{"id":173687,"date":"2017-05-08T10:43:19","date_gmt":"2017-05-08T08:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=173687"},"modified":"2017-05-08T10:43:19","modified_gmt":"2017-05-08T08:43:19","slug":"how-much-it-costs-to-go-on-a-date-in-joburg-vs-major-global-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/banking\/173687\/how-much-it-costs-to-go-on-a-date-in-joburg-vs-major-global-cities\/","title":{"rendered":"How much it costs to go on a date in Joburg vs major global cities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zurich is the most expensive place out of 47 major global cities to have dinner, see a film, take a taxi or combine these on a &#8216;cheap date&#8217;, according to new data by Deutsche Bank.<\/p>\n<p>A date night out for two costs $195.90 (R2,645) in the Swiss city, while Japan&#8217;s Tokyo and Oslo in Norway are next on the list of the priciest places for courtship,\u00a0Deutsche Bank\u2019s special report: Mapping the World\u2019s Prices 2017 found.<\/p>\n<p>However, Zurich also has the highest average salaries, followed by US cities and Sydney. People living in Jakarta, Manila or Rio could potentially increase their salary tenfold by moving to the Swiss city.<\/p>\n<p>London has slipped out of the top 10 cities for salaries following the depreciation of sterling after the Brexit vote.<\/p>\n<p>Joburg is one of the cheaper cities polled by Deutsche Bank &#8211; with a night out for two costing just over $60 (R810).<\/p>\n<p><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/BloombergDB-e1494232464280.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-173689\" src=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/BloombergDB-e1494232464280.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a>Meanwhile, the so-called \u201cbad habits index\u201d of beer and cigarettes is led by Australia, New Zealand and Singapore, while it is cheapest to indulge in the Czech Republic and South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers collected the data by surveying prices on the internet as well as by using crowdsourcing techniques.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/151102\/the-cheapest-and-most-expensive-cities-in-south-africa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The cheapest and most expensive cities in South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zurich is the most expensive place to have dinner, see a film, take a taxi or combine these on a &#8216;cheap date&#8217;, according to new data by Deutsche Bank.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":173691,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[961],"tags":[7885,26],"class_list":["post-173687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-banking","tag-deutsche-bank","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173687"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173697,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173687\/revisions\/173697"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}