I disagree. Food is much cheaper in many countries. While in Central America I regularly bought food off the economy instead from the government stores because it was so much cheaper. A meal at a good restaurant cost less than half what it would cost in the U.S. Medicines were at least 4 times cheaper as well. A nice apartment cost less than half what it would cost here and there were many. The cost of living was not anything like it is here. Now Germany and the rest of Europe was a different story. Giving my U.S. salary, I was lucky because at the time the dollar was strong. I was paid in U.S. dollars and my apartment cost about the same in Germany as it would here but since the exchange rate at the time was 2.5 to 1, it cost me so much less.





>>I may not have a solid understand, but are we truly "rich" here? The wages may be significantly higher here, but isn't the cost of living also? Are there any charts, I wonder, that show the disparity in a balanced way?
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>Cost of the food is the same all over the world according my observations.
>Cost of equipment, fuel and cars, too.
>But housing vary.
>If we like to keep the same standard of living - salaries will vary slightly.
>In less develop countries people have not access to many of the items which we regularly use