Demo / estimated data: current version uses estimated ranges.Verify visa, tax, insurance, and neighborhood reality before moving.

Data sources

How ExpatPrice builds its ranges

ExpatPrice uses ranges because relocation data is noisy by neighborhood, building quality, season, and personal habits. A useful decision model should show uncertainty clearly instead of pretending fake precision is truth.

Format
Ranges
Confidence
High / Medium / Low
Source records
641
City-linked
530
Why it wins
  • Ranges stay more honest than pseudo-exact prices.
  • Confidence tells you how hard to trust a metric today.
  • Source notes show the logic behind the estimate.
Main risks
  • Fast-moving cities go stale first.
  • Luxury and rent vary heavily by micro-location.
  • Visa, tax, and insurance always need final verification.

Why ranges

Rent is not one number. A $500 condo and a $900 condo can both be "Bangkok 1BR" depending on BTS access, age of the building, pool/gym quality, furnishing, and landlord quality.

The same applies to groceries, coworking, insurance, or delivery-heavy living. Ranges protect the product from false certainty.

Confidence model

high confidence

Official source or direct local portal, ideally cross-checked with another recent source.

medium confidence

Local portal, specialist guide, or public source that is useful but still sensitive to neighborhood and timing.

low confidence

Derived, broad, old, or single-source data. Treat it as a warning or first pass, not final truth.

Trust & source quality

Current public source catalog examples

Carrefour UAE groceries

cost_of_living source for abu-dhabi. Abu Dhabi: Public source linked for city-level planning ranges. Treat as estimate until human-verified.

Open source
medium confidenceUpdated 2026-05-09

ADDC Abu Dhabi tariffs

electricity source for abu-dhabi. Abu Dhabi: Public source linked for city-level planning ranges. Treat as estimate until human-verified.

Open source
high confidenceUpdated 2026-05-09

Abu Dhabi Department of Health

healthcare source for abu-dhabi. Abu Dhabi: Public source linked for city-level planning ranges. Treat as estimate until human-verified.

Open source
high confidenceUpdated 2026-05-09

UAE Federal Competitiveness and Statistics Centre

income source for abu-dhabi. Abu Dhabi: Public source linked for city-level planning ranges. Treat as estimate until human-verified.

Open source
medium confidenceUpdated 2026-05-09

Etisalat UAE home internet

internet source for abu-dhabi. Abu Dhabi: Public source linked for city-level planning ranges. Treat as estimate until human-verified.

Open source
medium confidenceUpdated 2026-05-09

Bayut Abu Dhabi apartment rentals

rent source for abu-dhabi. Abu Dhabi: Public source linked for city-level planning ranges. Treat as estimate until human-verified.

Open source
medium confidenceUpdated 2026-05-09

Suggest a correction

If you know a city better than the current dataset, send the metric, the better range, and the source or field note behind it. The most useful corrections are neighborhood-specific and dated.

Next step

Need the ranges explained inside a city page?

Open a city profile, compare view, burn-rate page, or best-countries card to see source notes and confidence directly next to the decision layer.