Re:Ask HN: Why is Apple ripping of European users? 1€ ≠ 1$
by mjwalshe on Tuesday June 12, 2012 @08:46AM
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Not in the UK from it tech and engineeing jobs our pay is much lower compared to SV and housing costs a lot more. The only advatage we have is only paying 12% for NHS etc instead of 20%+ just for health insurance.
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Re:Ask HN: Why is Apple ripping of European users? 1€ ≠ 1$
by jakeonthemove on Tuesday June 12, 2012 @09:09AM
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I was talking more about the mainland - Germany, Netherlands and Belgium to be more specific... But you can't really compare anything with the Silicon Valley directly - IT and engineering jobs are present all over the US, and they pay less than SV companies and startups, too...
Re:Ask HN: Why is Apple ripping of European users? 1€ ≠ 1$
by mjwalshe on Tuesday June 12, 2012 @11:13AM
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well going from UK to Europe "Engineers" are MUCH MUCH Higher status jobs.
The wife of the Number 2 at BT labs (you know the place that desigend and built Colossus) once got asked what sort of cars her husband worked on :-(
And yes they did think he was a car mechanic.