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You also have to take into account things like quality of life in the city vs a long commute if living in the suburb.
by aioprisan 11y ago
You also have to take into account things like quality of life in the city vs a long commute if living in the suburb.
- sliverstorm 11y agoYou're not wrong, but tax is certainly one of the easier first steps as part of trying to compare salaries.
- Tloewald 11y agoRight, but easier doesn't mean useful. E.g. One of the easiest steps in comparing salaries across countries is exchange rate, but it's not nearly as useful as a list of local prices for commonly needed stuff. E.g. In Singapore when I last visited (quite a while back) car registration cost about $30,000 per year.
- eulji 11y agoRight. But a country as a whole is what I am interested in. I mean iphone costs about the same anywhere in the world ( okay it's sometimes more usually not less (Brazil?)) so there's that...
- sjwright 11y agoiPhone-like items are a very small part of anyone's annual budget. What matters are housing costs, transport costs, healthcare costs and quality of life. All of which are highly variable depending on location.
- totalrobe 11y agoThe iPhone itself may be a small part (depending on your budget) but wireless plan costs also vary widely. I know that UK/EU plans are substantially cheaper than the US where many pay $150+ per month for a couple lines.
- chatmasta 11y agoWireless prices in the USA are higher than any other country I've been to, developed or not. Nevermind the absurd contracts. In Taiwan, for example, I got a 3G phone plan for $40 month-to-month, unlimited data, and consistently ~20mbps download speeds. In developing countries like Thailand or Central America, I can get a 3G card for 60 days and 1-2GB for less than $10. Speeds obviously aren't as good as Taiwan, but the basic access to Internet is way cheaper.
- JayJee 11y agoLOL come to Canada. Our wireless prices are 4x worse than USA
- raimue 11y agoI don't think electronic gadgets are a good item for this comparison. You might want to take a look at the Big Mac Index, which tries to give some measurement of how much your money is worth in another currency or country.
- maccard 11y agoYou can't do that really. Taking the UK, the cost of living in London is absolutely incomparable to say, Sheffield.[0] [0]http://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?country1=United+Kingdom&country2=United+Kingdom&city1=Sheffield&city2=London&tracking=getDispatchComparison http://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?coun...
- tamana 11y agoAnd things like quality of life in the suburb vs the polluted air and noisy bright nights if living in the city.