Do you guys reckon its better to be in the top few percent in developing country, or to be Joe Average in a first world nation.
I am talking in terms of living standards, comfort, opportunities ect.
Pros and Cons.
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better to be, i think, is being a good human being (in varied familial and social roles), an excellent student, an expert worker, a conscientious citizen, all of which is possible in either environments, although unfortunaley there might be a social system in either environment, that may not grant a societal milieu which allows for this normal, decent, sophisticated character and personality. & then, it becomes an issue of the personal integrity and affinity with one's ideals, and convictions. therefore, being in an environment where the unspoken yet understood "best practices", contract and its laws are accepcted and followed, that is where one ought to be.
perfection, often is a work in progress. be it in a so called developed country or a not developed country, depending on how u use the term developed.
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Right. Dushwari if you are not going to answer the man's question don't bother posting. Kapish?
Now on to your question. Depends what you want. If you are the top 1 or 2% in a developing country you are defacto part of the top 15% in any developed country. That means you can travel first class, you get access to the money orientated stuff but if you live in a developing country you get the ego boost that comes with it.
If you are part of the elite of a developing country, you already have a it made and you need not worry about anything.
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What CM said
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So developing wins it. That is what I am leaning too.
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I mean looking at current ER, £20,000 per annum doesnt make for a great life here, barely surviving, but 2.2 million rupees probably puts someone in the top 5% of Pakistan by income per annum, right?
And the living standards would reflect that?
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As long as the developing country is relatively free and free of wars, I would have to say being rich in a third world country is better than being average in a first world place. Take Pakistan for example. If you have the money there, you can live like a king. My inlaws were upper middle class in Pakistan. They had it all--beautiful home, a team of servants (like they even had a special woman to hand wash their underwear!), kids in private schools with private tutoring, cars, even their food was fancy. They moved to the west, where they are pretty average. What does that mean? Month to month living, a mortgage they need help with, no domestic help, kids at public schools, and shopping for clothes at Sears and Walmart. The lifestyle of a typical doctor or small business owner here in the US was not even close to the lifestyle they had in Pakistan. My cousin was in a similar situation, having emigrated to Canada. Her kids hated their lifestyle drop so much, they forced the parents to go back.
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That is understandable. How much monthly income would someone require to have a fancy house, a cook, a driver or 2 (shift work there), someone to do your grocery shopping ect.
And to put say 2 kids into excellent english medium/CIBE schools.
100,000 rp/month?
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In Pakistan, from what I've heard from relatives, if you already have your house built, if you can make Rs. 30,000-40,000 a month, you pretty much can live the good life (upper middle class), with the kids at top schools. 100,000 a month would be wild. The servants are dirt cheap. You can get a team of servants for less than 5,000 a month (and we're talking cook, driver, guard, housekeeper, toilet cleaner and dhobi). The biggest expense is making your own home, which is why most peope live in combined family systems. For a large house in an exclusive colony, expect to pay anywhere from $75,000 to $100,000 (American dollars).
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Some crazy ass ****e
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What's a dhobi? I've never heard that term.
What is one is content to rent an apartment in a top area of Lahore/Karachi/Islamabad, what would that cost a month?
So 100,000/month is "wild" income?
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What is one is content to rent an apartment in a top area of Lahore/Karachi/Islamabad, what would that cost a month?
So 100,000/month is "wild" income?
a dhobi is a laundry men, they wash cloths by hand, sually in ghats in indian for example. they are poor and low caste people.
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:k:
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I am talking in terms of living standards, comfort, opportunities ect.
Pros and Cons.
better for what? to prove your immorality to the world? ok i would say as you did that being among the richest in develooping surely is best to prove your high imorality, with slaves working for lazy a$$ ....
.....but if you lean towards being a good human being with principles read what dushwari says...and put your brain at work to understand it, unlike some posters who prefer to be lazy brained people
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i mean in terms of money and privillages
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^^^
They are the terms I was looking at Irfan.
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I think both have respective have pros and cons but as far as the life styles, growth prospects, exposure are concerned, living in the already developed country would prove to be more useful in the longer run
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What is one is content to rent an apartment in a top area of Lahore/Karachi/Islamabad, what would that cost a month?
So 100,000/month is "wild" income?
No its not in the field I work in, last time I was in Pak I was offered 220,000 pm but I refused. because 39% of it would have been paying in taxes for no benefits at all.
Oilfield Zindabad.
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*Sher kee ek din kee zindagi, Geedar kee sau saal kee umar say behtar hay. *