Posted on 06/26/2010 11:08:47 PM PDT by DemforBush
If you think $43 is too much to pay for lunch, you shouldn't live in Oslo. According to "ECA International", a global human resources company, that's how much an average lunch costs in Norway's capital. But Oslo is only the second-most expensive city on ECA's ranking of 399 global locations...
(Excerpt) Read more at finance.yahoo.com ...
All there ratings are seems ike a gypsy astrology for me.
I like best about a washing mashine:) I bet in both NYC and Moscow you can get different ones from $400 to $2000. So does lunch, etc.
I wish they had included more cities so that we could see where NYC ranked...
I knew a co-worker who said Norway had the best government in the world. I asked him why. He said because the government does so much for the people. I asked him if was then going to retire there. He said no, it’s too expensive.
Is the price of eggs and rice the deciding factor because if not then Oslo should be #1.
Also, what kind of rice are they buying? Five bucks for a kilo of rice in NY? I can get rice for about $1.50 a kilo just about anywhere?
New York is #29. There’s a link to view the full list at the bottom of the article.
I thought the same thing and it is interesting that food for the home i.e. eggs are three times as expensive in Europe as in Japan. If farmers did not get special deals I rice would be like in America about 3.00 and that would make their life a little easier...at home, which is 1200 sq ft or less.
I clicked on the link - it took me to he next city. I’m not going to click my way through a long list of cities just to see how they rank New York. Apparently, they’ve never heard of a spreadsheet - they could simply list the cities.
BTW, I didn’t note the word “tax” on any of their pages. I suspect that if you included the confiscatory tax rates in large US cities, the list would change a great deal.
$43! Big deal. I think I paid $275 for a lunch with my daughter ten years ago in 'Sconset. ('Sconset is really Siasconset which is a small town on the eastern end of Nantucket Island off Cape Cod, Massachusetts.) But it was worth every penny!
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*$43! Big deal. I think I paid $275 for a lunch with my daughter ten years ago in ‘Sconset. (’Sconset is really Siasconset which is a small town on the eastern end of Nantucket Island off Cape Cod, Massachusetts.) But it was worth every penny!*
Only took 11 posts before the obligatory personal story/non sequitur that has nothing to do with the original post showed up. Bravo, Sir.
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They could probably find a 1000 dollar lunch in most of these towns, which is the same as your comparing most likely a boutique lunch in a boutique town to the cities listed. What was the standard used in the study? I’m pretty sure it wasn’t whatever you and yours ate.
Conversely, I’m sure someone could point out that they had a 3 dollar lunch in NYC, which would be equally useless as your anecdote.
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