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Auf Wiedersehen, Berlin. À bientôt, Paris. Young and mobile people of the world, say g’day to Sydney.

Sydney is this year’s most affordable city to live in, according to a new report from YouthfulCities. The Toronto-based startup’s 2015 report ranks 55 of the world’s largest cities on how affordable they are for people 15 to 29 years old.

Last year’s index put Paris at the top, which may have seemed a baffling choice if not for the city’s relatively high minimum wage, which tops $12.50 an hour, helping residents afford the city’s higher-than-average expenses.

This year, with an expanded scope of 55 cities from last year’s 25, Sydney has shot to the top.

Since YouthfulCities expanded its ranking, London, with a minimum wage listed at $7.85, and US cities like Dallas ($7.25), Chicago ($8.25), and New York ($8.75) have dropped from the 10 cities with the highest minimum wages, beat out by the likes of Sydney ($16.28), San Francisco ($11.05), and Montreal ($10.05). Paris still figures strongly into the ranking on this front, with a minimum wage of $12.52. (For cities without a legislated minimum, the ranking relies on typical wages for an entry-level job, for example at a fast-food restaurant.)

Detroit ($8.15) doesn’t figure into the top 10 by wages, but relatively low living expenses put the city at No. 3 on the overall ranking.

Of the places YouthfulCities considered this year, those with the lowest minimum wages are Dar Es Salaam (26 cents) and Accra (37 cents).

The index considers minimum wage in relation to various expenses, for things like rent and movie tickets. In Sydney, for example, it takes 14.4 minutes of working at minimum wage to buy a tube of toothpaste. In Osaka, it’s 18 minutes.

Here are the 55 cities ranked by overall affordability:

Ranking City 1 Sydney 2 Montreal 3 Detroit 4 San Francisco 5 Berlin 6 Tokyo 7 Boston 8 Osaka 9 Paris 10 Los Angeles 11 Washington DC 12 Dallas 13 Toronto 14 Miami 15 Vancouver 16 Chicago 17 New York City 18 Tel Aviv 19 Tehran 20 Seoul 21 Amsterdam 22 Madrid 23 London 24 Quito 25 Rome 26 Hong Kong 27 Dubai 28 Shanghai 29 Lima 30 Singapore 31 Cairo 32 Jakarta 33 Warsaw 34 Buenos Aires 35 Casablanca 36 Bangkok 37 Manila 38 Istanbul 39 New Delhi 40 Santiago 41 Bogotá 42 Durban 43 Karachi 44 Nairobi 45 Johannesburg 46 São Paulo 47 Rio de Janeiro 48 Moscow 49 Lagos 50 Beirut 51 Mexico City 52 Mumbai 53 Dar Es Salaam 54 Accra 55 Caracas

One word of caution to young people suddenly considering a move to Australia: Rent in Sydney may be cheap, but you’ll probably want to look elsewhere when you’re ready for a mortgage.