RE: Re[2]: Becoming a DBA questions

    Perhaps a better way to put it is the buying power is the same in relation to the average salary. The cost of living may be 3 times the amount as another place, but the going rate for a DBA there will also be roughly 3 times that of the other location. Thus, the same buying power. People just get caught up in the rather large sounding amount. (i.e. $245K a year sounds like a lot in American dollars...).

Alan Aschenbrenner
DBA
IHS Group
alan.aschenbrenner_at_ihs.com

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Monday, January 07, 2002, 9:15:21 PM, you wrote:

KS> I always find it funny when people do the conversions.  I don't know how
KS> many times I have to explain to people at work that $1 Canadian in Canada
KS> has the same buying power as $1 American in the US.

I'm not convinced of that. Last time I visited Canada, gas cost me more Canadian dollars per gallon that U.S. dollars per gallon in the states. Ditto for coffee, pop, candy bars, fast-food, etc. In many cases, portions were smaller. I'd buy a large coffee at McDonalds in Canada and it'd be a lot smaller than a U.S. large.

KS> Even funny is when I point out there was a time (and that is in my lifetime)
KS> when Canadians flocked to the US to buy cause our dollar was worth more.
KS> They just won't believe me but I swear to god it's true.

I distinctly remember this. I don't remember the flocking part, but I clearly remember a brief time back when I was a teenager that the Canadian dollar was worth a few cents more than ours. So now you've found at least one person who believes.

Canada's my favorite vacation destination, btw. I had the holidays off and tried to convince my daughter to go on a rail/bus trip to Moosonee. I was really excited about the idea, but Jenny wouldn't hear of it. She actually got mad at me for even suggestion we travel farther north. So I gave up on Moosonee for now, and I'm looking at maybe doing a weekend rail trip to Hearst with my son.

Best regards,

Jonathan Gennick
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