Oslo is Europe's most expensive and the world's 4th most expensive city. Oslo was the most expensive location in Europe back in 2014, however lower global oil prices and subsequent weaker oil sector contributed to Oslo becoming slightly cheaper in global terms between 2014 and 2017.
Zurich is the 2nd most expensive expat city in Europe and the 5th most expensive city in the world for expatriates as at October 2018. This is due primarily to the strong Swiss Franc as well as due to high rentals and institutionalized high wages.
An interesting observation is that the most expensive cities in Europe are dominated by Non-Euro countries.
Xpatulator.com has been created to calculate expatriate pay using online calculators and an extensive database of cost of living and hardship indexes, for 780 international locations. The database is updated quarterly. Subscribers use this information to ensure expatriate salary spending power is maintained when on an international assignment. Salary spending power is affected by cost of living, hardship and exchange rate differences between the home and host location.
Lodz in Poland is the cheapest city for expatriates in Europe. Lodz is particularly cheap for alcohol, communication, groceries, healthcare, and housing.
For more, read a free cost of living review for any of the following European locations as at October 2018:
- Aberdeen
- Adana
- Amsterdam
- Andorra la Vella
- Ankara
- Athens
- Baku
- Barcelona
- Belfast
- Belgrade
- Berlin
- Birmingham
- Bonn
- Bordeaux
- Bradford
- Bratislava
- Bristol
- Brussels
- Bucharest
- Budapest
- Bursa
- Cardiff
- Chisinau
- Cologne
- Copenhagen
- Coventary
- Derby
- Douglas
- Dublin
- Edinburgh
- Frankfurt
- Geneva
- Genoa
- Gibraltar
- Glasgow
- Guildford
- Hamburg
- Helsinki
- Isle of Wight
- Istanbul
- Izmir
- Kaliningrad
- Kazan
- Kiev
- Kingston upon Hull
- Konya
- Krakow
- Leeds
- Leicester
- Lille
- Lisbon
- Liverpool
- Ljubljana
- Lodz
- London
- Luton
- Luxembourg
- Lyon
- Madrid
- Manchester
- Marseille
- Mersin
- Milan
- Milton Keynes
- Minsk
- Monaco
- Moscow
- Munich
- Nantes
- Naples
- Newcastle upon Tyne
- Nice
- Nicosia
- Nizhny Novgorod
- Northampton
- Nottingham
- Novosibirsk
- Nuuk
- Omsk
- Oslo
- Palermo
- Paris
- Plymouth
- Podgorica
- Portsmouth
- Prague
- Preston
- Pristina
- Reading
- Reykjavik
- Riga
- Rome
- Rotterdam
- Saint Helier
- Samara
- San Marino
- Sarajevo
- Sheffield
- Skopje
- Sofia
- Southampton
- St Peter Port
- St. Petersburg
- Stockholm
- Stoke-on-Trent
- Stuttgart
- Tallinn
- Tbilisi
- The Vatican City
- Thessaloniki
- Tirana
- Toulouse
- Turin
- Vaduz
- Valencia
- Velletta
- Vienna
- Vilnius
- Vladivostok
- Warsaw
- Wolverhampton
- Yekaterinburg
- Yerevan
- Zagreb
- Zurich
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