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Originally Posted by aelle  It's an illusion. Salaries are related to cost of life, and rent, transportation, food and utilities are also very high in the West. You don't say where you are from, but I have lived in South East Asia and in my experience the middle class there has a higher purchasing power than the European middle class. |
Eastern Europe. But I'll have you know that wages like yours are unheard of here. 130,000 a year for a lawyer? The average official wage is about USD 500 a month where I'm from. And get this, gasoline is actually cheaper in the US than here. Although we have a thriving black market economy and a lot of times people get paid a large chunk of their wages off the books.
But since from what I've seen a nurse makes about 3,000 a month in the US, which I assume is a pretty low wage, him having 50,000 dollars and trying to make 36,000 a year, which is about 62% a year doesn't seem feasible, not without crazy risk, meaning he'd be likely to blow his account just like I did.