Re:The World's Most Expensive Cities 2010
by henrikschroder on Saturday June 26, 2010 @04:46PM
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Hah, that one is funny. The numbers for Stockholm look really weird. Groceries is at index 110, but rent at 27. This is true and a result of decades of political rent control, but what the numbers don't tell you is that it's impossible to actually get a decent apartment for rent. It's a completely dysfunctional market.
If they would have factored in the costs for buying an apartment or a house, it would look a lot more sane, and you would get numbers that are closer to what you would expect.
I can't even hover over the images/thumnails and get the name of the city! Even the URIs are numbers and not names, so I actually have to click through 50 pages!
EDIT:
Here y'all are: http://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/rankings.jsp