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

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Subject: [Leica] working & earning & lifetsyle
From: robertmeier at usjet.net (Robert Meier)
Date: Sat, 19 May 2012 15:28:26 -0500 (CDT)
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>

Yes, their GDP is growing because they are selling all their products to the 
other euro countries.


On May 19, 2012, at 3:15 PM, Robert Meier 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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