Moscow (Russia) The most expensive city of the World.	Zurick (Switzerland) The city with major quality of life.	Vancouver (Canada) The 3rd city with major quality of life.

   Every year the counsel Mercer Human Resource Consulting prepares to list of the most expensive cities of the world. I have chooses products and basic services and with them it realizes to prices study in all the cities. The most expensive city of the world grasp it is ready it is Moscow. This will be his second consecutive year that reaches the first position. The city that occupies the second pleases is London. It you have raised three positions from 2006. Is is followed by the cities of Seoul, Tokyo and Hong Kong in the third, fourth and fifth position respectively.

   The most expensive Spanish city is Madrid that occupies the position 26 in this ranking and is is followed by Barcelona that occupies the position 31. In this marries we 53 observe an important change since in 2006 Madrid was occupying the position and Barcelona 56. In 2005 if that were between the 50 first ones; Madrid in the position 46 and Barcelona in 43 and gesture in this year, 2005 Barcelona was ahead of Madrid. But in 2006 they went out, they were not between the 50 first ones due to the depreciation that suffered the euro, but now in 2007 they have entered again the list and of an important form.

   The continent with the biggest number of cities in positions emphasized in the ranking is Europe, since it is provided with 30 positions of the 50 first ones of the list. Percentage that contrasts extensively with the 5 of Africa that go so far expert to be only between the most expensive 50. In Asia 8. Belonging to Middle East 4. Two Americans (New York and Los Angeles). Between the 50 first ones there is none belonging to Canada, not of Latin America. The only representative of Australia is Sydney.

   But we must know to few information really interesting, the fact that to city should be expensive it does not determine that the quality of life in her is also Superior. In this sense Mercer prepares another type of ranking, the related one to the quality of life.

   For the making of the list of the cities with major quality of life, Mercer studies 215 cities based on 39 important considered criteria expert regards the quality of life. These 39 criteria include all kinds factors: social, economic, environmental, political, related safely, education, health, transport, recreational you please (restaurants, movies, theaters, sports), consumer goods, housing, native ambience...

   This way the city with better quality of life, that is to say the one that heads the list is Zurick while in the list of the most expensive cities 9 occupies the position. Vancouver, the biggest third city of Canada after Toronto and Montreal occupies the third position in the list of the cities of better quality of life and nevertheless it is not between the 50 most expensive cities. This significant fact also 4 you reside cities of Canada fulfill it, specifically in addition to with the third position Vancouver, Toronto with 15, Otawa with 18, Montreal with 22 and Galgary with 24, and none of them, like none of Canada, they appear in the list of the most expensive cities of the world and nevertheless the plow in the ranking of 50 cities with major quality of life.

    In another end we plows to Moscow, being the city that heads the list of the most expensive cities, but that does not even meet between 50 cities better quality of life. 

   Expert for Spain, the cities with major quality of life plows Barcelona and Madrid. In this marries, if that overcomes Barcelona to Madrid, although only for to position, occupying the squares 44 and 45 respectively.

   Here you have the direct linkage to observe that you I plowed ready.

List of the most expensive cities.

List of the cities with major quality of life.