"cc cc" <cc@hoyujkkk.bjj> wrote...
> "Kevin Gowen" <kgowenNOSPAM@myfastmail.com> 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 Am$(D??(Blie Nothomb clone? ;-)