Sunday, July 24, 2011

Moving to Bangui

Today we look at moving to Bangui in Central African Republic from Bujumbura in Burundi. We highlight cost of living and other major differences likely to be experienced in our series of short blogs on moving between different international locations.
In Bujumbura people speak Kirundi (official), French (official) and Swahili. In Bangui people speak French and Sangho (lingua franca).

Bujumbura is the capital city and main port of Burundi. Bangui is the capital of and the largest city in the Central African Republic. Bujumbura's port ships most of the country's chief export, coffee, as well as cotton, skins, and tin ore. Bangui serves as an administrative, trade, and commercial center.

The overall cost of living rank in Bujumbura is 269 out of 300 global locations, which equates it with low cost of living locations.  An expatriate moving from Bujumbura to Bangui which has an overall cost of living rank of 54, which equates it with high cost of living locations, will experience a change in cost of living of 52.1%.
In terms of the hardship people are likely to experience, assessed in global terms, Bangui is ranked as an extreme hardship location with a hardship index of 40% compared to Bujumbura with a hardship index of 40% which is an extreme hardship location.

Source: http://www.xpatulator.com as at July 2011.

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