Tel Aviv is the world’s most expensive city

Re:Tel Aviv is the world’s most expensive city by panda88888 on Friday December 03, 2021 @09:41PM (#29438193)

I was surprised that San Francisco was not in the top ten, then the article explains that the index tracks products and services which I presume excluding housing cost. However, I am still surprised Los Angeles ranks higher than SF.

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Re:Tel Aviv is the world’s most expensive city by dragonwriter on Saturday December 04, 2021 @12:32AM (#29438943)

> However, I am still surprised Los Angeles ranks higher than SF.

Its a ranking of 173 major world cities; by population, San Francisco is somewhere near 650 in the world; it probably isn't even considered.

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Re:Tel Aviv is the world’s most expensive city by wwtrv on Saturday December 04, 2021 @03:17AM (#29439528)

The population Tel Aviv is 0.46 million which is half of San Francisco’s (even if the rest of the Bay area is excluded)

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Re:Tel Aviv is the world’s most expensive city by BayAreaEscapee on Saturday December 04, 2021 @08:07AM (#29440587)

If you move your mouse cursor over on top of the graph on economist.com, you can see that there is a bubble representing SF.

Like the parent comment, I was also surprised that LA was considered more expensive than SF.

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Re:Tel Aviv is the world’s most expensive city by thecopy on Saturday December 04, 2021 @04:07AM (#29439675)

Zurich has ~440k and its in the list.

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Re:Tel Aviv is the world’s most expensive city by novok on Saturday December 04, 2021 @02:09AM (#29439305)

Many of these indexes use area cost / area income as the inaffordability measure.

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