Expensive Cities

[Barinthus]

Originally posted by JimmyCracksCorn
By the way, I'm renting a 4 bedroom townhouse with a basement and a rec room for $1,215 per month.

Do you guys consider that cheap?

A terrific deal. If this place was in Riverside, CA I'd be plotting to kick you out and taking over.

My place's 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom for same rent which is considered a good deal in my area.

(by the way I still need a third roommate )

[Bosh]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger


It's expat rating Bosh, so it may not agree with your personal experience.

Hmmmmmm

Mercer conducts the survey to help multinational companies and governments determine how much to pay their expatriate employees.

Hmmmmmmm

If that's what they're measuring maybe its high because corporations have to pay their employees a whole big wad of cash to get anyone in their right mind to move here

But still, there's no conceivable way that Seoul is more expensive than New York. Seoul is cheaper than rural Maine

[Tingkai]

Originally posted by JimmyCracksCorn
By the way, I'm renting a 4 bedroom townhouse with a basement and a rec room for $1,215 per month.

Do you guys consider that cheap?

I pay C$1,400 a mont for a two-bedroom apartment, 650 gross square feet (measured from the outside), actual is about 500 sq ft.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Bosh
But still, there's no conceivable way that Seoul is more expensive than New York. Seoul is cheaper than rural Maine

Suppose the expats don't cook and eat out at expensive restaurants every night, and suppose they only live in hotels or service apartments, that sorts of things.

You're thinking like a local

[Tingkai]

Originally posted by Bosh

But still, there's no conceivable way that Seoul is more expensive than New York. Seoul is cheaper than rural Maine

Like LoA says, they look at the cost of having the same lifestyle. So they look at things like how much would dinner cost at a American-style restaurant, how much does it cost to buy American food in a restaurant, etc.

It's also skewed because they usually talk to executives. so they're looking at highend lifestyles.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Tingkai
I pay C$1,400 a mont for a two-bedroom apartment, 650 gross square feet (measured from the outside), actual is about 500 sq ft.

Is that all inclusive, i.e., you don't have to pay for rates and management fees and so on? If so, it's not bad.

[Tingkai]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger
Is that all inclusive, i.e., you don't have to pay for rates and management fees and so on? If so, it's not bad.

All inclusive, and yeah it's okay, but rent rates are going up again.

Still, the interior is well designed and they knocked out a wall to create an open kitchen so it feels even bigger. I'm out in Heng Fa Chuen, near Chai Wan so the rents are cheaper than say over near Central.

You own your place in Hung Hom?

[Bosh]

Like LoA says, they look at the cost of having the same lifestyle. So they look at things like how much would dinner cost at a American-style restaurant, how much does it cost to buy American food in a restaurant, etc.

That's a remarkably stupid way of comparing cost of living. Can't people be a little flexible?

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Tingkai
Still, the interior is well designed and they knocked out a wall to create an open kitchen so it feels even bigger. I'm out in Heng Fa Chuen, near Chai Wan so the rents are cheaper than say over near Central.

You only have old residential buildings around Central The expensive ones are the massively hyped buildings, e.g. the Arch. So whose bright idea it is to put a hole in a high-rise anyway?

Originally posted by Tingkai
You own your place in Hung Hom?

Just renting out a flat in Homantin

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Bosh
That's a remarkably stupid way of comparing cost of living. Can't people be a little flexible?

Sure. Choose between expensive and very expensive

[Zoid]

Originally posted by BlackCat


Except for the fact that it is ... Gothenburg

Hah! Gothenburg pwns Copenhagen every time...

[Sikander]

Originally posted by Sprayber



We don't want all those people coming down here.

If everyone was here than it wouldn't be cheap anymore.

But you could sell your trailor for a pretty penny.

[Micha]

Originally posted by BeBro
Düsseldorf above Munich? Unbelievable!

I thought the exact same thing. Munich is (at least in Germany) considered the most expensive place to live in.

[Bosh]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger


Sure. Choose between expensive and very expensive

But that means that Seoul qualifies as expensive due to the cost of its imported designer clothes and its surf
and turf, i.e. the cost of stuff that you'd have to be an idiot to buy regularly if you lived here...

How ridiculous.

[DeathByTheSword]

damn amsterdam on the 24th place...didnt expect that actually thought it would be way cheaper i mean it isnt even a 1million people city...