Re:The Most Expensive Cities in the World
by electromagnetic on Tuesday March 16, 2010 @12:25AM
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Is it just me, but every city at and below the 100 mark are world renowned for their criminal histories, and all the cities above it are not.
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Chicago is 36 and it has had its fair share of crime. Al Capone? Mayors that bulldoze operating airports in the middle of the night because they want to build a park there?
Ever heard of the Paris suburbs? They are not a nice place.
You'll need to be more specific. They have really nice ones Levallois, Neuilly, Versailles. And not so nice ones: St. Denis, aubervillier. If you take the train from CDG to Paris than you only see the bad. The train from Orly to Paris has lots of nice areas. Anything by La Defense and Versailles has as sizable expat population, ie. $£€, so they are well off.
Just like New York's South Bronx doesn't surround the city. The bad suburbs don't surround Paris.
Yes, but it's not about the suburbs in this survey.
Paris suburbs are a lot more cheaper, and many of my friends flew Paris to get there.
Paris is appealing to the wealthy and old people,and because of them the costs of real estate are sky rocketting, a lot of young people cannot afford an appartment in Paris.
And 10 euros a beer when the average income is 1500 euros/months is ridiculous.
I want cheap beer !
I seem to remember that beer everywhere in France is comparatively expensive to Germany or the UK, for example. I also seem to remember that really good wine is surprisingly affordable - certainly in France I would always drink wine and not beer.
Let's take as a benchmark intentional homicide rates:
North America 6.5, West Europe 1.5.
Also, more murders per capita in US than Armenia or India.
Re:The Most Expensive Cities in the World
by whatusername on Tuesday March 16, 2010 @12:45AM
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Sydney (which was a penal colony) doesn't count as having a "criminal history"?
Re:The Most Expensive Cities in the World
by electromagnetic on Tuesday March 16, 2010 @06:20PM
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Yes, because the presence of a Mafia in an area is really the same as the presence of a prison. That's outstanding logic!
Re:The Most Expensive Cities in the World
by whatusername on Tuesday March 16, 2010 @10:38PM
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was, not has.
You do realise that Australia was originally founded as a penal colony. And that about 50% of the First Fleet (thus 50% of the entire colony/city) were convicts. Wiki tells me that about 165,000 convicts were sent here. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convicts_in_Australia
Every city on the list has a prison. Not many of them were originally intended to be a prison.