The World's Most Expensive Cities 2010

by Venessa Wong
Saturday, June 26, 2010

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For Americans overseas, exchange rates and cost-of-living adjustments can make living overseas more expensive than back home.
New York ranks only No. 29

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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. And while the price of an average lunch in Tokyo is a comparatively modest $17.86, other costs, such as a $22 movie ticket and an $8.47 kilo of rice, earn it the dubious honor as the world's most expensive city.