Showing posts with label Milan cost of living. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Milan cost of living. Show all posts

Sunday, August 14, 2011

Moving to Milan

Today we look at moving to Milan in Italy from Calcutta in India. We highlight cost of living and other major differences likely to be experienced in our series of short blogs on moving between different international locations.
In Milan people speak Italian. In Calcutta people speak Hindi, English and at least 16 other official languages.

Milan, is the capital of the region of Lombardia and of the province of Milan. Calcutta is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal. Milan is one of the EU's and the world's major financial and business centres. Milan is also regarded as the true current fashion capital of the world. Calcutta is the main business, commercial and financial hub of eastern India and the northeastern states. It is home to the Calcutta Stock Exchange, India's second-largest bourse. It is also a major commercial and military port, and the only city in the region to have an international airport.

The overall cost of living rank in Milan is 36 out of 300 global locations, which equates it with high cost of living locations.  An expatriate moving from Calcutta to Milan will experience a change in cost of living of 27.1%.
In terms of the hardship people are likely to experience, assessed in global terms, Milan is ranked as a minimal hardship location with a hardship index of 10% compared to Calcutta with a hardship index of 30% which is a high degree of hardship location.

Source: http://www.xpatulator.com as at July 2011.

Monday, June 14, 2010

Italy, Milan Cost of Living April 2010

Country Full Name: Italian Republic.

Location: Italy is in Southern Europe, a peninsula extending into the central Mediterranean Sea, northeast of Tunisia.

Country Climate: Predominantly Mediterranean; Alpine in far north; hot, dry in south.

Country Terrain: Mostly rugged and mountainous; some plains, coastal lowlands.

Major Languages: Italian.

Major Religions: Christianity.

Country Population: 59.3 million (2008 est.) 59.8 million (2009 est.).

Country Economy: The economy of Italy is the seventh-largest economy in the world and the fourth-largest in Europe, according to the International Monetary Fund. Italy belongs to the Group of Eight (G8) industrialized nations; it is a member of the European Union and OECD. The country is divided into a developed industrial north dominated by large private companies and an agricultural, state-assisted south.

Currency: Euro (EUR).

Country Inflation: 3.5% (2008 est.) 0.75% (2009 est.).

City: Milan, is the capital of the region of Lombardia and of the province of Milan.

City Economy: Milan is one of the EU's and the world's major financial and business centres. Milan is also regarded as the true current fashion capital of the world.
Cost of Living: Milan has an overall cost of living index which equates it with high cost of living locations. The overall cost of living index is comprised of the prices for defined quantities of the same goods and services across all 13 Basket Groups. Milan is currently ranked 22 overall, most expensive place in the world for expatriates to live, out of 282 international locations.

For more cost of living information on Italy, Milan Cost of Living