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Indeed. In India way back in 1989 I was talking with a local church worker. We were comparing average incomes and prices with the UK. When I mentioned approximately what a typical UK wage would be in rupees the man was stunned at the level of...
Molly Cassidy (posting above) hit a nail on the head!
I lived 5 years in the USA. Left. The bottom line there was, and still is, the mighty dollar.
Why (above a certain threshold of course ) would one expect increasing GDP to linearly...
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i guess the strongest advocacy I can give of Spain….
I am currently looking for somewhere to live and settle. I have been nomadic for 4 years and maybe will be for another 2 years but it can’t go on forever.
I have about 10 key criteria...
... is probably a useful place to start, and then think about about why?
There is the distribution of gross measures (eg GNP) between people - ie equality. The Gini coefficient is a common measure. Then there are other measures such as the Big...
Spain is a beautiful country, but not all parts are equal. There are very rich parts and very poor parts, and even parts that want to become independent. The politics and police can still be corrupt, especially at a local level. Unemployment is...
Having lived in Spain for 8 months last year, I think it's much more than just income. What I see in a lot of Spain is an inclusive culture, not dominated by income and expenditure, but by family and community. So, in the small town where I...
Barcelos was having a huge May 1 celebration when we passed through. There was a major unveiling of a sculpture titled Peregrina the following day—very big event. We weren’t there, so I lifted a picture from the news coverage. I’ll be interested...
That’s very cool because Barcelos didn’t feel like a pilgrim town. I was not as overjoyed as that statue is when I walked into Barcelos lol. I had blisters, lost the tips of my poles, walked the wrong way for several miles just before Barcelos...
Thanks for posting this. In light of some of the conversations we’ve been having here recently, this is quite interesting to me. A statue like this serves to further ‘pilgrimify’ or ‘francesify’ the CP and this in turn will continue its recent...
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