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dmbfan
Joined: 09 Mar 2006
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 Posted: Tue May 08, 2007 8:50 pm Post subject: Is this right....taken from www.aneki.com |
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-mail this to a friend: click here Most Expensive Countries to Live in
Rank Country
1 Japan
2 South Korea
3 Russia
4 Taiwan
5 Norway
6 Hong Kong
7 Switzerland
8 Denmark
9 Argentina
10 China
11 Finland
12 Cote d'Ivoire
13 United States
14 Sweden
15 Venezuela
16 United Kingdom
17 Singapore
18 Oman
19 Jordan
20 Kuwait |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Tue May 08, 2007 8:54 pm Post subject: |
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| I don't know how they're conducting that survey, but I've been to Norway and Sweden and Korea does't even come close. Norway and Sweden ten years ago were more expensive than Korea is today. |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Tue May 08, 2007 9:37 pm Post subject: |
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| If they didn't factor in rent costs, I'm sure Korea would be much lower down on the list. |
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ajgeddes
Joined: 28 Apr 2004
Location: Yongsan
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| Posted: Tue May 08, 2007 9:50 pm Post subject: |
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| What would make China so high? The fact that you are going to die of lung cancer by 50? |
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rawiri
Joined: 01 Jun 2003
Location: Lovely day for a fire drill.
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| Posted: Tue May 08, 2007 9:52 pm Post subject: |
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| Man...i can literally live of 30 000 won a week if i have to. |
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shifter2009
Joined: 03 Sep 2006
Location: wisconsin
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| Posted: Tue May 08, 2007 11:34 pm Post subject: |
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| No kidding, I see these stats and i wonder how they figure. 5 dollar pizza, Kimbap Changook is dirt cheap, my cell phone bill is under 20,000. Total bills for my apartment come out to like 150,000 a month with internet and cable. 2 dollar taxi rides, buck for the bus, I don't see it. Must be my smaller city. |
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poet13
Joined: 22 Jan 2006
Location: Just over there....throwing lemons.
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| Posted: Tue May 08, 2007 11:47 pm Post subject: |
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| I don't see Canada on that list, so I'm dismissing the list as incomplete research. |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Tue May 08, 2007 11:54 pm Post subject: |
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| poet13 wrote: |
| I don't see Canada on that list, so I'm dismissing the list as incomplete research. |
Yeah, that's an interesting comparison. I spent way, way more money having fun in Canada last summer than I do in Korea.
- restaurants: way more.
- drinking: way, way more, whether you stay home or go out.
- smokes: three to four times as much.
- supermarket food: about the same.
- driving: about the same.
- haircut: far more.
- EFL books: twice as much.
- souvenires: rip off in both places.
- public transportation: way the hell more IF even available.
- taxis: I didn't even want to find out.
- rent: W400,000 can get you a shoebox in either Seoul or Vancouver.
- basic utilities: more for cable and phones; better insulated homes cost a bit less to heat.
Simply put there's contest between Canada and Korea for who gets the most expensive prize. |
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n3ptne
Joined: 14 Sep 2005
Location: Poh*A*ng City
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| Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 3:56 am Post subject: |
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| If they didn't factor in rent costs, I'm sure Korea would be much lower down on the list. |
Where I live, not Seoul, but my US home wasn't New York, you can get a 27pyong apartment for 400,000 a month... in the US, you're looking at about 1.2. |
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ajgeddes
Joined: 28 Apr 2004
Location: Yongsan
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| Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 7:48 am Post subject: |
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| Yu_Bum_suk wrote: |
| poet13 wrote: |
| I don't see Canada on that list, so I'm dismissing the list as incomplete research. |
Yeah, that's an interesting comparison. I spent way, way more money having fun in Canada last summer than I do in Korea.
- restaurants: way more.
- drinking: way, way more, whether you stay home or go out.
- smokes: three to four times as much.
- supermarket food: about the same.
- driving: about the same.
- haircut: far more.
- EFL books: twice as much.
- souvenires: rip off in both places.
- public transportation: way the hell more IF even available.
- taxis: I didn't even want to find out.
- rent: W400,000 can get you a shoebox in either Seoul or Vancouver.
- basic utilities: more for cable and phones; better insulated homes cost a bit less to heat.
Simply put there's contest between Canada and Korea for who gets the most expensive prize. |
How was driving about the same? Gas prices are nearly double here.
At home under $1 a litre, here its over $1.80 CDN.
Drinking is actually cheaper at bars in my area back home, but maybe more in Toronto.
Restaurants aren't that much more at home. If you really want a decent meal here you are going to be paying close to 10,000 won here. You can get decent meals in restaurants at home for $12. The only thing that makes a difference is the tip.
Everything else I agree with.
Another thing you need to look at is Koreans make 60% of what Canadians make. |
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bgreenster
Joined: 06 Feb 2007
Location: too far from the beach
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| Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 8:14 am Post subject: |
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This looks a lot like that list made of the most expensive cities to live in- where Seoul moved up to #2, and Moscow was actually #1. I remember worrying about moving out here because of the list, but when I actually read carefully (after moving here and being pleasantly surprised by how cheap it is, relatively) it was really a list of the most expensive cities for foreigners to live in, or something along those lines.
Maybe this list is a similar variation? Overall, a lot of them make sense, but I would def consider countries like the US, Canada, the UK, Sweden, etc. to be higher than Korea. But, hey, I'm not an expert  |
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