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A list of the World’s 30 Most Expensive Cities brought to us by the good folks at CNN.

Cup ‘o’ java in Tokyo, scenester? Cough up $4.15 American per tasty cup, Mr. I-Once-Showed-At-a-Gallery-in-Chinatown. What? You’re a little short? Head to Buenos Aires, Bangkok, or the islands of Thailand. You will get major bang for your buck.

THM knows from where he speaks having sipped coconut drinks on Koh Phangan for the last week of April earlier this year. The cost? Roughly $40 US per day living in an air-conditioned bungalow (5 times more expensive than regular bungalow) on the water and eating extremely well.


1 Tokyo, Japan
2 Osaka, Japan
3 London, United Kingdom
4 Moscow, Russia
5 Seoul, South Korea
6 Geneva, Switzerland
7 Zurich, Switzerland
8 Copenhagen, Denmark
9 Hong Kong, Hong Kong
10 Oslo, Norway
11 Milan, Italy
12 Paris, France
13 New York City, United States (What?? El Cheapo!)
13 Dublin, Ireland
15 St. Petersburg, Russia
16 Vienna, Austria
17 Rome, Italy
18 Stockholm, Sweden
19 Beijing, China
20 Sydney, Australia
20 Helsinki, Finland
22 Douala, Cameroon
22 Istanbul, Turkey
24 Amsterdam, Netherlands
24 Budapest, Hungary
26 Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire
27 Warsaw, Poland
28 Prague, Czech Republic
29 Taipei, Taiwan
30 Shanghai, China

Where's LA??

Numero 44. Not complaining about that traffic so much now, are you Beemer-boy?

Speaking of which, the jobless Hollywood Machine has to go pick up his black, shiny Beemer from the shop right now. Only took the bastards 4 weeks. Not bad, actually.