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Originally Posted by Gwen Morse
Reading what other people are posting  , I find these are surprisingly generous standards (said with *no* sarcasm)  . At least I do get sick and vacation time. No wonky points systems for me! |
Well, as I wrote quite a few posts ago, our system here is different. Very different. But, there ain't such thing as a free lunch.
Here in my town, the price for gasoline - 95UNI - the kind that my 10 year old Skoda car takes is:
1.32 (Euros / liter) = 6.61418944 U.S. dollars / US gallon
The price is including standard 20% Value Added Tax that we pay for ALL goods here.
And my salary is fraction of what I would earn in my position in USA, or, for example [West
]Germany.
So, I do not drive to work in blizzard. I take a bus ;-). Municipal transport is still surprisingly decent here.