Tokyo (Japan) is the most expensive city in the world for expats, followed by Luanda (Angola), Osaka (Japan), Moscow (Russia) and Geneva (Switzerland), shows Mercer’s 2012 Cost of Living survey.
Karachi (Pakistan) is the world’s least expensive city for expatriates.
According to the survey, living costs in capital cities in Central and Eastern Europe, including Bucharest, decreased in 2012, due to the devaluation of national currencies in the region. Warsaw dropped 51 sports from 102 in 2011 to 153 this year, Prague from 47 to 69, Bratislava from 57 to 79, Budapest from 113 to 142, Sofia from 169 to 181 and Belgrade from 189 to 197.
The survey includes 214 cities on five continents.