The Pound - Is it me, or am I crazy?

and what is the continental mainland? It is one big island.

 

An island...that's really close to the European mainland. So how does that make things more expensive?

 

Ask him about the price of lettuce though, or even a bottle of water ;-)

 

No it's not, islands have to be either sub-continental or be completely detached in oceanic locations.

Not sure how much lettuce and water costs there. I doubt it's considerably more than here though, it's a very touristy and popular place.

 

No it doesn't. Island is defined as land surrounded by Water, which your country is.

http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/island?q=island

 

My "Island" has more people, and shipping is cheap in bulk:lol:
Argument Un-nullified.
Just like shipping to the individual Florida keys/Alaskan Aleutian islands is expensive.

And you don't make more than us per capita. Pound seems stronger too because the general public relates 1 pound or euro, to 1 dollar. When in reality, its not linear.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)_per_capita

I'ts cute that you think that though:clap:

 

Hes not talking about GDP. He's talking about average wage per person - thats why he said "earn more"

 

Still the avg. wage in the USA is $41,673/ £27,240, for the UK $34,879/ £22,800. So matter what blah, blah he was saying, it was wrong. Not that 6kish$ matters anyways.

My previous statement was more about purchase price parity. Albeit another reason why things in the UK are expensive.

 

I wasnt saying he was correct. I didnt check it.

But your UK stat is low IMO

edit:

quick googling:

 

I wasn't implying it. It just seemed silly with what he was saying. Not with what you were saying.

 

I looked all around the internets, and the highest stat I could find for the UK was $36,000, so well say for the sake of error, 36k. He was still way wrong. But as an USA citizen I see stuff like that lobbed around the internet alot. I used to think it was true because the media said it too. Until I looked it up.

The reason your stat looks big is because that's the avg. wage for full time employees in the UK, not the avg. wage. That's why your figure tends to be higher.