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By Kathleen Crislip, About.com Guide to Student Travel since 2004

Moscow World's Most Expensive City

Monday July 28, 2008
Via About.com's Guide to Eastern Europe comes the utterly unsurprising news that, for the third year in a row, Moscow is considered by respondents to a recent survey to be the spendiest city on the planet, followed by Tokyo with London not exactly lagging in third place.

Of those three wall of shame winners in cost per capita, you may be most likely to visit London this summer, though Tokyo's a great place for language study (and private Japanese universities are, btw, actually quite cheap, comparatively speaking) -- do know that though food and hostels in London are serious money belt-drainers, entertainment and transportation aren't bad (museums are mostly free, for instance, and an Oyster pass can cut London tube costs substantially). And if you do go to Russia, you're in for the trip of a lifetime in the former Soviet Union -- just know that a latte's up to $10 and a shot of vodka in a Moscow bar is $5-10 for the not-good stuff, and reserve those rubles accordingly.

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