World’s Most Expensive Cities

One has to wonder what the most expensive city in the world is, but how can one measure such a unquantifiable thing such as the cost of a city? Over the past couple years a number of companies and surveys have attempted to identify the world’s most expensive cities and depending upon when the surveys were released and the methodology used, you would be surprised with how many different answers they have come up with. We will keep track of these and other surveys about the most expensive cities in the world as they are released.

2006 ECA International Cost of Living Survey
Harare, Zimbabwe ranks as the world’s most expensive city for expatriates due largely to the country’s soaring inflation.

2006 UBS Prices and Earnings Report
Oslo, London, Copenhagen, Zurich and Tokyo are the world’s most expensive cities in relation to a standardized basket of 122 goods and services.
London is named the most expensive city for living costs (including rent).

2006 Mercer Human Resource Consulting 2006 Survey
Moscow, Russia named world’s most expensive city.

2006 Economist Intelligence Unit’s
Olso, Norway named world’s most expensive city for worldwide cost of living.

2005 Mercer Human Resource Consulting Survery
Toyko, Japan named the city that is the most expensive in the world.

2005 Economist Intelligence Unit
Tokyo is still the most expensive city in the world for expatriates.

• Most Expensive City in the World
• Most Expensive City in the US
• Most Expensive Office Location
• Most Expensive College in the US (2005)
• Most Expensive Shopping Street
• Most Expensive State for Renters

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