32 Of The World’s Cheapest Cities To Live In

Ankara, Turkey

Turkey’s capital city, Ankara, isn’t just the governmental hub of the country — it’s a cultural center as well. Tucked in the Anatolia region in the heart of the country, Ankara is also one of the cheapest big cities to live inwith a cost of living 59 percent cheaper than in New York City. Expect to pay just 8 percent of what you’d pay for rent living in the Big Apple. Ankara, Turkey’s cosmopolitan capital, sits in the country’s central Anatolia region. It’s a center for the performing arts, home to the State Opera and Ballet, the Presidential Symphony Orchestra and several national theater companies. Overlooking the city is Anitkabir, the enormous hilltop mausoleum of Kemal Atatürk, modern Turkey’s first president, who declared Ankara the capital in 1923.