Today I did a little research on cost of living in Eastern European cities on numbeo. I think the results are interesting enough to share them here, maybe to save others some work.
I took Budapest as a reference (I lived there for a couple of years) and compared mostly the other big cities, but a few smaller as well.
I list the difference in prices the same way numbeo does, but I neglected the decimals and just rounded the percentages, e.g.:
- Consumer Prices in Budapest are 6.72% higher than in Warsaw -> "7" in the spreadsheet,
- Consumer Prices Including Rent in Budapest are 3.95% lower than in Warsaw -> "-4" in the spreadsheet.
To make it simple: plus (green) is good (cheaper) and minus (red) is bad (more expensive).
I also included the "Local Purchase Power". So according to numbeo people in Budapest have a 28% lower purchase power than people in Warsaw but a 102% higher purchase power than people in Odesa.
I grouped the cities according to the criteria "member of EU", "aspiring member of EU" (Belgrade) and "rest", as well as population.
Of course, numbeo is not totally accurate, but I think it can give a pretty good indication of price differences.
I took Budapest as a reference (I lived there for a couple of years) and compared mostly the other big cities, but a few smaller as well.
I list the difference in prices the same way numbeo does, but I neglected the decimals and just rounded the percentages, e.g.:
- Consumer Prices in Budapest are 6.72% higher than in Warsaw -> "7" in the spreadsheet,
- Consumer Prices Including Rent in Budapest are 3.95% lower than in Warsaw -> "-4" in the spreadsheet.
To make it simple: plus (green) is good (cheaper) and minus (red) is bad (more expensive).
I also included the "Local Purchase Power". So according to numbeo people in Budapest have a 28% lower purchase power than people in Warsaw but a 102% higher purchase power than people in Odesa.
I grouped the cities according to the criteria "member of EU", "aspiring member of EU" (Belgrade) and "rest", as well as population.
Of course, numbeo is not totally accurate, but I think it can give a pretty good indication of price differences.