Moscow and London lost ground.
The most expensive city in the world for foreigners according to the version of the consulting group Mercer Human Resource in 2016 became the Hong Kong, overtaken on this indicator the capital of Angola is Luanda, which led the ranking in 2013.
Luanda has moved into 2nd place, lowering of its rating in the current year experts attribute to the weakening of the local currency.
Zurich and Singapore retained their last year’s position and occupied the third and fourth lines of the list, respectively. Tokyo is back in the top 10, climbing from 11th to fifth place.
For the first time in the top ten most expensive for expatriates cities were Kinshasa – the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo took sixth place. Also in the top 10 included Shanghai, Geneva, n’djamena and Beijing.
Many people are surprised that such ratings fall the cities, like the capital of Chad, n’djamena, although Chad is one of the poorest countries on the planet. Analysts explain such a high cost of living in such places, the need to import almost all goods of daily use.
Moscow moved from 17 positions down – from 50 th to 67 th place, Oslo – 21 line to 59 St, due to the collapse of the ruble and the Norwegian Krone to the U.S. amid falling oil prices. While St. Petersburg has retained last year’s 152-th place.
The most expensive cities for foreigners this year are the capital of Namibia, Windhoek, Cape town, South Africa and Bishkek.
Over the past year, London has fallen five places to 17 th place, Scottish Aberdeen moved to the 85-th line, the Birmingham to 96th, Glasgow is the 119-th place, having lost 10 positions, and Northern Irish Belfast on 134-m a place.
The German city has risen in the ranking Mercer: Munich now occupies 77-e a place, Frankfurt – 88-e, düsseldorf – 107-E.
Due to the strengthening U.S. cities led to a higher position in the ranking: new York remains the leader, moved up from 16th to 11th place, followed by San Francisco (26th) and Los Angeles (27th).
The most expensive city in South America is Buenos Aires, despite a drop of 22 points to 41 th place in the overall standings.
According to the study, monthly payment for a two-bedroom apartment of class “luxury” without the situation in Luanda is $6.7 thousand, in London – at least $4.6 thousand, and in Sydney – a little more than $2.6 thousand Pair of jeans, bought in Buenos Aires, will cost almost three times more expensive than in new York – $134,88, and a Cup of coffee in a Moscow cafe four times more expensive than in Johannesburg.
Lunch at a fast food restaurant in Hong Kong will cost $4,83, in London – $6,43 in new York – $7,82, and in Moscow – $3,03.[left][/left]
