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Warsaw no longer Poland’s most expensive city

08.02.2010 12:15

Poznan

Warsaw is no longer Poland’s most expensive city in terms of public utility services, now outranked by Poznan, Gdansk and Bydgoszcz.

The rankings, reported by the Dziennik Gazeta Prawna daily, show that the capital has dropped in the ranking from the top slot in 2008, due to constant prices in public transport fares, and utility bills for water and sewage disposal charged by the Municipal Sanitation Company.

So far, Poznan, in western Poland, remains in the lead, with the country’s highest mass transport fares and costs of garbage collection services. The prices of water and sewage disposal are steepest in the southern city of Katowice, and heating bills – in Szczecin, northeastern Poland.

Meanwhile, according to the report, utility bills are lowest in Wroclaw, in the southwest, Lodz, central Poland, and in Lublin, southeast Poland. (ab/mmj)

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Pioro

08/02/2010 20:26:48

So what. This still doesn't change the fact that the overall cost of living in Warsaw far exceeds any other city in Poland while not even providing a relatively high quality of living as Poznan, Krakow, or Wroclaw do.

09/02/2010 04:50:48

if i was an international corporation, and was looking to open an office in poland, i may not choose warsaw.
however! warsaw has the airport with the most connections, so this would probably affect my decision the most.

Malaysian

09/02/2010 08:49:58

As the capital of Poland, Warsaw has many advantages to local/international businesses (which are a pulling factor for migrants from all parts of Poland, EU and to a lesser extend the world).

Since it is also the seat of the parliament, executive and judicial branches of the government, Warsaw is also the centre of power of Poland.

This I bet would make the rent comparatively much more higher than other cities around Poland. Higher demand from a large population will also push up the prices of services like diners and pubs.

Using the utility rates as the sole judgement of which city is the most expensive one is highly insufficient and grossly underestimated the effects of other factors like prices of rent, goods and services.

Pioro

09/02/2010 09:32:55

Fully agree with both of you Malaysian but that still doesn't mean Warsaw has the best quality of life. As b mentioned, I run a small office for a foreign firm and have to travel around Europe a lot so the airport is one of the main reasons I am in Warsaw. But otherwise Warsaw has about as much charm as Chernobyl. There is no street life, no cafes, no local shops (aside from a very few central areas), you must drive everywhere, no easy access to nature, blocks, blocks, and more blocks. It has even been ranked the ugliest capital in Europe by tripadvisor.com's users. The only other positive is the variety of restaurants one can find here wherein other major Polish cities you are limited to sushi and italian. But if Wroclaw had better air connections I would move there in a heartbeat.

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