OPINION - New York's so expensive it makes London prices seem reasonable (though it's just as divided on Israel-Gaza)

New York is the habitually unfinished city, home to a thousand exoskeletons and as many more vaguely futuristic building sites, a town in a constant state of flux. It is now also the most expensive city in the world (it just overtook Hong Kong), a place that makes London — itself ridiculously expensive but after Geneva rather embarrassingly only the fourth most expensive — seem almost reasonable. It’s now 25 to 30 per cent more expensive to eat out, get a taxi, stay in a hotel, buy a pair of trainers or even consider the cheaper secondhand options on the sidewalk outside the Strand bookstore.