list so it is less expensive.

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by Oerdin
You have to admite Paris isn't on the list so it is less expensive.

For everyday's needs, that's for sure. Housing in Paris centre must also be cheaper than in Tokyo and Manhattan, but tha's about it. Except for the few remaining low income houses, you now have to be real rich if you want to inhabit Paris.

[PLATO]

Spiffor your comments have raised a question for me. Do you believe that we are creating a different economic class to simply support our large cities? What impact does having huge metro areas have on things like wages and inflation in a country as a whole? Is their growing seperation, in terms of distance, with the working class(surely the lower waged workers would need to be housed away from the pricey housing)? What do you think?

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by PLATO
Do you believe that we are creating a different economic class to simply support our large cities? What impact does having huge metro areas have on things like wages and inflation in a country as a whole? Is their growing seperation, in terms of distance, with the working class(surely the lower waged workers would need to be housed away from the pricey housing)? What do you think?

Well, O don't know if I got all your questiosn right, but I don't think there is anything new in geographic / urban segregation (i.e putting the poor away from the rich). The trend is extremely clear today in the light of the American suburbian sprawl, or if you see Paris region's social geography, but I think such an obviousness comes mainly from modern transportation systems.

Indeed, thanks to cars or far-reaching mass transit systems, it is now possible to have cities much more spread than before. As such, people from different classes can live far away from one another, while still working in the same urban pole where they need each other.

I think technology has only made the distance between rich and poor residential zones greater. But it hasn't created the separation between rich and poor areas. I'm pretty sure even the ancient Egyptians had their rich and poor quarters...

[Spiffor]

Oerdin:
Well, if it says anything, Paris is 13th on the list :brag:

[Dinner]

Originally posted by Spiffor
Oerdin:
Well, if it says anything, Paris is 13th on the list :brag:

I was trying to complement Paris for finding a way to make a major city affordable.

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by Oerdin
I was trying to complement Paris for finding a way to make a major city affordable.

Yes, but it sadly doesn't work Except if you are living in the suburbs that is.

[Mercator]

The survey said people in Miami, Los Angeles and Chicago needed to work just 10 minutes to earn enough to buy a Big Mac from a McDonald’s restaurant. That compared to three hours, five minutes for a worker in Nairobi, Kenya

What the...!!?

We have a McDonald's TV commercial over here that says: "This is how much a plumber has to work to buy a hamburger"... and then they show a plumber looking at a sink for 2 seconds. The bastards! They're lying!

[Sava]

Chicago #9???!!! above LA??? wtfz.... now I know that is BS...