Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/05/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com>