Cost of Living Index by Country 2024 – Numbeo
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Re: Cost of Living Index by Country 2024 – Numbeo
#2IMO depending on what question you're looking to answer using this page, typically some variant of "how expensive is my country relative to others", it would probably be useful to check out the purchasing power adjusted index (also present on the page)
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#3Japan offers insane value right now for anyone who wants to spend some months abroad.
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#4Japan offers insane value right now for anyone who wants to spend some months abroad.
Why is that? What’s been happening on the ground?
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#5Japan offers insane value right now for anyone who wants to spend some months abroad.
Why is that? What’s been happening on the ground?
Japan has always been a value. I don't understand why folks think it is expensive. Food is cheap, accommodations aren't expensive, transportation is affordable. The most expensive thing is airfare from the USA.
I believe that they never fully recovered after Covid and tourism never bounced back. The YEN has also taken a beating so you can get more for your USD.
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#7Eastern Europe is where it is at. Ukraine is super cheap and a really beautiful place, requires a little work to get there but not to bad. Hotels are cheap and really good food and just awesome. Planning to go again this summer.
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#8This anecdotally back ups what I was seeing when I visited the US.
Groceries and food (in general) was surprisingly more expensive in New Hampshire and Vermont than Calgary where I live (which is not a low COL area in Canada). I cannot understand how American fruit costs more in the US than they did back home (when including the exchange rate). I was not visiting a premium grocery store (it was a Price Chopper near a Tesla Charger near a small town in NH.)
This generally surprised me because the Canadian "online left" is organizing protests about the cost of food, while I don't see anything similar in the US.
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#9The relative ranking of the US has changed drastically within the past decade. I wonder why. It seems like many factors that we blame for rising costs - inflation, supply-chain issues - would affect other countries as well.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why is that? What’s been happening on the ground?
Japan has always been a value. I don't understand why folks think it is expensive. Food is cheap, accommodations aren't expensive, transportation is affordable. The most expensive thing is airfare from the USA. I believe that they never fully recovered after Covid and tourism never bounced back. The YEN has also taken a beating so you can get more for your USD.
Japan was seen as expensive when I first moved there; my rent there was certainly higher than it would have been in Canada at the time (Circa 2008).
Also, it's hard to directly compare stuff on shelves to what we have here. For example, Japanese peaches are much more expensive than Ontario peaches - but they are also incomparably better. However, if you only look at the price on the label, you would be rightfully shocked at the price difference.