All cities are compared with New York in the survey, released on Tuesday, and researchers cited the sharp decrease of the South African rand against the US dollar as the reason why Johannesburg slipped to the bottom position.
They explained that currency movements have a direct effect on the cost of living.
Johannesburg replaced Asunción in Paraguay as the cheapest city, and Tokyo replaced Moscow as the most expensive place for expatriates to live.
The survey measures about 200 factors including rental and food. - Sapa
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This is further proof that you get lies, bigger lies, and then you get statistics. The cost of living should not refer to money earned in one country then spent in other countries, this cost of living comparison is for travellers not for people living and working in any one place compared to what people can buy for their money while living and working elsewhere in the world.
Those expats come from England or wherever then compare how much things cost here compared to what it cost where they come from, without taking into account the difference in what people earn in any given skills category in the respective countries.
If you are able to provide tables of scales of salaries and wages per month for different skills categories for several different countries, we will be able to determine for ourselves what the cost of services and commodities cost in these countries, so we can see where you are better off. - Bob Thorsen
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