THE WORLD’S MOST EXPENSIVE CITIES

The Economist Intelligence Unit has released their 2016 Worldwide Cost of Living survey. Here is their list of the World’s 10 Most Expensive Cities in which to live in 2016:
1. Singapore
2. Zurich, Switzerland
2. Hong Kong
4. Geneva, Switzerland
5. Paris
6. London
7. New York
8. Copenhagen, Denmark
9. Seoul, South Korea
10. Los Angeles

Here are the World’s 10 Least-Expensive Cities in which to live in 2016:
World’s 10 least expensive cities in which to live in 2016
124. Damascus, Syria
124. Caracas, Venezuela
126. New Delhi
127. Almaty, Kazakhstan
127. Algiers, Algeria
127. Chennai, India
127. Karachi, Pakistan
131. Mumbai, India
132. Bangalore, India
133. Lusaka, Zambia
* Thanks for the lists, but I actually wasn’t planning on moving to any of these.
* It’s cheap to live in those last few, all right. If you call that living.
* I would have thought “Field of Dirt, Somalia” would be on the Least Expensive list.
* If you want a nightmare, forget these. Check out what’s happening in South Sudan right now.
* NPR just did a story called “Nothing Is Going Right in the World’s Newest Nation.”
* I hear Lusaka is an ancient word meaning, “Festering hellhole.”
* Some of these places are so poor we don’t even bother to fly drones over them.
* You want something crazy? Check out how much you pay in taxes to own a car in Singapore. Only 15% of the people have cars and they’re taxed at over 100% of their cost.