Where residents of 17 New York City neighborhoods could move abroad and live for the same price

It's no surprise that New York City is expensive - but to give you an idea of just how expensive, database NeighborhoodX compared New York City neighborhoods to luxury destinations around the world.

Manhattan's Murray Hill, for example, is equivalent in purchase price per square foot of real estate to the romantic La Parte Vieja neighborhood in San Sebastian, Spain.

And Carroll Gardens in Brooklyn compares to an exclusive residential neighborhood in Oslo, Norway.

NeighborhoodX compiled data primarily on two-bedroom apartments. Their data set came from a mixture of proprietary research, public data sets from the real estate portals, and analysis from real estate analyst Jonathan Miller of Miller Samuel.

Here, we've highlighted 17 of the most expensive New York City neighborhoods and their luxurious counterparts around the world, where New Yorkers would pay nearly the same price for their homes: