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Feeling the pinch living in Tokyo? Spare a thought for ex-pats living in ... Moscow?? Japan Today reports the weakened US dollar is having an interesting effect on cost of living comparisons... $10.40US for a cup of coffee (including service.)
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So what's the entry Eikaiwa salary in Tokyo now? I've always thought it was 250,000 yen across the country, but do Tokyo teachers get a special bonus for living in the world's second most expensive city?
A friend of mine working in Eikaiwa said he got an extra ￥12,000/month for living in Tokyo.
But, overall, these kinds of rankings are generally crap and undoubtedly fail to take into account all aspects of daily living, comparisons of rents from one neighborhood to the next, blah, blah... When they take an average value of something for one of these BS surveys, they probably take the middle of a given range of values. For example: if Tokyo apartment rents range from ￥40,000/month to ￥500,000/month then the middle of the range is ￥270,000/month. But how many people's rents actually fall anywhere near the middle of the range? If 70% of the rents were closer to the bottom end of the range than the top, we'd have a false representation of the average rent.
These surveys are likely done without much attention given to proper statistical analysis so they don't deserve much attention from us.
hehe while I am less cynical about the trained statisticians who do these things as the purpose of their life, I guess my quiet giggle was that the whole thing is based on New York costs and then assessed from there so when the economy of the "centre of the world" goes bad you get some interesting statistical results! I think the biggest thing not taken into account by this survey is that not all ex-pats are going to be coming from the States hehe!