>But that's also probably why the rent in Paris or Berlin is less than the rent in New York or San Francisco. Rent price in absolute terms is meaningless. You

>But that's also probably why the rent in Paris or Berlin is less than the rent in New York or San Francisco. Rent price in absolute terms is meaningless. You should look relative as in at the local rent/income ratios. Parisians and Berliners do pay less rent than New Yorkers but they earn way less too. Also poor and dirty Berlin is not comparable to NY, SF or even Paris, even though some techies make good money there.