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Fancy a bargain-basement holiday? You asked for it! - MSN Travel UK
Expatistan was used side by side with Mercer as primary source of the data for the article.
Expatistan Compares Cost of Living Between Two Cities - Lifehacker
Early review of the site in the influential Lifehacker site.
Interview with Expatistan: Cost of Living Figures Worldwide and (soon) Expat Job Boards - Career by choice
Interview with me about the website.
Cómo operan los mercados clave en la producción de pollo a nivel mundial [PDF] - El Mercurio, May 29th 2011.
Expatistan was used as a primary source for the article in the biggest and oldest daily newspaper in Chile.
In the land of Expats [PDF] - Agenda Beijing - Issue June 2011 - pages 28-29
Interview with me for the leading expat print maganize in Beijing.
Costo de Vida - Plug TV program - Sept 20th 2011
Review of expatistan.com in Plug, technology program aired weekly on Proyecto 40 (Mexican cable and satelite TV).

Launched in January 2010. Created and maintained by a single developer.
Collaborative database of prices (crowdsourced, like Wikipedia). The website users enter the prices for their own cities. Therefore, not all of the 900+ cities contained in the database have data yet.
Uses Prague as anchor value (Prague = 100)
317,000 prices entered in 1,018 different cities by 75,500 users coming from 110 different countries.
Compiles prices for 49 various products divided into 6 categories (Food, Housing, Clothes, Transportation, Personal Care, and Entertainment).
The index shows only the cities that have enough quality data to be reliable (129 at the moment). All 1,018 cities are accesible in the application, though.
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