Priced Apart

Priced Apart compares the real cost of living in two cities, side by side.

Each series takes one anchor city and measures it against the world, one challenger at a time — rent, property, salary, bills and the same 10-item supermarket basket. Every figure sourced, dated and shown on screen. Geneva is the anchor first. Berlin follows.

I make this because cities genuinely interest me, and because "cheap" and "expensive" turn out to be almost useless words on their own. A city can be cheaper at every till and still take a bigger share of what you earn. That gap is where people get caught out when they move, and it is the one thing a rent listing will never tell you.

So I do the arithmetic properly, in public, and leave the decision to you. The numbers I wish I'd had are the ones I put on screen.

No estimates. No scraped averages. Listed prices, collected the month the video goes out.

A new comparison every weekday.

Contact: pricedapartmedia@gmail.com