Curt Fischer <crf3@po.cwru.edu> wrote in message news:<3F22213F.7A96C099@po.cwru.edu>...

> I disagree.  Straight monetary comparisons are the best way anyone has
> come up with yet to measure value.  Anyone who tries to discount this is
> merely incorporating their own biased valuation of land, housing, cars,
> etc. into the picture.
> 
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.

John W.