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geno said:anyone surprised by this denotion?
Maciamo said:I just can't believe that Tokyo even ranks in the top 20 most expensive cities worldwide. With the strong euro, accommodation, food and transportation priced are all lower in Japan than in most of North-Western Europe.
Frank D. White said:Washington, D.C. was very expensive! A meal for 2 was over $40 everwhere but McDonalds and Subway. When I went to the resturant with Arrowyn, 3 sandwichs and 3 sodas were over $50.
Maciamo said:I just can't believe that Tokyo even ranks in the top 20 most expensive cities worldwide.
GaijinPunch said:They usually take into account average salary when coming up w/ these statistics. Considering most Japanese between ages 22 and 26 make on average about 2.5 million yen a year, maybe 3 after bonus (this is for full-time employees mind you), that makes it a damn expensive city.
Maciamo said:In Tokyo, an typical meal cost between 4 and 9 US$ (2.5 to 7.5 euro), be it Japanese, Italian, Chinese or whatever.
Tokyo is not the most expensive city but the most expensive for expats,
GaijinPunch said:The expats would indeed blow it. There are thousands of them that not only make a salary of well over 10 million yen a year (or 50 mil for that matter) but have company housing that costs 1 million a month.
That would blow the curve.