BF>> About the same as here then.

 SH> It looks like it although the USD amount is only one variable.  What you
 SH> can buy with it is another.

A l milk cost about $1 here.

 BF>> In Bulgaria they only make about $180 per month.

 SH> That's probably higher than it was in the Communist days.:-)

But there is still not much to buy except cloths.

 BF>> 12 governments in the past 14 years since they became free from
 BF>> the communists and who can make a difference in one year?

 SH> Do politicians make much of a difference at all?

So true.

 SH> At least they had another room to move to.

:-)


 SH> Incidentally, an abbatoir is a slaughterhouse with Government inspectors.
 SH> I also corrected some spelling mistakes in your long note.

The word didn't exist in my Eng-Swe dictionary and I know I'm a louse speller
but I'm trying though...

//Bj”rn

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