The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said Sunday that 35 out of 70 cities monitored saw price increases last month compared with 31 cities in September.
Compared with those cities, Silicon Valley also has 30% more founders that want to change the world, according to the entrepreneurs' responses, and Silicon Valley start-ups on average raise two to three times as much money as those in other locales in their earliest stages of growth.
The data provider said property prices in 60 cities fell in December compared with the previous month, whereas 37 cities posted a rise, and prices in three cities were unchanged.
Data from China Real Estate Index System showed that property prices in 72 cities posted a decline in February compared with January, whereas prices in 27 cities rose.
One especially enterprising worker, amazed at the high rents in these global cities compared with his village on Sumatra, started to rent apartments to sublet as rooming houses for his friends.
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Oklahoma City's economic profile is stodgy at best, especially compared with the dynamism of Texas cities.
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Even in cities considered relatively safe, compared with other urban areas, pickpocketing is a problem.
"We are expecting a different degree of price correction in different cities, with major and coastal cities likely to see (bigger declines in prices) this year compared to the inner cities, " said Daiwa Capital Markets analyst Danny Bao, who added that he expects property transaction volume to fall 10% this year.
In December home prices in 70 cities rose by 6.4% compared with a year earlier.
Only a quarter of migrant workers in the cities were covered by pensions in 2010, compared with four-fifths of locals, according to Albert Park of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
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Joel Kotkin, of Pepperdine University, calculates that, although the city has not been as successful at creating work as the rest of California, it is doing better than most other cities: New York has 10% unemployment, compared with Los Angeles's 7%, and is losing manufacturing jobs while Los Angeles creates them.
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Prices of newly built homes in major cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen and Guangzhou were marginally lower compared with November, the statistics bureau's statement said.
Prime properties in cities such as London and Paris are selling for yields often below 5%, compared with around 6% during the depths of the downturn.
Of the 70 major Chinese cities tracked by NBS, 67 saw home prices increase in April compared to March, with the highest growth rate at 2.1%, down from the 3.2% in March.
Data gathered between 1996 and 2006 by the University of Chicago's General Social Survey revealed that in the country's 12 largest cities, about 18% of married men and women had more than one partner, compared with 15% of respondents in the corresponding suburban areas.
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