A nice list when planning your vacation:
1. Moscow
2. London
3. Seoul
4. Tokyo
5. Hong Kong
6. Copenhagen
7. Geneva
8. Osaka
9. Zurich
10. Oslo
11. Milan
12. St Petersburg
13. Paris
14. Singapore
15. New York
Kuwait isn’t in the top 50. Actually the only country from the Gulf which is on the list is UAE and it takes two spots, 34 for Dubai and 45 for Abu Dhabi. Here is the top 50 list. [Link]
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i think we’re not on there because no one plans their vacations in kuwait.. except other Arabs.. who usually have friends here..
kuwaits not on the list cuz its not an expensive country.
Kuwait is not on the list because its so damn hard to get a visitor’s visa, rolling electricity blackouts start during the hottest months, not so friendly/welcoming staff in the airport, you want more!?
I wish we can do something about it.. I really do! I love Kuwait, but sadly this is the truth!
LOL ok most expensive cities.. my bad! I got carried away 😉
London ouch! can’t believe it’s more expensive than Hong Kong and Tokyo
Ansam ….
YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT ….
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Last year statistics (I heard on BBC-Arabic Radio) showed this:
1. Tokyo
2. Osaka
3. London
kuwait is not expensive, it is actually relatively cheap to all those countries in that list
why the fuck is russia so expensive?
I’ve been to Moscow in 2003, and it was really, really cheap. A hundred dollars could do SO MUCH MORE there than here.
Moe…I hope you arent talking about the russian sex scene. lol
Anyway, kuwait is relatively cheap. I’d be surprised if it ever did show up on the list for the 50 most expensive countries. But I hear the living costs are going up drastically. So..maybe in some time..it will be on that list. Surely when oil runs out. How else will they manage to maintain all that infastructure they are currently building in full swing.
Last year Kuwait was was the most expensive country in ME, came at the 8th place in worlds most expensive cities.
Russia is extremely expensive. I remember my dad buying a Snickers Bar for like 25 bucks there.
Wat’s the deal with Russia? I can’t believe that…
If it is so expensive, how can the Russkies live there? I mean apart from the Russian Mafia, they’re not exactly rolling in it (the money that is)!
Wow some of those cities are damn expensive!!! I didn’t even think Moscow was that expensive!
To give a sense of just what life costs in various cities, Mercer priced out the cost of a two-bedroom unfurnished apartment, a cup of coffee served, a fast food meal and an international paper.
In Moscow, the apartment will run you $3,000, the coffee $5.27, the paper $3.40, and the burger with fries $3.87.
By contrast, Buenos Aires for example, provides a better deal price-wise, to say nothing of warmer temperatures. You can nab the apartment for $999, the coffee for $1.47, the paper for $4.55 and the happy meal for $2.77.
Russia is a horrible place to live. I wonder why it is so expensive. Probably because all the poor people live outside of the city and all of the rich criminals live inside Moscow. Russia is an awful place though. It’s not free, Vladimir Putin runs all of the television stations now and arrest anyone who protests and they are severely beaten. Russia also spied on every country out there. I’m sick of Russians living on this earth because everything they do is evil. They are helping Iran build a nuclear powerplant and giving Iran missile defense systems and anti-aircraft systems. How can we call these people friends? If we gave Russias enemy a nuclear bomb or a nuclear plant which they were going to use to build a nuclear bomb, Russia would be VERY ANGRY! But yet it’s okay for Russia to do this to us? Russia is a joke. They complain about a missile shield which can’t be used to attack Russia in anyway, only to warn countries that Russia is launching nuclear missiles. But it’s okay for them to help Iran which is a CRAZY country filled with evil Islamists build a nuclear power station so they can build nuclear weapons also?
Russia should start making friends with people who aren’t evil and stop dealing with China and Iran and the middle-eastern death promoting countries. Islamic people love to committ suicide and take innocent people out with them in a huge explosion so why would you help them get close to building a nuclear weapon? THey actually have the balls to launch a nuclear weapon, unlike any other country except for Russia.
No one respects Russia and we will never respect you until you make your country free and stop killing journalists and people who oppose Vladimir “nutcase” Putin.
The world laughs at Russia because you have a GDP of 9000$ or less per person which is a JOKE. Canada has 40,000$ per person and America has even higher.
Russia is the only country in the G8 that makes less than 35,000$ GDP.
Russia does not belong in the G8 group of nations because Russia has a pathetic economy and is not a democracy of any form. Oh and you are EVIL people! You threaten to target nuclear weapons at Europe. No other country would say that. America would not threaten to target moscow with nuclear weapons. That is just INSANE and EVIL!
Brazil, Greece, Israel, Malaysia, and many other countries deserve to be in the G8 much more than Russia. Russia is a poor laughable country.
Until you change your leaders to someone who is not crazy and a former KGB agent psychopath madman then no one in the world will respect you or your pathetic attempts to scare the world into giving you things your way.
You know we can destroy you too, don’t forget it. You aren’t the boss of the world. You are just a pathetic little country that stole the nuclear weapons design from America/Canada/England. You stole your plane designs from America also and stole your tank designs from everyone else too. And you stole all the technology you have from other people too!
You are a country filled with nobodies and we dont care about any of you and we hope you go to hell for your helping Iran get close to building nuclear weapons.
A country like Iran which has some of the world biggest oil reserves does not need nuclear power, it can use the huge amount of fuels it has naturally. So explain why they need a nuclear plant and why you are helping them and giving them weapons also? You are helping them become a nuclear weapon producer so they can destroy Israel and the United States.
Too bad you won’t live to see that happen.
My suggestion is that you change your leaders to someone who like freedom and democracy/socialism/capitalism and you start working with the other countries in the world nicely and stop barking orders and demanding things from us because you have no political strength or money to bargain with.
It would be nice if you embraced freedom for all people in Russia and made it so Russia was a great leading country with at least 30,.000$ GDP instead of 9000$ or less.
Russia has alot of natural resources such as oil and diamonds and gold and silver and gemstones. You have natural gas and all sorts of good things you can make lots of money with.
The problem with you guys is you let these horrible politicians lead you and they just make themselves rich and steal from you and you smile and love the fact that they are stealing from you and taking away your rights and freedoms.
You love your leaders as long as they are evil and act tough in front of the world and threaten other countries with nuclear weapons. Yes you have to be strong right? Like a bear.
Well guess what? Bears are obese and stupid and they act before thinking, and they also eat much more than they can handle. Kind of like the country of Russia itself.
RUSSIA CAN BE GREAT IF YOU HELP CHANGE THE POLITICIANS AND MAKE IT FREE AND LET PEOPLE KNOW THEY DESERVE BETTER AND YOU MUST STOP BEING HOSTILE AND EVIL AGAINST OTHER COUNTRIES IN THE WORLD.
Good luck! I hope you change because Russia has not had any luck for the past 200 years or more. Soviet times were not good either. People were living on food rations and had even less freedom than now. And yet Russians look back on the soviet era with pride and happiness, even though they were getting fukked by their government and treated like garbage.
You have been treated poorly for so long, you actually believe it. Thats why you dont make Russia better and improve over time. You just get worse and worse. SOMETHING NEEDS TO CHANGE INSIDE RUSSIA!!!!