調查：莫斯科當選“最貴”城市
Moscow ranks as world's priciest city
Moscow is the world's most expensive city
Moscow is the world's most expensive city for the second year in a row, thanks to an appreciating ruble and rising housing costs, a new survey reports.The cost of living in the Russian capital is nearly 35 percent higher than in New York, which served as the base city for the survey released Monday.
London, estimated at 26 percent more expensive than New York, climbed three spots to second place on a strengthening British pound and steep rental prices.
South Korea's Seoul ranked third, followed closely by Tokyo at No. 4.
The survey by Mercer Human Resource Consulting ranked 143 cities around the world, measuring the comparative cost of more than 200 areas such as housing, transportation and food. The findings are designed to help multinational employers determine compensation for their expatriate workers.
In Moscow, a luxury two-bedroom apartment will cost an expat $4,000 a month; a CD rings up at $24.83; one copy of an international daily newspaper is $6.30; and a fast-food hamburger meal totals $4.80.
A strengthening euro boosted 30 European cities to top spots on the 2007 list - Copenhagen, Geneva, Zurich and Oslo, respectively, placed among the top 10.
Eight Asian cities made the top 50, though Taipei, Taiwan, plunged 20 places to No. 48.
New York and Los Angeles were the only two North American cities to rank among the highest 50, though both fell in the rankings due to a depreciating U.S. dollar, Mercer reported.
The Big Apple dropped five places to No. 15, while Los Angeles fell to No. 42 from No. 29 in 2006.
Ranking as the least expensive city for the fifth year in a row was Paraguay's capital of Asuncion, where the cost of living is half that of New York, Mercer estimated.
據一項最新調查，由於盧布的不斷升值和住房成本的持續上漲，莫斯科連續第二年成爲世界上生活成本最高的城市。
該項於週一公佈的調查顯示，莫斯科的生活成本比“基準城市”紐約高近35%。
倫敦的生活成本比紐約高約26%，由於英鎊不斷升值及房租過高，倫敦連攀三個榜位，升至第二。
韓國的首爾名列第三，東京緊跟其後，位居第四。
美世人力資源諮詢公司的該項調查對全球143個城市的住房、交通和飲食等200多個領域的比較成本進行了測算，並據此對這些城市進行了排位。該調查的結果旨在幫助那些跨國公司的老闆們爲他們的駐外員工確定補貼金額。
在莫斯科，一套豪華兩居室的月租金爲4000美元、一張CD要24.83美元、一份國際性日報要6.3美元、一頓漢堡快餐需要花費4.8美元。
歐元的持續升值將歐洲30個城市送至高位，哥本哈根、日內瓦、蘇黎世和奧斯陸都躋身前十名。
亞洲有八個城市躋身前五十，其中臺北下滑20位，跌至第48名。
據美世諮詢公司報告，紐約和洛杉磯是北美躋身前50名的僅有的兩個城市，不過由於美元的貶值這兩個城市今年的排名有所下滑。
紐約下滑五個榜位，降至第15位；洛杉磯從去年的29位下降至第42位。
巴拉圭首都亞松森連續第五年被評爲生活成本最低的城市，據美世公司估算，這個城市的生活成本僅爲紐約的一半。
