4. San Francisco, US
San Francisco, California — with the Silicon Valley tech hub on its door steep — is one of the world’s most expensive cities to live and work in, but for good reason.
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The wealth, the talent, and the creativity in the city has continued to grow in recent years, despite the sky-high property prices and seemingly never-ending flow of investor cash.
Uber, Salesforce, and Wells Fargo are some of the companies that call the city home.
Over the last three years San Francisco had annual job growth average of 2.8 percent, and average pay of $70,000.
