Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/05/19

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Subject: [Leica] working & earning & lifetsyle
From: richard at richardmanphoto.com (Richard Man)
Date: Sat, 19 May 2012 13:20:47 -0700
References: <CBD42C32.117B5%manolito@videotron.ca> <CBD433A0.144A0%chris@chriscrawfordphoto.com> <CAFuU78fr0hf43F+7jPyQhDJ4bEpavCVi3Q=r4BVy1FPiy4dXAQ@mail.gmail.com> <CA+yJO1BYPYKXm6bVGqo+WCEn3o=XV9N7N6Tfs8=z2z2iRJLJEw@mail.gmail.com> <CAJ4y7gwxk6J4KX4zqrr9fCkb+JiHNTX5boAU8mNTyRmSo6s75g@mail.gmail.com> <1E801CA0-C660-46B5-AA8F-D0DAC3D80037@mac.com> <CAF8hL-Hx48r3QsQwpUV7UOJbXAoAOuw30osvy7SY-UR7tqdfDQ@mail.gmail.com> <0C6B5287-F564-4788-A7F3-E7036A057AA3@usjet.net>

Heee hee, I plead the Fifth.

Could be the German too, they are one of the few European countries with
growing GDP! :-)

On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 1:15 PM, Robert Meier <robertmeier at usjet.net> 
wrote:

> Did you mean a 'tectonic shift'?
>
> On May 19, 2012, at 3:09 PM, Richard Man wrote:
>
> > As someone who grew up in the government projects in Hong Kong, then
> "made
> > it" and bought a house in Palo Alto, but now hit with the financial
> > fallout, plus having one kid in college and one kid entering college in a
> > year or so, I can fully understand Philip and Chris' plight. Did I work
> my
> > arse off to get to where I was? Yes. Do I see the same problems that they
> > allude to? Yes.
> >
> > What I see is a system increasingly deck against the Little Guys, but my
> > rant is only suitable for the Forum. Yes, the opportunities are still out
> > there - for my children's sake, I sure hope that it is true. But one
> should
> > not think that the situation is the same as even 5 years ago. Times have
> > changed. A nothing 3 bedroom house in Vancouver can fetch over 1.3
> million
> > dollars, mostly because of all the rich money from China. How would you
> > like to be growing up in Vancouver and then knowing that there is no way
> > you can stay there? Same thing is happening in the Silicon Valley (and
> have
> > been happening since I moved here ~20 years ago). We are seeing a
> Teutonic
> > shift, just that it's not affecting people in "other countries," but
> right
> > here in USA, and not limited to a particular race or geographic regions.
> >
> >
> > --
> > // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com>
> >
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-- 
// richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com>


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