cost of living in Tehran

February 18, 2004 12:35 AM

How much is the cost of living in Tehran, Iran? Also look at some other vital statistics about the non-Arab country.
posted by hoder (17 comments total)

Gee, that's neat.
posted by interrobang at 1:09 AM on February 18, 2004

Sheesh, I want to move to Iran now if it is so cheap to live there!
posted by Eekacat at 2:58 AM on February 18, 2004

non-Arab?!?
posted by Cyrano at 5:34 AM on February 18, 2004

educate yourself (and wouldn't it be ironic if the name Cyrano is related to Cyrus?)
posted by andrew cooke at 5:48 AM on February 18, 2004

When it says "Street Vendor" do you suppose that is the guy who sells the blocks of crap for people to heat their homes with?
posted by juicyraoul at 5:49 AM on February 18, 2004

Want to live there? Using my salary, sure. Using their salaries, I don't think so.

Average looks to be about 200.00 / month per person.

Average cost of an apartment is 422.00.

Gonna get a little crowded. No?
posted by Decypher at 5:56 AM on February 18, 2004

andrew cooke, Cyrano is a character from a (French?) play about (simply put) a guy with a huge nose. It's good.
posted by thebabelfish at 6:03 AM on February 18, 2004

Iran seems to be having a lot of bad luck lately.
posted by shoepal at 6:33 AM on February 18, 2004

Thanks, Hoder and Cooke, for lessening, ever so slightly, my vast stores of ignorance concerning the Middle East.
posted by kcmoryan at 6:59 AM on February 18, 2004

Huh. Well, you learn something every day, don't you? Thanks.

Oddly, I grew up in Saudi Arabia and very few people there made the same distinction except on one issue: Everyone in Saudi Arabia refers to the Persian Gulf as the Arabian Gulf. Screwed me for a few years on geography tests when I came back to the US.

(thebabelfish, yeah, the play is French.)
posted by Cyrano at 7:22 AM on February 18, 2004

(I probably should have said "referred" since that might have changed a bit following the influx of Americans after Iraq War I.)
posted by Cyrano at 7:28 AM on February 18, 2004

And Savien Cyrano de Bergerac was a French soldier, but I can't find any info that suggests the name has common roots with Cyrus (who founded the Persian Empire)
posted by andrew cooke at 8:14 AM on February 18, 2004

Iran is a non-Arab country? Someone explain, I am dumb.
posted by xmutex at 8:53 AM on February 18, 2004

i already did, via the link above.
posted by andrew cooke at 8:56 AM on February 18, 2004

It's Persian, gahdammit.

I flew over Iran recently and was surprised at how rugged it is. It looked like I was flying over the Rockies. And huge -- took like 5 hours.
posted by goethean at 9:07 AM on February 18, 2004

bad news
posted by andrew cooke at 10:32 AM on February 18, 2004

Cyrano- Francophonification of the Greek, Cyrene - a mythological nymph.

Cyrus - ancient Persian sun god and king named for such.

Thanks for adding the non-arab part hoder, glad for folks to be educated about that whenever possible.
posted by Pollomacho at 12:08 PM on February 18, 2004