Top 5 Most Expensive Cities In The World
It is always the vision of Travel Feeder to feed travel tips to travelers around the world so travelers could visit their dream cities with the least budget and highest value, even to the most expensive cities in the world. Only recently, we have our latest target for this year: According to Mercer’s 2008 Cost Of Living Survey highlight released recently, Moscow, for the 3rd consecutive years, has been ranked 1st for the most expensive city in the world year 2008 while Tokyo is the most expensive city in Asia. For those who doesn’t know about Mercer’s Cost Of Living Survey, Mercer’s survey covers 143 cities across six continents and measures the comparative cost of over 200 items in each location, including housing, transport, food, clothing, household goods and entertainment. It is the world’s most comprehensive cost of living survey and is used to help multinational companies and governments determine compensation allowances for their expatriate employees. Here are the Top 5 Most Expensive Cities In The World:-
1) MOSCOW, RUSSIA
2) TOKYO, JAPAN
3) LONDON, UK.
4) OSLO, NORWAY
5) SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA
How many of these cities that you have conquered with least budget and greatest pleasure? We would be glad to hear your experience by commenting this post. – Travel Feeder.
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- July 28, 2008Well I live there and actually thought Oslo, Norway was on top. However, it should not prevent you from going there if you like to visit a small, charming town at the fjord, with 20 minutes to lovely mountains nature. Let me give a couple of examples of what you can experience:
* New Oslo Opera House
* Bogstad Manor
* Yule Market
* Vigeland Sculpture Park
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- July 29, 2008Interesting to see what the world’s most expensive cities are. So far I have lived in one of them, London. Would like to visit Moscow and Tokyo some day!
- July 29, 2008Nice pics here… I have visited Seoul-South Korea during my official visit. A nice and pleasures place ever.
- July 30, 2008I’m glad to have found your site!
- July 30, 2008The Moscow and Seoul photos are especially good; great lighting!
i have been to three of the five cities and I agree that they were very expensive in comparison with other cities. Great Moscow photo.
- August 1, 2008Been to Oslo and lived in London – I guess I need to start saving if I want to visit the others!
- August 3, 2008You have a very nice blog here. I love your pictures. Very informative. Did a great job!
- August 5, 2008Yep… everything is expensive in Tokyo. That’s why I love it here in Osaka. 🙂
- August 5, 2008Tokyo is so expensive that the Japanese when they come to Europe buy all. Therefore, some well-known brands in Paris, limit the number of things that Japanese can buy.
- May 22, 2010.-= Facts´s last blog ..Most expensive cheese =-.
I live in London, so I was like WTF, London isn’t too expensive but I would have thought Tokyo to be no1, I like Tokyo the best though! ^_^
- January 9, 2011South Korea looks good in the pics! vbut I would need to save alot to go there, but it sure looks like you would have the time of your life!
- April 21, 2011Hi,
I’ve visited Tokyo and Seoul but I must say that these two cities in my opinion are not the most expensive cities in the world. In Seoul, food prices in restaurants and the street are reasonable, and there’s a huge extensive subway system which isn’t expensive. Tokyo is more expensive however still affordable if you take their public transport and eat at the right places
I found Australia much much more expensive than Seoul or Tokyo, when it comes to eating and visiting tourist attractions!
- September 13, 2011I’ve only visited Korea so far. Definitely an expensive place compared to the SouthEast region (with the exception of Singapore)! But still, I did manage to buy some bargains…so it’s a matter of knowing where to look and knowing what to buy.
One problem though, accommodation is expensive!
- September 26, 2011seoul, south korea!!
- July 23, 2012