What is the Cheapest Capital City in Europe?

Europe, on the whole, is a very expensive place to stay. I should know,
living in the UK. London prices for nearly everything are extortionate.
What, in the opinion of others, is the cheapest Capital City in Europe, both
to stay and as far as the cost of living is concerned. Are there any
websites that give comparasons.

MC

EU or non-EU? West or East?
Tirana has to be the cheapest. But its in Albania
Cheapest capital worth visiting, pick any capital of any EU accession country.

"MC" wrote in message ...
Europe, on the whole, is a very expensive place to stay. I should know,
living in the UK. London prices for nearly everything are extortionate.
What, in the opinion of others, is the cheapest Capital City in Europe, both
to stay and as far as the cost of living is concerned. Are there any
websites that give comparasons.

MC

On Sun, 8 Feb 2004 15:56:03 -0000, "MC"
wrote:

Europe, on the whole, is a very expensive place to stay. I should know,
living in the UK. London prices for nearly everything are extortionate.
What, in the opinion of others, is the cheapest Capital City in Europe, both
to stay and as far as the cost of living is concerned. Are there any
websites that give comparasons.

Mercer Human Resource Consulting produces an annual cost of living
comparison table. Tourists aren't necessarily subject to the same
costs as local residents, so the comparatives may not be 100% valid,
but it should give an idea.

Below is a list of European cities and how they rank worldwide (as of
2003). I'm not sure how well the table wil work in different
newsreaders, but the first number is the 2003 worldwide ranking, the
second is the comparative for 2002. The numbers after the city name
are an index based around New York as being 100.0, with the fourth
being a comparative for that for 2002.

So, to take the first as an example, Moscow is the second most
expensive city in the world (behind Tokyo), and was the previous year
(although that time it was behind Hong Kong), is 14.5% more expensive
than New York, and was 20% more expensive than New York the previous
year.

Looks like the cheapest capital city in Europe is Bucharest, which
ranks 122 out of the 144 ranked cities worldwide

Brian

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European Cities Cost of Living Survey 2003

2 (2) Moscow 114.5 (120.0)
6 (28) Geneva 101.8 (80.8)
7 (10) London 101.3 (91.0)
9 (32) Zurich 100.3 (79.8)
12 (8) St Petersburg 97.3 (98.6)
13 (40) Oslo 92.7 (77.1)
15 (62) Copenhagen 89.4 (69.3)
17 (63) Milan 87.2 (69.1)
21 (73) Dublin 86.0 (67.5)
23 (74) Paris 84.3 (66.8)
24 (17) Kiev 84.2 (85.9)
27 (22) Riga 83.7 (83.1)
34 (77) Vienna 82.4 (66.0)
36 (79) Helsinki 80.9 (65.5)
37 (75) Budapest 80.2 (66.7)
41 (99) Rome 79.0 (61.0)
42 (44) Istanbul 78.8 (76.5)
48 (94) Stockholm 78.2 (62.3)
49 (75) Prague 78.1 (66.7)
52 (102) Amsterdam 76.8 (60.0)
54 (47) Warsaw 76.3 (74.6)
56 (88) Bratislava 75.7 (63.5)
58 (104) Berlin 75.3 (59.7)
60 (80) Tallinn 75.0 (65.5)
62 (108) Munich 74.4 (58.9)
63 (101) Dusseldorf 74.2 (60.2)
65 (109) Frankfurt 74.1 (58.6)
66 (107) Luxembourg 74.0 (59.0)
68 (112) Brussels 73.6 (58.1)
71 (111) Athens 72.9 (58.4)
74 (80) Glasgow 72.3 (65.0)
75 (97) Zagreb 71.8 (61.8)
76 (89) Birmingham 71.7 (63.1)
81 (115) Barcelona 71.1 (56.8)
83 (92) Sofia 70.9 (62.6)
83 (118) Hamburg 70.9 (55.9)
85 (86) Vilinus 70.5 (63.8)
86 (117) Madrid 70.4 (56.4)
89 (123) Lyon 68.6 (54.5)
94 (126) Lisbon 67.6 (53.3)
100 (125) Ljubljana 66.5 (53.4)
106 (132) Leipzig 63.5 (51.2)
106 (131) Limassol 63.5 (51.3)
122 (114) Bucharest 59.0 (56.9)

Europe, on the whole, is a very expensive place to stay. I should know,
living in the UK. London prices for nearly everything are extortionate.
What, in the opinion of others, is the cheapest Capital City in Europe,
both
to stay and as far as the cost of living is concerned. Are there any
websites that give comparasons.

Do you mean western Europe? Of all the places I have visited, Lisbon is
probably the cheapest capital city..

Wolfgang Schwanke wrote:
bigbrian wrote:
Mercer Human Resource Consulting produces an annual cost of living
comparison table. Tourists aren't necessarily subject to the same
costs as local residents, so the comparatives may not be 100% valid,
but it should give an idea.

Can you cite how the table was calculated? What "shopping basket" did
they base it on? London and Zürich up the list seems plausible, but Berlin
more expensive than Munich or Düsseldorf? Doesn't compute from where I'm
standing.

Likewise I found it pretty weird that Riga was "more expensive" than Vienna,
Helsinki (!!!!), and Rome.

Riga's the kind of place where you can sit down and have a meal for $2.

miguel
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Moscow is incredibly expensive for your average Russian. Even for westerners
its expensive.

"Wolfgang Schwanke" wrote in message ...
bigbrian wrote in
:

Mercer Human Resource Consulting produces an annual cost of living
comparison table. Tourists aren't necessarily subject to the same
costs as local residents, so the comparatives may not be 100% valid,
but it should give an idea.

Can you cite how the table was calculated? What "shopping basket" did
they base it on? London and Zürich up the list seems plausible, but Berlin
more expensive than Munich or Düsseldorf? Doesn't compute from where I'm
standing. How did Moscow get up there, what's specifically expensive there?

Regards

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Libyen und Hawaii

"Miguel Cruz" wrote in message
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Likewise I found it pretty weird that Riga was "more expensive" than
Vienna,
Helsinki (!!!!), and Rome.

Riga's the kind of place where you can sit down and have a meal for $2.

Riga isn't essentially cheaper than these other cities. For instance
shopping is considered everything but a bargain.

Maybe Tirana or Minsk. But why would someone live there?

You should focus on a country and find a cheap city to live there
instead of a capital.

"MC" wrote in message ...
Europe, on the whole, is a very expensive place to stay. I should know,
living in the UK. London prices for nearly everything are extortionate.
What, in the opinion of others, is the cheapest Capital City in Europe, both
to stay and as far as the cost of living is concerned. Are there any
websites that give comparasons.

MC

"laurent" wrote in message
om...
Maybe Tirana or Minsk. But why would someone live there?

You should focus on a country and find a cheap city to live there
instead of a capital.


I used Caital City as a basis for my query as it is the most likely place
tourist to that country would visit.

MC

"freeda" wrote in message
...
Europe, on the whole, is a very expensive place to stay. I should know,
living in the UK. London prices for nearly everything are extortionate.
What, in the opinion of others, is the cheapest Capital City in Europe,
both
to stay and as far as the cost of living is concerned. Are there any
websites that give comparasons.

Do you mean western Europe? Of all the places I have visited, Lisbon is
probably the cheapest capital city..



Any country in Europe a tourist may want to visit, be it East or West.
There are countries in Europe that are not safe or desirable.

MC