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Topic: World's Most Expensive Cities
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Michael Schaffer
"Where is the Boardwalk Hotel?"
Posts: 4143
From: Boston, MA
Registered: Apr 2002
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posted 06-21-2003 04:41 AM
Where are San Francisco and San Diego on that list? People here tell me all the time those were among the most expensive places in the US. Although the rent is quite high, I do not really find it too bad. Household articles and food and all the other small articles that you need seem to be a little more expensive than what I am used to from Germany. Electronics seem to be more or less the same price or sometimes even a little less.
It is very difficult to compare those prices directly anyway. You can compare articles of food, clothing etc directly, but how do you compare the rent? For instance, in Berlin I had a nice apartment (ca 700 sqft) which was a studio with one very large room (rather unusual in Berlin), and the rent was €440. Here my rent is $780 for an apartment of 710 sqft in a nice community. Actually, that is not very expensive in comparison to the rents here in general. At first sight it seems much more expensive. But then the apartments here have a complete kitchen - which is not the standard in Germany. They usually only have an oven and a sink, and you have to bring the rest yourself. It also has carpet and a walk-in closet (again not the standard in Germany), some of the lighting was installed and the whole place was basically ready for immediate move-in. Of course, when you bring your own stuff you get to keep it while what you pay with the rent is gone. But we also have a laundrette here, so I do not need to buy a washing machine either or even have to waste time to go to an outside laundrette. The costs for water, sewer, electricity etc. are about the same or maybe even a little less here. And then you have practically no cost for heating. So, what at first sight seems to be horribly expensive isn`t that bad after all if you analyse the costs in detail.
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