Tokyo Return Become the World's Most Expensive Cities

Mercer conducted a survey every year the most expensive cities for expatriates are aimed at assisting companies in determining the amount of compensation for professional employees. In the survey, research firm that stood since 1975 that compared the 200 items of expenditure at 214 cities in the world with reference to the cost of living New York City, United States (U.S.). The factors are calculated including rent, food prices, and transportation.

This year the city of Tokyo to shift the position of Luanda, the capital of Angola, which topped the previous year as the most expensive cities in the world. In the third to fifth most expensive city is Osaka, Moscow, and Geneva. BeritaAFPmelaporkan office, interesting facts from this year's survey is the decline in Mercer ranked cities in Europe that have traditionally dominated the top 10.

The cause, according to Mercer, is a debt crisis that hit the euro zone and the surrounding areas. For example, Paris in 2012, this fell to 37 from earlier in the 10th position. In addition, the city of Rome also slipped to 42, compared to last year at the 8th position. While the Greek capital, Athens, now ranked 77th, from the previous sequence-24. Another famous city is experiencing a drastic decline is London. The British capital fell from position 18 to number 25.

Survey research firm Mercer released yesterday said the Japanese capital's beating other major cities in the world, including Europe's crisis.

In the survey, Mercer also noted the cheapest city for expatriates living namely Karachi, Pakistan. According to the agency, the cost of living in Karachi even three times more expensive than Tokyo. Meanwhile, Jakarta was ranked the 61 most expensive cities in the world, up six stairs over the previous year.

"There are surprises in which there is a big leap experienced Adelaide, Australia, which rose 19 places to order from the previous 27 to No. 46 in the list of cities termahal.Kenaikan rise was fueled Australian dollar in the last year," Mercer said in his official website yesterday.

In addition, a huge leap in the two cities also experienced the Auckland New Zealand (56) and Wellington (74) is up 62 ranks from the previous year. According to Nathalie Constantin-Métral, Principal Mercer, skyrocketing number two city in New Zealand was due to rising accommodation costs and strong demand for New Zealand dollars. "In the two cities is very high demand for accommodation, while the supply is limited," he said.