CNN.com – Tokyo tops list of world’s costliest cities – Jun 21, 2005:
LONDON, England (AP) — Japan’s Tokyo and Osaka are the world’s most expensive cities with London in third place, according to a survey released Monday. New York, the most costly of American cities, placed 13th.
So, my American friends, never again tell me how expensive the East / West coast is. You’re not a patch on us here. Only the Japanese can manage to make their city lives more expensive – but they have even less land than us.