>What we thought - nothing. If average monthly salary in ex-communist countries like Bulgaria, Russia... is around $100, it is normally peoples to think to survive first and after that for other things. For most of our people computer is luxury, like a car, microwave oven and so on.
>But we still keep our education system, which produce people like us.
>Dear community please remember Great Depression in USA; situation here is the same.
>Statistics give us only numbers; this is not the whole picture.

Jordan,

Thanks for your comments. I guess that's what I'm curious about; the whole picture from a source that is not just results from a survey. I believe we in the US (or at least myself) take for granted the things we have. Making somewere between $5,000 and $10,000 per month, having not one, but three computers (1 at work, 2 at home) and the freedom to find work relatively easily.

I've never experienced a depression. Just trying to gain some perspective...

Renoir