Living Comparison
Living comparison is interested in moving and want to know how costs in your new area compare to your current location. Do a cost of living comparison to find out. Cost of living is the cost of continuing the same standard of living over time. A living comparison is useful when considering a move for a job or retirement. You will also be better prepared to evaluate your job offers. Get your cost living comparison better with:
a. To get your living comparison you can go to an online cost of living calculator. Choose the state and city to living comparison which you will be moving. Then select the job or put in a salary. Print out the results of cost of living comparison.
b. Rank the most important factors to you of living comparison. Categories include overall, housing, utilities, transportation, food or groceries, health care and miscellaneous expenses.
c. Research your potential locations further of your living comparison activity. Get specific information on the neighborhood, schools, quality of life and the job that you will have.
d. The end of living comparison searching you have to write down your findings and compare the results.
Example for living comparison result:
According to the international cost of living comparison, Sydney, Australia is the 23rd most expensive city in the world for expatriates to live in.
The findings of the international cost of living comparison of 228 international locations, conducted by the international relocation calculator, shows that Sydney is most expensive for Personal Care and least expensive for Communication.
The international cost of living comparison uses the prices of goods and services that expatriates spend their salaries on in each location, and calculates cost of living indexes (COLI) for 13 different basket groups using New York as the base (i.e. New York is equal to 100).
The most expensive city in the world for expatriates is London with an overall COLI of 126.6. At the other end of the rankings, the least expensive city (again - for expatriates to live in) is Harare with an overall COLI of 16.4. This means that on average, goods and services that cost an expatriate US$100 in New York would cost US$126.6 in London, compared to just US$16.4 in Harare, and US101.73 in Sydney.
