One of the biggest factors when it comes to calculating the cost of living in any given place is, of course, how much it costs to rent an apartment. Though high rent means a higher cost of living, some of the so-called most expensive cities in the world are actually still relatively livable because they compensate by paying workers higher salaries.
In other cases, rent isn’t actually as high as it is in say London or Paris, but because wages are generally lower it means that it’s comparatively harder to get by despite the availability of more affordable housing. While many of the cities on this list happen to be among the most expensive in general, they are more specifically the cities with the highest rent prices in the world.