[jonmaim]

A very useful site to help you find a good city/country is numbeo.com. There you can make cost-of-living comparison between 2 cities.

For example, look at the difference between Lausanne, Switzerland and Bangalore, India (the indian silicon valley!) -> bit.ly/ltwXUf

[bravura]

I find the Cost of Living Index on the bottom of that site to be suspect. If NYC is 100, Berlin is 91.71? I simply don't trust that. I lived in New York for years, and have spent several weeks in Berlin.

Berlin is far cheaper than NYC. It is considered one of the cheapest big cities in Europe. And numbeo says that it is only 10% cheaper than NYC: http://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/cpi_explained.jsp

I find that the estimate on Expatistan seem much more reasonable: http://www.expatistan.com/cost-of-living/comparison/berlin/n...

Expatistan: NYC is 43% more expensive than Berlin

Perhaps this is because Expatistan provides more emphasis on the entertainment category?

p.s. Please don't use shortened links on HN.

[jonmaim]

expatisan is very nice for big cities, but as soon as you look for smaller city no data is available.