Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!onodera-news!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!headwall.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: dvdfan9@hotmail.com (Ken) Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan,soc.culture.europe Subject: Re: Americans aren't so lazy after all Date: 27 Jul 2003 09:15:48 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Lines: 27 Message-ID: References: <306ac174607f6d8a832a527bdd9e579b@free.teranews.com> <3F22213F.7A96C099@po.cwru.edu> <73fde4f0.0307261636.1179a21e@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.19.126.30 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1059322549 22231 127.0.0.1 (27 Jul 2003 16:15:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 27 Jul 2003 16:15:49 GMT Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:3436 "cc cc" wrote... > "Kevin Gowen" wrote in message > > > > Well, I can say with authority that living in Kobe, Japan requires > > > much more money than in my current Nashville, Tennessee, US. Of > > > course, so does living in San Francisco. > >> > > > I like the Big Mac theory myself. > > > > Me too. I have to go against straight monetary comparisons in favor of PPP > > comparisons such as the Big Mac theory. > > That evalutes the cost of a cheap American life. > > My father takes the price of 12 oysters and a bottle of white wine in a > restaurant. That makes him a light dinner. He takes the figure in Euro on > his credit card listing. > Cheapest : Bangkok, then Paris, then different places in Europe. Ireland > being particularly expensive, much more expensive than London....after that, > Acapulco. Florida, he said that was a little more expensive than Acapulco, > but New York was much cheaper (why would he take into account the > fluctuations of the dollar ?). The places where he paid the more were Tokyo > (endaka jidai), Luxembourg and Mauritius, I don't remember in which order. > > Well, thanks God, I eat oysters more often than bigmacs. Are you fjlij's Amélie Nothomb clone? ;-)