Map Enthusiasts

This is, quite possibly, the most useless map I've seen.

Not only is it using average salaries, it's also only looking at country capitals, where executive salaries are notoriously obnoxious.

For this to have any real-life use, it should be using the median salary, at the very least, and use the average apartment price based on data from, I don't know, top-10 cities.

lisbon 🥀🥀

I can't speak for the other countries, but HOW IN THE FUCK would you even find a 1 bedroom apartment in Berlin?
Also, the average salary isn't what someone living in a 1 bedroom apartment would earn.
I'm over 40, working as an IT sysadmin, and just recently started making an average salary for Germany.
The average is skewed heavily by the top 10% who make a lot more than everyone else.
If you want to discuss housing prices, compare with the median instead.

Around 7% for a 5 bedroom house, including property taxes. I got lucky, landing a $106k purchase and then getting a $110k salary a few years later.

I hate my house, but it's mine and it's 7% of my base salary. It's lower than mine and my employers combined contributions to my rpp and rrsp.

I dread my renewal next summer..

Looking at this map and its indecipherable piecharts made me go "huh most of the capitals are actually livable" ... then I compared them with the only place where I have an idea of the rent, Copenhagen, and WTF?

I wouldn't even move to Copenhagen, how the fuck are y'all affording these other prices? Undisclosed income? WTF?!?

#portugalsukablyat

What part of tiny pie charts was necessary? Just make a heatmap but in dots.

RIP Lisbon

How you doin Lisbon?

Geezus Lisbon, get your shit together.

No but seriously, Lisbon how?

Seriously go look at pictures of Bern, Switzerland right now.

Weird choice to not include cities as big as the capitals. Milan, Zurich and Barcelona would definitely have been interesting.

Make sure you get only the largest, densest cities. Perfect.

Maybe a zoomable heat map would've been more fair.

Terrible charts aside, Bern and Vienna were surprising to me. Good wages? Or rent control laws?

This isn't factoring in other factors, like how the tax rate in Bern is very high, or how the cost of living is very high

What's going on in Lisbon?

This is a bad "map". The pie charts add clutter to the image, and it's not immediatly obvious how two cities compare. The country borders offer no additional information other than vague context for those who know what countries are located where. Since there is only one datapoint per country, it might as well have been a line of columns showing percentage of salary used by colouring part of the column red. The map medium does not help in anyway to provide the information.

Using a pie chart to represent a single (scalar) data point ... Bad map! Bad map!

This is missing the actual numbers.

ITT: people with no idea how to represent a proportion.

Pie charts are correct, here.