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butthurt [soylentnews.org] writes:

The Economist Intelligence Unit [wikipedia.org] (under the same ownership as The Economist) released its semiannual report, "The Worldwide Cost of Living [eiu.com]." While the report itself is sold, its contents were written about in various media:

• CNBC [cnbc.com]
• Business Insider [businessinsider.com] (multi-page)
• CNN [cnn.com]
• WTKR-TV [wtkr.com]
• Metro.co.uk [metro.co.uk]
• The Telegraph [telegraph.co.uk]
• Fortune [fortune.com]
• International Business Times [ibtimes.com]
• Straits Times [straitstimes.com]
• BBC News [bbc.com]
• mothership.sg [mothership.sg] (non-Cloudflare copy [archive.is])
• WCTI-TV [wcti12.com] (multi-page)
• theCHIVE [thechive.com]

Among the ranks of the most expensive cities, Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles and New York rose, while Paris and Oslo fell. Some of the changes were attributed to a decrease in the value of the euro, and an increase in the value of the U.S. dollar. While the cost of living in Singapore had declined by 10% in a year, it remained the most expensive city overall, and the most expensive place in which to own a car.

The least expensive were Lusaka [wikipedia.org], Karachi, Bengaluru (Bangalore), Mumbai, Chennai, New Delhi, and Tehran.

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