American freelance writer Andrew Curry, who is paid in dollars that must be converted to euros to pay his bills in Berlin, told Reuters this week, "I used to be able to brag that Berlin was really affordable but now my rent actually works out on par with Washington and New York. It's pretty terrible."

New Yorker in Paris, Eunice Lipton, said in the same article, "The dollar is having a terrible impact on us."

What gives?