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| (...) high but (...) price. I (...) 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 (...) (26 years ago, 3-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) errr Well, I think I started once, anyway. It was a bit boring tho, especially on a simple TV. And color me stupid, but I don't think I get the reference :P Jasper (26 years ago, 3-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| Jasper Janssen wrote in message <36666ec3.58183035@l...et.com>... (...) What colour is that? I imagine it a sort of pasty green colour, like translucent slime without the highlights. But I could be wrong. Moz (26 years ago, 3-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 (...) (26 years ago, 3-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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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) (...) (26 years ago, 4-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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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 (...) (26 years ago, 4-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) Nah, Larry and his friends haven't gotten all of their insidious wishes yet. :) (26 years ago, 4-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) Something like that. Jasper (26 years ago, 5-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 (...) (26 years ago, 5-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) Well, I guess it makes me feel better to know I'm a millionaire in at least one country. :) (26 years ago, 5-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) Yeah, just think. If we abolish the minimum wage then we'll get to look forward to all these service-oriented jobs paying slave wages. Then we can enjoy pimply-faced McDonald's style service anywhere! :) (26 years ago, 5-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) Well that's certainly one possible outcome if nothing else was changed, but I rather doubt it. Most Mickey Dee's I see seem to be offering well above minimum to start. One near my apt in CO was offering 9 an hour to start, 10 if you could work (...) (26 years ago, 6-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) This was the exactly the same feeling for Robin and Diane Sathner (two fellow RTL'ers from Canada), when I met them in Istanbul. They were instant millionaires just after exchanging a 100 USD at airport's change office...:-D Selçuk (26 years ago, 6-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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