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Re: Ldraw cannon
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Fri, 4 Dec 1998 00:55:13 GMT
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The best earners in Turkey, who are working for sombady else (I mean payed to
work for, not having own private job), are foreign workers of foreign companies.
They are generally payed with foreign currency.
We have very high (80-100% annual) inflation rates, and foreign currency always
getting value simply more rapidly, wrt. Turkish Lira (300 000 TL=1 $ right now).
This situation results in continiously decreased purchasing power for natives,
together with not enough (always less than the inflation rate) yearly/six
monthly increases in salaries, although prchasing power of foreign currency
steadily increases. This means, if you payed with US Dollars (or something like)
in Turkey, Every morning you wake up, you are richer than the yesterday.
I don't need to mention low living standards in Turkey, which is another cause.
If you are a foreigner, you would be payed with at least in the scale of your
native country by your company, and generally even more of it, since yuo are
working in a third worlder, undeveloped, and virtually dangereous (to own
standards(1) country. This makes a very big difference. As far as I know, the
lowest legal bid that could be payed to a worker for a month is around 2200$ in
US, but it is (read my lips) around '120$' in Turkey. As another example, me and
my wife are both engineers, well earning to Turkish standards, and our total
monthly sallary is 510 million TL which is exactly 1700$. So, as you already
guessed, living in Turkey is far much cheaper than you get used to. Imagine
living here with a sallary of higher tahn the standard sallaries in your
homeland...Heaven?..:-)
That is why there are football stadium like flats (2), and why I can't live in
one..:-D (3)
regards,
Selçuk
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(1) Actually, in universal standards:
Number of Traffic Accidents in one year:
near 350 000
Number of people killed in these acccidents:
more than 6000
(2) Not exactly a true sentence, I just liked but saying so..:-)
(3) My flat is a 110m2 type, 10m2 is a balcony, and total
60m2 of rooms (a bedroom, a living room, and a computer
/hobby room(4) and 40m2 of other utilities, like bath,
entrance, kitchen, wc.
(4) As you guessed, this one is also my(5) lego room,
and is only 4.20x4.20 meters. (three book cases, one
computer table, one study table, two computers with
a scanner and printer, painting and sculpturing thingies
of my wife...and more than 20 000 pieces of Legos :-D
(5) I wish I could say 'our' but my wife still watching legos
from far..:-(
Richard Dee wrote:
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> I visited an ex-pat family on the east side of Istanbul a few years ago.
> The husband worked for an oil firm.
> The flat was <I><very bloody big> palatial </very bloody big></I>.
> I don't know the exact square metreage, but it was comparable to
> lobby areas of large, city skyscrapers. One of the waiting rooms had
> the same floor space as my entire house.
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> Selçuk wrote in message ...
> >
> > > > population of more than 12 million) requires this. Not always this much • high but
> > > > generally at least 6 storeys. And always smaller than what you require
> > > > (generally 90-100 m2) if you don't want yo pay tremendous amount hiring • price. I
> > >
> >
> > > ObSomething: You get 100 m2 at a reasonable price? wow. We only get at
> > > most 20 m2 affordable.... and then you have a spacy apartment/room :)
> >
> > Affordable at least considering the larger ones having three regular rooms
> > + a larger living room (90-100 m2 ones having only 2 rooms + a living • room).
> > By the way, me and my wife are both engineers, earning above avarage, to
> > vmake it clear the word 'affordable' much ..:-(
> >
> > When I was a student, only affordible thing was only one room of an again
> > 100m2 apartment, which I shared with two other guys..:-)
> >
> > > And our entire country only seats 16 mil, over an area, which I
> > > _think_ is slightly larger than Istanbul (400 * 600 km, or something
> > > like that)
> >
> >
> > Uhm,.. did you see the film Water World?..:-D Sorry, I can't stand.
> >
> > Selçuk
> >
> >
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| (...) Do the US even have a minimum wage? I thought they de-regulated... As far as our minimum wage is concerned, it's somewhere on the order of $1000-1500 or so. And not too shabby at that, compared to some of our neighbours. (...) Well - for the (...) (25 years ago, 4-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) cause. (...) your Things may have changed, but when I was there, oh 5 years ago or so, I was quite impressed. There were many things which put Istanbul in a higher league than many cities I have visited. (Visited being the operative word, as (...) (25 years ago, 5-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| I visited an ex-pat family on the east side of Istanbul a few years ago. The husband worked for an oil firm. The flat was <I><very bloody big> palatial </very bloody big></I>. I don't know the exact square metreage, but it was comparable to lobby (...) (25 years ago, 3-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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