Differences between groups from cities such as Tripoli, Benghazi and Misrata could get ugly if one or other thinks they have been bested in the power game.

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This is despite important differences between the two cities.

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Two big factors behind these differences are the dissimilarity of the rental and for-sale inventory being used to compute the simple price-rent ratio and the big differences in property taxes between these two cities.

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