Top 20 Most Expensive Cities in The World (Numbeo.com, Mid 2011)

    BELGRADE, SERBIA, July 11, 2011 /24-7PressRelease/ -- In Numbeo's survey, New York is used as the base city for the index and scores 100 points, all cities are compared against New York and currency movements are measured against US Dollar and EURO. Sydney (Australia) scores 131.47 points and is nearly three times as costly as
Manila (Philippines) with 46.72 points.

In the mid of 2011, most expensive cities (excluding rent) are :
- Stavanger, Norway (CPI 186.74)
- Oslo, Norway (166.9)
- Zurich, Switzerland (164)
- Basel, Switzerland (158.95)
- Geneva, Switzerland (154.78)
- Lausanne, Switzerland (153.1)
- Perth, Australia (146.58)
- Lucerne, Switzerland (144.92)
- Copenhagen, Denmark (141.58)
- Monaco, Monaco (138.54)
- Bergen, Norway (137.9)
- Rotterdam, Netherlands (136)
- Sydney, Australia (131.47)
- Dublin, Ireland (129.88)
- Lugano, Switzerland (129.75)
- Nice, France (129.55)
- Tokyo, Japan (127.9)
- Amsterdam, Netherlands (126.81)
- Stockholm, Sweden (125.61)
- Brisbane, Australia (125.14)

For complete current rankings (updated biweekly) please visit Cost of Living Rankings (Current) at www.numbeo.com.

Numbeo.com (http://www.numbeo.com) is the largest free Internet database about cost of living and property prices worldwide. Numbeo.com allows visitors to estimate their own cost of living expenses if they are relocating. It uses data contributions from people all around the world to make statistical analysis of these data for free availability to everyone in a structured manner. Getting these informations earlier was far more expensive and difficult.

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