[Culturechat] Money over the area

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Everyone knows that CH can expensive. Compared to Oslo and Tokyo, it 
isn't so bad. Tokyo was recently supplanted by Oslo as the most 
expensive city in the world. Hong Kong and New York are close behind. 
Employees in Oslo, Copenhagen, Basel, and Zurich are the highest paid in 
the world. While Zurich is the 5th highest cost city, a worker has to 
only work 14 minutes to buy a Bg Mac. Why a Big Mac? Because it is sold 
around the world and a comparison is much easier than a "basket of 
goods" in which there are itens not found locally in all countries.

To buy a Big Mac takes 14 minutes of work in Zurich, 50 minutes in Riga, 
Latvia, and a whopping 3 hours in kenya.

People frequently comment on the standard of living in CH. If you get a 
high salary and have great purchasing power, that makes it happen.

-- 
Vance Roy 
gigli.saw@dplanet.ch
http://homepage.mac.com/fredch
Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.			
      ---General George Patton