Here are some cost of living figures for different world cities, taken from homefair.com. If you live in New York City and make $100,000 a year, it's effectively the same as making the following amount in the following cities...
- New York City: $100,000
- Geneva: 100,000
- Tokyo: 98,000
- Chicago, Illinois: 96,000
- Hong Kong: 96,000
- Boston, Massachusetts: 90,000
- Mumbai: 85,000
- Dublin: 82,000
- Anchorage, Alaska: 82,000
- Seoul: 81,000
- Istanbul: 81,000
- Washington, D.C.: 78,000
- London: 74,000
- Seattle, Washington: 74,000
- Moscow: 72,000
- Miami, Florida: 72,000
- Buenos Aires: 71,000
- Shanghai: 71,000
- Los Angeles, California: 71,000
- Dallas, Texas: 66,000
- Cairo: 65,000
- San Juan: 65,000
- Singapore: 62,000
- Rio de Janeiro: 62,000
- Prague: 62,000
- Atlanta, Georgia: 62,000
- Paris: 61,000
- Toronto: 61,000
- Honolulu, Hawaii: 61,000
- Tel Aviv: 60,000
- Sydney: 58,000
- Vancouver: 58,000
- Montreal: 56,000
- Kolkata: 56,000
- Sioux City, Iowa: 55,000
- Helsinki: 54,000
- Munich: 52,000
- Lagos: 51,000
- Kabul: 41,000