Sorry, wendigo, yes, from that point of view I agree. Just wanted to say that it's not a fair comparison for touristic purposes.
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Not bad. Nice city, plenty of work. crappy winters however. Excellent transport system. and you can head to the hill and flick nose droppings at the politicians.122 Ottawa, CanadaComment
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I read recently that Indian companies are recruiting British Call Centre workers to go and work over there paying around 25% of what they'd get here. However, the cost of living is about an eight as much so in real terms they'll get paid twice as much (and they've got the weather).Comment
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India has won more beauty contents than almost any other country bar Venezuela, it's cheap, the weathers good and most people speak english.
Infact, it's so good a lot of peoples jobs have gone there already. :rollinComment
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