San Sebastián is Spain's most expensive city
Wednesday, August 20, 2014 @ 7:33 PM
SPAIN'S most expensive city to live in is San Sebastián (pictured) in the Basque Country, followed by Madrid and Barcelona in that order.
Tarragona, in southern Catalunya, is fourth and Bilbao – also in the Basque Country – is the fifth-most pricey city to set up home.
A study posted in Forbesmagazine explained that researchers took the price of a basket of food, a kilo of apples and a loaf of bread, as well as the average rent or mortgage price, the cost of a bus or train ticket and a 10-journey pass, a taxi trip and a litre of petrol, local taxes including IBI – payable on residential or business property owned – vehicles and rubbish collection, and the price of eating out or going to the cinema.
They compared all this with the national average and listed those which came out more costly than that figure to live in.
All of Catalunya's provincial capitals made the list – after Palma de Mallorca, the sixth-most expensive city in the country to live in, came Girona and Lleida.
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