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Kuros
Joined: 27 Apr 2004
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That map is misleading. Its based on nominal currency values, and thus does not account for reduced costs of living.
Here's a new map that accounts for purchase power parity. Note that Korea has now been elevated to being the economic equal of New York state.
Unless you really think the world's second-most nuclear power has the economic might of New Jersey. |
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Hanson
Joined: 20 Oct 2004
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| Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2008 7:02 pm Post subject: |
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| Kuros wrote: |
That map is misleading. Its based on nominal currency values, and thus does not account for reduced costs of living.
Here's a new map that accounts for purchase power parity. Note that Korea has now been elevated to being the economic equal of New York state.
Unless you really think the world's second-most nuclear power has the economic might of New Jersey. |
That's the most interesting thing I've seen so far this year - I could stare at it for hours. |
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Stoakley
Joined: 20 Nov 2007
Location: Florea
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Being a Floridian I can assure you that both Korea and Florida have a slew of immigrants/aliens (legal and illegal) that can't speak the "official" language of the adopted homeland and that it should be more like their original homeland.
Cheers,
Stoakley |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2008 8:55 pm Post subject: |
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| Stoakley wrote: |
| Being a Floridian I can assure you that both Korea and Florida have a slew of immigrants/aliens (legal and illegal) that can't speak the "official" language of the adopted homeland |
Of the ONE percent of non-Koreans in Korea only a tiny fraction of that consider this an 'adopted homeland' or anything approaching a facsimile. Take away the soldiers, the wanna-go-back migrant industrial workers and the two-years-or-less visiting ESLers and it's surely 0.5% or less.
Unless by 'a slew' you refer to Itaewon or Dave's, then yeah.  |
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Gopher
Joined: 04 Jun 2005
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Let us not forget the humidity.
I reviewed your map, Kuros. I had no idea things were so bad in Croatia, Sri Lanka, and Turmenistan... |
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thepeel
Joined: 08 Aug 2004
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| Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2008 9:18 pm Post subject: |
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It has Italy or Canada as being similar to California at PPP.
According to the CIA factbook (figures 2007)
Italy
GDP (purchasing power parity):
$1.8 trillion (2007 est.)
Canada
GDP (purchasing power parity):
$1.274 trillion (2007 est.)
And according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis
California
$1,622,116 (2005 est.)
Quite the spread, no? |
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Smee
Joined: 24 Dec 2004
Location: Jeollanam-do
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| Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2008 10:19 pm Post subject: |
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It'd be better to do it per capita.
The orignal map is neat, but it's pretty misleading when you have Rhode Island = Vietnam. |
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chris_J2
Joined: 17 Apr 2006
Location: From Brisbane, Au.
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| Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2008 10:54 pm Post subject: Parity Map |
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Australia has disappeared from the purchase power parity map, & has been replaced with Sweden for Ohio. Maybe they confused it with Austria?
Florida & South Korea both have hurricanes / typhoons, btw. |
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whatever
Joined: 11 Jun 2006
Location: Korea: More fun than jail.
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| Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2008 11:32 pm Post subject: |
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| Both Korea and Florida have more than their share of reptiles. |
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JMO
Joined: 18 Jul 2006
Location: Daegu
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| Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2008 11:34 pm Post subject: |
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| Interesting..Ireland is smaller than Indiana, population wise and area wise. Also I always heard that California had the 5th largest economy in the world..I kinda figured it would have a much larger economy than Canada or Italy. |
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Justin Hale
Joined: 24 Nov 2007
Location: the Straight Talk Express
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So, the ROK = NY with only 38% of the population? Quite a shock - I was under the impression Koreans were the smartest race on Earth.
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| Interesting..Ireland is smaller than Indiana, population wise and area wise. Also I always heard that California had the 5th largest economy in the world..I kinda figured it would have a much larger economy than Canada or Italy. |
10th in 2005
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_California |
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Funky Chunk
Joined: 29 Sep 2007
Location: Haebangchon, Seoul
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Mosquitoes the size of dogs that always manage to get into your room and bite you in the middle of the night.
Also men who stare at you like they've never seen a woman before. In Tampa it's the Mexicans, and here it's the Pakis. They sure know how to make a girl feel special! |
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Stoakley
Joined: 20 Nov 2007
Location: Florea
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| Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 3:45 am Post subject: |
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| VanIslander wrote: |
| Stoakley wrote: |
| Being a Floridian I can assure you that both Korea and Florida have a slew of immigrants/aliens (legal and illegal) that can't speak the "official" language of the adopted homeland |
Of the ONE percent of non-Koreans in Korea only a tiny fraction of that consider this an 'adopted homeland' or anything approaching a facsimile. Take away the soldiers, the wanna-go-back migrant industrial workers and the two-years-or-less visiting ESLers and it's surely 0.5% or less.
Unless by 'a slew' you refer to Itaewon or Dave's, then yeah. |
Ok...you're right. "A slew of alien residents residing in the <respective> foreign land". Better?
Cheers,
Stoakley |
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