{"id":16479,"date":"2019-04-05T14:03:24","date_gmt":"2019-04-05T14:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ceo-na.com\/?p=16479"},"modified":"2019-04-05T20:05:50","modified_gmt":"2019-04-05T20:05:50","slug":"singapore-remains-worlds-expensive-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/ceo-life\/travel\/singapore-remains-worlds-expensive-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Singapore: The world\u2019s most expensive city"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paris scales while Japan cities fall in the 2018 Worldwide Cost of Living Survey.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The title for being the world\u2019s most expensive city is fought between Asia and Europe.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_16482\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ceo-na.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Captura-de-pantalla-2018-04-26-a-las-15.33.29-e1524774869192.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16482\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16482\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ceo-na.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Captura-de-pantalla-2018-04-26-a-las-15.33.29-e1524774869192-300x120.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"120\" srcset=\"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Captura-de-pantalla-2018-04-26-a-las-15.33.29-e1524774869192-300x120.png 300w, http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Captura-de-pantalla-2018-04-26-a-las-15.33.29-e1524774869192-500x201.png 500w, http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Captura-de-pantalla-2018-04-26-a-las-15.33.29-e1524774869192-580x233.png 580w, http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Captura-de-pantalla-2018-04-26-a-las-15.33.29-e1524774869192.png 588w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-16482\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">With the dollar weakening against other currencies, no North American city ranks among the ten<br \/>most expensive cities.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Findings in <a href=\"http:\/\/pages.eiu.com\/rs\/753-RIQ-438\/images\/WCOL_2018_Free_report.pdf?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWXpVd09UY3lObVF4T0RabSIsInQiOiJQUkRNc3R0SUFGcGhPNXlMY0J3OUJhZGlCZjMxTjNYS3Y5OHMwUWMxcXZacWRaR01Xd0oweGFmd1BOODB0OVNqUlB2bENBUVQxWFc3WEp4QkIwSCsyZmZJNG5SS1NscHhaMG8yZHc5NkNVZ2VGU2Zad0MzNFA1d0xneGN4ZzJTbiJ9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the latest Worldwide Cost of Living Survey<\/a>, elaborated by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eiu.com\/home.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU)<\/a>, showed Paris took a big leap in the list while Singapore remained number one for the fifth consecutive year.<\/p>\n<p>Tokyo and Osaka, both Japanese cities, fell out of the top-ten due to low inflation. Tokyo, the 2013 most expensive city, has fallen 12 spots in the last 12 months; Seoul, on the other half, South Korea\u00b4s most popular metropoli, moved from 21<sup>st<\/sup> to the top-five in ten years.<\/p>\n<p>Tel Aviv sits at number nine, as transport, alcohol and other specific costs boomed the regions\u2019 cost of living. It is the only Middle Eastern representative in the list.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>The weakening dollar hits U.S. cities<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The weakening U.S. dollar has moved New York four places down to the 13<sup>th<\/sup> spot, as domestic help and utility prices have peaked, elevating the monthly cost for a single person to 1,232 USD, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.numbeo.com\/cost-of-living\/in\/New-York\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to Numbeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/why-the-dollar-has-been-expectations-by-weakening-2018-03-17\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">According to Market Watch<\/a>, the best explanation for dollar weakness is that Trump has failed to deliver what he promised.<\/p>\n<p>Another\u00a0explanation is that investors expected the real exchange rate to rise through inflation rather than currency appreciation.\u00a0Uncertainty is the order of the day, every day.<\/p>\n<p>As for western Europe, <a href=\"http:\/\/pages.eiu.com\/rs\/753-RIQ-438\/images\/WCOL_2018_Free_report.pdf?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWXpVd09UY3lObVF4T0RabSIsInQiOiJQUkRNc3R0SUFGcGhPNXlMY0J3OUJhZGlCZjMxTjNYS3Y5OHMwUWMxcXZacWRaR01Xd0oweGFmd1BOODB0OVNqUlB2bENBUVQxWFc3WEp4QkIwSCsyZmZJNG5SS1NscHhaMG8yZHc5NkNVZ2VGU2Zad0MzNFA1d0xneGN4ZzJTbiJ9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to the EIU report<\/a>, it is the non-euro area cities that remain the most expensive, as Zurich (2nd), Oslo (5th), Geneva (6th) and Copenhagen (8th) are among the ten priciest. West European cities account for three of the five most expensive cities and for one-half of the top-ten, while Asia brings four candidates to the list.<\/p>\n<p>The global cost of living has risen to 74%, up slightly from 73% last year. This remains significantly lower than five years ago, when the average cost of living index across the cities surveyed was 85.5%.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ceo-na.com\/ceo-life\/travel\/2017s-cost-living\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here<\/a> to see the findings of the 2017 report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paris scales while Japan cities fall in the 2018 Worldwide  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":16483,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1069,49],"tags":[99,1385,1010,693,695,696],"class_list":["post-16479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editors-choice","category-travel","tag-ceo","tag-ceo-northam","tag-city","tag-cost","tag-the-economist","tag-worldwide-cost-of-living-survey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16479"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19455,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16479\/revisions\/19455"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}