Sydney may not be as expensive as it was a year ago by global standards, thanks to a weaker local currency, but Australia is still one of the world’s priciest economies, even if dating just got more affordable.
It costs an average of $US104 ($A111.08) for two people to go out on a simple date in Sydney – the world’s fifth priciest city, according to the Deutsche Bank Cheap Date Index.
That’s the same price as dating in Paris, the city of love, but it is actually cheaper than it was in 2013 with the average date back then in Sydney costing $US229.77 – the world’s dearest, and $US226.56 in Melbourne.
David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal.
He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.
