Stop it!

[ramchop]

In the 3 short months I've been here the falling Yen and the rising $NZ has seen the numbers change from 55yen/1$NZ to 69yen/1$NZ.

Can an economist-type please reassure me that by the time my 2 years are up it won't be any worse than this. Or will I end up earning less here than I do at home?

[Big Booger]

ur gonna be a broke ass before long ramchop.
hehehe
BB

It'll be like 120 yen to 1$ NZ
BB

[Taro Toporific]

In the 3 short months I've been here the falling Yen and the rising $NZ has seen the numbers change from 55yen/1$NZ to 69yen/1$NZ.

Can an economist-type please reassure me that by the time my 2 years are up it won't be any worse than this. Or will I end up earning less here than I do at home?

Yep, you'll be earning less in 2 years, but you can soak all of Japan's charming ambiance and concrete beauty.

a recent surveyin key countries, conducted by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, which also solicited opinions from experts .. Some also noted that Japanese towns are untidy and not very charming.
- - - The Asahi Shimbun, Feb. 4 Opinion, Editorial

MACRO-ECONOMICALLY SPEAKING...
Face it.
NZ has doing a lot things right in the past 10 years in terms of deregulation, etc.]Personal-MICRO-ECONOMICALLY SPEAKING...[/b]I have been toying with idea of joining my friends in Southland in the IT biz.

[ramchop]

Personal-MICRO-ECONOMICALLY SPEAKING...I have been toying with idea of joining my friends in Southland in the IT biz.

Invercargill? What would want to go there for? It's cold there, and it's a windy rip-right-through-you cold, not a freeze-you-slowly sort of a cold that you get here. Hope you like muttonbird.

There's a reason that you tend to meet so many Southlanders outside of Southland.

[Taro Toporific]

Personal-MICRO-ECONOMICALLY SPEAKING...I have been toying with idea of joining my friends in Southland in the IT biz.

Invercargill? What would want to go there for? It's cold there, and it's a windy rip-right-through-you cold, not a

Hell, Tokyo is the TROPICS as far as I'm concerned. Compared to my hometowns of Chicago and Montreal, I sweat here.

I guess I share the Japanese fascination with penguins.

[ramchop]

I guess I share the Japanese fascination with penguins.

What? You mean they don't have them up here? So what do the local polar bears eat?

[Taro Toporific]

I guess I share the Japanese fascination with penguins.

What? You mean they don't have them up here? So what do the local polar bears eat?

PEOPLE! That's what the polar bears eat. YUM!

[Steve Bildermann]

A polar bear is a rectangular bear after a coordinate transform.