Shanghaiist: Shanghai gets cheaper, still more expensive than Beijing

guest

Mon, 01 Oct 2007 17:49:14 +0800

hi, I am very interested in the cost of living index 2006 for comparison. Would you please offer the 2006 one. thank you !!!

meowcat

Wed, 11 Apr 2007 01:55:36 +0800

It would be nice if I could visit one of those cities someday. Thank you for the information. I had an updated list of most expensive real estate here. You might want to visit them. Most Expensive Real Estate

chase

Sat, 10 Mar 2007 11:58:32 +0800

Houston deserves no place on this list. Austin is much more expensive to live in. This whole list must be utterly useless.

Lee

Sat, 10 Mar 2007 05:56:24 +0800

Wait a minute, Pittsburgh is tied at 63 with Boston, and Philly isn't even on the list? Having lived in all three places, I can tell you that Boston is more expensive than Philadelphia is more expensive (by a long shot) than Pittsburgh. I also agree -- no way Chicago is more expensive than DC. Not even if you take the entire region into account.

Mike

Fri, 09 Mar 2007 12:43:20 +0800

This list is flawed. Berlin is certainly not more expensive than Washington DC, nor Stockholm. Berlin is the cheapest large city in the Western world.

anonymous

Fri, 09 Mar 2007 08:29:35 +0800

This list is way off. Having lived in Hong Kong, Boston, Washington DC, New York, San Diego and now Hamilton, Bermuda. I can tell you Hamilton should be way up on the list. Average one family house is $1.6 million. One bedroom rental in town is $2500 US/month.

anonymous

Fri, 09 Mar 2007 07:18:02 +0800

i'm assuming new york city is including the outer boroughs bronx, brooklyn, queens, staten island, and long island because those areas make cost of living significantly less.

Rodnick

Fri, 09 Mar 2007 07:13:45 +0800

There is no way Washington DC is less expensive than Chicago! I wonder how they came up with these numbers; living in downtown DC is insanely expensive because it is such a tiny tiny area. If you want to live out in the sticks in Virginia or Maryland, that is another story.

Diganta

Fri, 09 Mar 2007 06:44:20 +0800

Sorry Hong Kong is not part of the PRC yet. Come back in 2047 Hong Kong will then seize to be SAR, as it should be listed. @ nanheyangrouchuan. Hong Kong SAR not fully part of China yet. Get your facts right.

Dave

Fri, 09 Mar 2007 05:25:50 +0800

I don’t know what indexes the Economist was using to formulate this list, but I live in San Francisco for 10 years and I’ve been to Tokyo and Tokyo seemed on the surface to be a bit cheaper than SF. I even looked at apartment rental prices, cost of food, etc. Just to make sure I wasn’t imagining things, I asked several people I know who’ve just moved over from Tokyo to SF and they made similar comments that supported my own observations. So what gives? Where are they getting these numbers from?

J.J

Thu, 08 Mar 2007 18:16:16 +0800

As a Shanghainese, I have been shanghaied by Shanghai for a bloody 23, almost 24 shanghai years. Will quit soon. Damn!

jing

Thu, 08 Mar 2007 13:33:38 +0800

though its harder for us Chinese people to live in this big city. I read the news: the latest graduates from colleges in China only can earn RMB1,000~2,000/pm. shanghai daily photo

Tim B

Thu, 08 Mar 2007 12:38:34 +0800

D'oh! I blame MS Word & its highly reliable search function and not author oversight. Sorry. Nonetheless, congratulations Houstoniist, welcome to the gang - you can play in the sandpit with the rest of us. However, I do find it ironic that Houston-Shanghai-Yao Ming connection is imprinted in my psyche, but then I miss the opportune reference. Ugh. At least I picked up on the Miami issue.

plex

Thu, 08 Mar 2007 12:35:42 +0800

If Houston is comparable to Adelaide and Tel Aviv, then it must be one helluva boring and conservative place. :P

Houstonist Jim

Thu, 08 Mar 2007 12:07:19 +0800

Hey! Houston is on the list — tied for No. 47 with Adelaide and Tel Aviv. What's interesting about this is that, according to this ranking, Houston is only slightly cheaper than Washington, D.C., and I know for a fact that isn't true. But I'm no EIU-er.

Tim B

Thu, 08 Mar 2007 10:34:37 +0800

@The List... We just wanted to respect the EIU's copyright and terms of use... Economist Intelligence Unit Worldwide Cost Of Living 2007 This full listing is for journalists' information only. © 2007 The Economist Intelligence Unit Limited. You may report on it but you may not reproduce all or a substantial part of the table. You may have noted that elsewhere.

nanheyangrouchuan

Thu, 08 Mar 2007 10:25:13 +0800

Nice to see The Economist has gone ahead and liberated HK from China.

The List

Thu, 08 Mar 2007 09:52:27 +0800

Why didn't you publish the entire list? Rank (last year) City COUNTRY Index 1 (1) Oslo Norway 132 2 (4) Paris France 130 3 (6) Copenhagen Denmark 126 4 (7) London UK 125 5 (2) Tokyo Japan 124 6 (4) Osaka Kobe Japan 118 6 (3) Reykjavik Iceland 118 6 (8) Zurich Switzerland 118 9 (12) Frankfurt Germany 116 9 (10) Helsinki Finland 116 11 (13) Seoul South Korea 115 12 (9) Geneva Switzerland 112 12 (11) Vienna Austria 112 14 (16) Milan Italy 108 14 (24) Singapore Singapore 108 16 (14) Hong Kong Hong Kong 107 16 (14) Munich Germany 107 18 (19) Berlin Germany 106 18 (16) Sydney Australia 106 20 (21) Brussels Belgium 104 20 (16) Dublin Ireland 104 20 (n/a) Nouméa New Caledonia 104 20 (21) Stockholm Sweden 104 24 (19) Melbourne Australia 103 25 (24) Lyon France 102 26 (23) Amsterdam Netherlands 101 26 (29) Moscow Russia 101 28 (27) New York US 100 29 (27) Düsseldorf Germany 99 29 (26) Manchester UK 99 31 (35) Barcelona Spain 98 31 (31) Rome Italy 98 33 (35) Madrid Spain 97 34 (32) Hamburg Germany 96 34 (43) Vancouver Canada 96 36 (35) Chicago US 95 36 (40) Luxembourg Luxembourg 95 36 (43) Montreal Canada 95 39 (35) Los Angeles US 94 40 (35) Perth Australia 93 41 (32) Brisbane Australia 92 41 (40) San Francisco US 92 43 (47) Toronto Canada 90 44 (40) Abidjan Cote d'Ivoire 89 44 (52) St Petersburg Russia 89 44 (46) Washington, DC US 89 47 (45) Adelaide Australia 88 47 (48) Houston US 88 47 (52) Tel Aviv Israel 88 50 (29) Auckland New Zealand 87 51 (51) Shanghai China 86 51 (32) Wellington New Zealand 86 53 (48) Istanbul Turkey 85 53 (48) Taipei Taiwan 85 55 (54) Athens Greece 84 55 (54) Miami US 84 55 (54) Minneapolis US 84 55 (58) Prague Czech Rep 84 59 (63) Lagos Nigeria 83 59 (58) Lisbon Portugal 83 61 (58) Detroit US 82 61 (58) Seattle US 82 63 (58) Beijing China 80 63 (63) Boston US 80 63 (67) Guatemala City Guatemala 80 63 (63) Pittsburgh US 80 63 (63) Warsaw Poland 80 68 (67) Dakar Senegal 79 68 (71) Dalian China 79 68 (57) Mexico City Mexico 79 71 (69) Lexington US 78 72 (70) Amman Jordan 77 73 (100) Jakarta Indonesia 76 73 (91) Lusaka Zambia 76 75 (75) Shenzhen China 75 76 (71) Guangzhou China 74 77 (74) Cleveland US 73 77 (75) Honolulu US 73 79 (80) Casablanca Morocco 72 79 (71) Dubai UAE 72 79 (82) Kiev Ukraine 72 79 (87) Rio de Janeiro Brazil 72 79 (87) Sao Paulo Brazil 72 84 (81) Atlanta US 71 85 (82) Abu Dhabi UAE 70 85 (n/a) Suzhou China 70 87 (84) Bogota Columbia 69 88 (87) Doha Qatar 68 88 (95) Kuala Lumpur Malaysia 68 88 (93) Nairobi Kenya 68 88 (84) Santiago Chile 68 92 (107) Bangkok Thailand 67 92 (107) Belgrade Serbia & Montenegro 67 92 (77) Budapest Hungary 67 92 (91) Ho Chi Minh Vietnam 67 96 (84) Bahrain Manama Bahrain 66 96 (95) Bucharest Romania 66 98 (87) Riyadh Saudi Arabia 65 98 (95) Tianjin China 65 100 (77) Johannesburg South Africa 64 100 (77) Pretoria South Africa 64 100 (n/a) Qingdao China 64 103 (106) Bandar Seri Begawan Brunei 63 103 (95) Kuwait City Kuwait 63 103 (93) Muscat Oman 63 106 (104) Hanoi Vietnam 62 106 (100) Montevideo Uruguay 62 106 (100) Quito Ecuador 62 109 (100) Jeddah Saudi Arabia 61 109 (95) Panama City Panama 61 111 (104) Al Khobar Saudi Arabia 60 111 (117) Almaty Kazakhstan 60 111 (107) Lima Peru 60 111 (110) Sofia Bulgaria 60 115 (111) Phnom Penh Cambodia 59 116 (113) Cairo Egypt 58 116 (113) Colombo Sri Lanka 58 118 (112) Caracas Venezuela 57 118 (115) Damascus Syria 57 120 (117) Buenos Aires Argentina 54 120 (117) Tashkent Uzbekistan 54 122 (120) San Jose Costa Rica 53 123 (115) Algiers Algeria 52 124 (124) Asuncion Paraguay 51 125 (121) Dhaka Bangladesh 46 126 (n/a) Kathmandu Nepal 45 126 (122) New Delhi India 45 126 (122) Tripoli Libya 45 129 (126) Karachi Pakistan 44 129 (124) Mumbai India 44 131 (127) Manila Philippines 43 132 (128) Tehran Iran 34

Tim B

Thu, 08 Mar 2007 09:35:22 +0800

I should clarify, I've met a more than a few Europe-separatist Brits in my day. This guy sums the gist of what I mean. http://homepage.mac.com/keith.wilson/iblog/C344154421/E1518333470/index.html This guy is probably the bad flipside of this argument. http://www.care2.com/c2c/people/profile.html?pid=399410262 -Tim

foo

Thu, 08 Mar 2007 09:17:08 +0800

I thought the UK was part of the EU, just not yet a part of the monetary system? yours, a confused British guy who has been away a while.