Numbeo
numbeo.com
The world's largest crowd-sourced database of city and country data covering cost of living, quality of life, crime, healthcare, and traffic indices.
Why it is useful
Provides cost of living comparisons across hundreds of cities that are more granular and current than anything produced by official statistical agencies — rent, grocery prices, restaurant costs, and salaries are all broken down and comparable. For remote workers deciding where to live, expats planning relocations, or anyone doing purchasing-power research, it fills a gap that no official source covers.
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