东京成外国打工仔生活成本最高城市
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Tokyo has become the world's most expensive city for foreign staff to live in, according to research, overtaking the Angolan capital Luanda.

调查显示,东京取代安哥拉首都罗安达,成为世界上外国职员居住成本最贵的城市。

The yen's rise against the dollar pushed up the cost of living for staff and firms paid in other currencies.

The research, carried out by the consultancy Mercer, showed that Paris, Rome and Amsterdam had all slid down the rankings as a weaker euro reduced costs for overseas firms.

London ranked 25, down seven places.

Eurozone costs fall

Accommodation remains1 the biggest cost for overseas staff, accounting2 for 25% of spending, according to the Mercer research, which looked at the cost of living in 214 cities. That is followed by transport and utility bills.

Falling incomes and rising unemployment due to recession in most eurozone countries have depressed3 prices.

In Paris, the rent on an unfurnished, two-bedroom luxury property fell 3% to $3,041 (£1,964), according to Mercer. Rental4 costs in Rome, Berlin and Madrid were also down.

But, perhaps the biggest impact on prices has been the exchange rate. The euro has fallen 16% since its peak in May. That translates into a 16% discount for staff and companies operating in the eurozone.

Rising Asian costs

In comparison, the relative boom in many Asia-Pacific economies has pushed up bills for expats(亡命国外者) based in the region.

In Shanghai, spending on accommodation has risen 73%. Rents in the world's most expensive property market, Hong Kong, rose 23% to $7,039 for a two-bedroom apartment. Rents in Beijing were up 15%.

Mercer based its findings on prices gathered between March 2011 and March 2012.

During that time, strong swings on the currency markets have been bad news for overseas companies operating in Asia, especially those who receive most of their income in euros.

European firms would have faced rises of up to 15% in Australia and 8% in Japan purely5 on the basis of exchange rate movements.



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1 remains 1kMzTy     
n.剩余物,残留物;遗体,遗迹
参考例句:
  • He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
  • The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。
2 accounting nzSzsY     
n.会计,会计学,借贷对照表
参考例句:
  • A job fell vacant in the accounting department.财会部出现了一个空缺。
  • There's an accounting error in this entry.这笔账目里有差错。
3 depressed xu8zp9     
adj.沮丧的,抑郁的,不景气的,萧条的
参考例句:
  • When he was depressed,he felt utterly divorced from reality.他心情沮丧时就感到完全脱离了现实。
  • His mother was depressed by the sad news.这个坏消息使他的母亲意志消沉。
4 rental cBezh     
n.租赁,出租,出租业
参考例句:
  • The yearly rental of her house is 2400 yuan.她这房子年租金是2400元。
  • We can organise car rental from Chicago O'Hare Airport.我们可以安排提供从芝加哥奥黑尔机场出发的租车服务。
5 purely 8Sqxf     
adv.纯粹地,完全地
参考例句:
  • I helped him purely and simply out of friendship.我帮他纯粹是出于友情。
  • This disproves the theory that children are purely imitative.这证明认为儿童只会单纯地模仿的理论是站不住脚的。
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