Living in Brisbane more expensive than New York

Australia’s rising cost of living has combined with the powering dollar to make Brisbane a more expensive city to live in than New York, London or Hong Kong.

Brisbane has been ranked the 14th most expensive city in the world in the latest edition of a global economic survey, conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit.

It puts the city almost 25 per cent dearer than New York.

Inge has known this for ages of course everytime she does the weekly shopping, groceries are really expensive here.