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We have it bad! But then.....
My daughter-in-law is from the Philippines. My son met her in Kuwait where she had been working for 12 years. She was living in a "room" with 7 or 8 other ladies to cut down on high rent. They slept on pallets, and sometimes in shifts. She sent money to her parents every month, she put her brother AND then her sister through school, and she bought a piece of property that she was paying on.
In a conversation we were having one day, I asked how much in wages she was making and she replied in Kuwaiti Dinars on a weekly basis. My son then said, "That's $75 (Count them Seventy Five) dollars A WEEK.
The annual income in the Philippines is 55,000 pesos a year, or about $5000 USD.
Yeah! I've got it rough!
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