Ultraman

原帖由 Toppy 於 2009-1-2 20:57 發表
If you live in the "country-side" long enough, it is easy to lose focus.

You'd think, oh all the white people in North America are like that, all the jobs are all like that, the economy is like that and etc. ...

When, in fact, this place is nothing compared to New York city, Chicago, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, London, Paris and other REAL world-class city.

Or maybe you came to Canada at a very young age, you didn't know how good Hong Kong was and still is.

I won't compare countries I'm not familiar about. However, in which way(s) you think HK is still good or better than here?
May I quote some facts, there are people jumped down from the top of buildings and killed themselves from time to time because of "poor" (due to false investment or bankruptcy or whatever); yet did/how many similar situations happened here?

Hyde

原帖由 fibbi 於 2009-1-2 18:17 發表


I would agree w/ you this time...
That's HK standard.

Here, I would say getting 200K annually considered as rich...simply because 200K gross income = $120K or $130K net?

if u earn that amount in canada, you can't be consider rich. you can at best be well off. just the tax alone cost you 70-80k.  which is 1/5th of an average apartment.   
the tax is also a reason why people rather earn "enough"

to equal earning of 1m in HK, you gotta be pulling at least 350k here in canada.  but with the amount of work u do to earn that much here, you could be earning 2m in hk already.

here, you have to work twice as hard and earn half as much.

Hyde

原帖由 Ultraman 於 2009-1-3 00:53 發表

I won't compare countries I'm not familiar about. However, in which way(s) you think HK is still good or better than here?
May I quote some facts, there are people jumped down from the top of buildin ...

suicides are almost never reported in the canadian media, that's why you hardly hear any.

ricrick

yes.. Canadian media only report murder

Catpiano

$200K income is kind of rich to me  and most peopel  already la... (per head)

Sigh ..  who doesn't want to make $200K plus .. like those doctor/dentist/engineers/broker/lawyer etc ar ..  

Too bad . I picked to be lazy at school ...  and I am a low risk guy ..  

As long as I am saftify  .. buy the house I want .. buy the car I want .. I am happy ..  I dont really need to be rich ..  he he

Ultraman

OK thanks. My previous example was not appropriate then. ;b

siumaibb

If you can stop working now and still can keep up your living standard until the day you die, then you are rich

ricrick

原帖由 siumaibb 於 2009-1-3 13:43 發表
If you can stop working now and still can keep up your living standard until the day you die, then you are rich

有幾千萬係銀行收息，有七八間樓收租我想都ok

tiffiant

do you spend more than your income?

that's probably super poor