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The beauty of the US, compared to many places I've traveled, is the higher-than-average wages and lower-than-average prices. This is why you can pick almost an
by nostromo 13y ago
The beauty of the US, compared to many places I've traveled, is the higher-than-average wages and lower-than-average prices.
This is why you can pick almost any suburb in America and see middle-class folks with giant houses filled with two cars and a mountain of junk made in China.
- tostitos1979 13y agoI'm not sure the average wage is higher. Average prices do seem lower. But it is more complicated than that (there are parts of Asia, Eastern Europe and Africa where stuff is really cheap!). I'd qualify by saying for the basket of goods I consume, the prices seem lower.