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- From: mousseau@paun02.NOHOST.NODOMAIN (Normand Mousseau)
- Newsgroups: sci.econ
- Subject: Re: US as No. 1 (3 data books)
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- Date: 27 Jan 93 21:08:25 GMT
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- In article <C1HpGI.GI8@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>, bigger@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Marcel Bigger) writes:
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- |> In article <rdavis.728008225@connie.de.convex.com> rdavis@convex.com (Ray Davis) writes:
- |> >Adrian.Waterworth@newcastle.ac.uk (Adrian Waterworth) writes:
- |> >
- |> >>As for the availability of
- |> >>different goods and services, I find it hard to believe that the range
- |> >>of products available in the US is so much greater than those in any
- |> >>other developed nation.
- |> >
- |> >Really it is. You wouldn't believe how much more the selection
- |> >and variety is in most areas of merchandise. I know it's hard
- |> >to believe, but if you grew up in the states and find yourself
- |> >living elsewhere, you wonder how folks can put up with so little
- |> >choice and such crap quality (in *some* cases - not all!).
- |> >
- |>
- |> I enjoy this discussion. I can be so bloody chavinistic.
- |> My personal experience on the selection of merchandise between
- |> the US and Switzerland is that the range of products available
- |> in the US is greater; however, the range of QUALITY products is
- |> about the same. And it seems that products and services with
- |> a decent quality cost more in the US than in Switzerland.
- |> Moreover, sometimes the US does not offer any products and services
- |> of quality in some areas (e.g. transportation, banking, bread baking, ...)
- |> as does Switzerland.
- |>
- |> Cheers
- |> Marcel W. Bigger
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- I would agree with you. Here in mid-Michigan it is simply impossible
- to find good bread, good meat cut, good restaurants etc. Oh, there is
- a large choice of restaurants but none of them with even raisonnable
- quality. And let's not talk about plays or concerts. And there are about 250 000 people living around.
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- In the town where I come from ,in Quebec, I can find at least half
- a dozen very good restaurants for a population of 25 000 people.
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- The U.S. is a raisonnable country to live in, however, I would not
- give them a number 1 everywhere...
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- Normand Mousseau
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