<story><title>Collaborative international cost-of-living index</title><url>http://www.expatistan.com/cost-of-living</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>carbeewo</author><text>This looks very similar to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.numbeo.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.numbeo.com&lt;/a&gt; which was also created in 2009. Is it the same data?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zhte415</author><text>When living in a city that has niche, but no general, name recognition, a friend and I were taken for dinner, a very nice dinner, by a lady who worked for an international relocation consultancy.  This was in 2008&amp;#x2F;2009.  She politely, and professionally, refused to disclose the name of her company and of her company&amp;#x27;s client.  Her job was to fly somewhere twice a month, anywhere in the world, meet English speakers ovr dinner, walk around shops with a camera, and write quantitative and qualitative reports of her findings.&lt;p&gt;The questions and purchase options in this crowd sourced list are extremely similar to the &amp;#x27;basket of goods&amp;#x27; she was seeking.  Prices are also pretty similar to 2008&amp;#x2F;2009 but a bit askew from today (particularly food, which over the past 5 years has experienced significant inflation).&lt;p&gt;Was there a surge of this type of information collection at the time (I can&amp;#x27;t recall anything of note online), or has a relocation &amp;#x2F; relocation-type consultancy released past data?</text></comment>
<story><title>Collaborative international cost-of-living index</title><url>http://www.expatistan.com/cost-of-living</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>carbeewo</author><text>This looks very similar to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.numbeo.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.numbeo.com&lt;/a&gt; which was also created in 2009. Is it the same data?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pardo</author><text>The creator of Expatistan here. No, it is not the same data. Both sites follow a similar principle but we do not share data.</text></comment>