Dhaka costliest city for foreigners in Asia
Dhaka has turned out to be the most expensive city in South Asia for foreign citizens and 98th expensive globally in a survey carried out by US-based research firm Mercer. No other South Asian city has ranked in the top-100 in the Mercer Cost of Living Survey-2022. Released on Wednesday, the survey ranked 227 cities on the basis of comparative costs of more than 200 goods and services, including housing, transportation, food, clothing, household goods, and entertainment. According to the survey, Dhaka ranked 98th out of 227 most expensive cities in the world this year, slipping 58 notches from the previous rank of 40th. From this point of view, the living cost of foreign citizens came down a bit here compared to the previous year. The government has no exact data of foreigners living in Dhaka. The number is presumed to be 100,000 t0 500,000. According to the Mercer survey, the top expensive cities for expatriates are Hong Kong, Zurich, Geneva, Basel, Bern, Tel Aviv, New York Cit...