1rst New (last term)

Life in Barcelona is as expensive as New York.

This year, the Catalan capital called Barcelona is the 20th city with the most expensive prices in the world (eight more positions than last year) and New York is 18th on the list.

North American cities like New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and more have lost between 10 and 15 places on the ranking of the most expensive cities of 2005, 2006 and 2007.

The cause of this phenomenon has been the dollar’s developed with the Euro's entry. This new coin since 2000 has become the only currency in these last years, and now the live in Europe it’s very expensive. So, the first eleven most expensive cities are European.
Barcelona is in 24th position which is quite low in the ranking of 2005, in connection with buying property and prices and salaries.

I think the Euro, in general, hasn’t been a good change in Europe because this new coin is more expensive than the last (the “pesseta” in Spain) and it has been a problem to the society. Yes, because everything has risen in price and it has made life more expensive.
Well, the Euro can be an advantage and easier at the time to travel in Europe than before, but there is much difference between the Euros’ value and pesseta’s value.

We have to go careful and to pay attention when we go to shopping!!

- Link:

One magazine called Amigos - 03/2008

- I've learnt the word coin (moneda), dollar's devalued (la pèrdua de valor del dolar) and currency (the same that coin=moneda).