Ira Glazer: http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13130-2243245,00.html
London has lost its status as Europe’s most expensive city in which to live, overtaken by Moscow, a global survey reveals today.
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No way. Moscow is a rich city, and rapidly getting richer, but a single person can live quite comfortably here on $1,000 a month. Every time I go west of Lithuania (which is rarely), my Moscow middle-class buying power drops through a hole.
I think if you looked at the criteria for rating "expensive" cities you would see costs cited for things like first-class restaurants, five-star hotels and so forth. That's usually what these reports cite. In short, Moscow is very expensive if one is trying to live like a rich person.
Clothes are more expensive here than in the US, anyway. Unless you're buying the cheap Chinese imports.
Nu, zayats, pogodi!
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