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Re: Obama's win - good or bad for the US/the world?
Posted:
Nov 7, 2012 7:59 PM
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On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 5:19 PM, Robert Hansen wrote:
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> On Nov 7, 2012, at 4:30 PM, Paul Tanner wrote:
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> Think instead the glories of modern Norway and Scandinavia in general
> IF this country had the guts to go there:
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> I personally don't want an economy where one struggles to get by on 80k a
> year. This would be like me moving to NY (or CA) and living on the same
> salary I make in FL. Of course, my salary would be higher in NY (or CA). And
> maybe it would be much higher in Norway as well. There are millionaires and
> billionaires in Norway just like any place else. As a teacher though, you
> would struggle more in Norway than here.
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> Bob Hansen
In my messages ending with
"Re: US teachers are overworked and underpaid"
http://mathforum.org/kb/message.jspa?messageID=7904749
I already proved you wrong with the facts. (See the sub-thread in question, this message above the the preceding ones by me.)
And I also have the personal experience of teaching both in CA and FL, large cities in both places (no rural in one and urban in the other) and I was much better off in the state with the higher cost of living - very meaningfully more disposable income at the same level of experience.
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