"Sloopy" > wrote in message
...
> In article >,
> "M@ster" > wrote:
>
> > Fyi, having lived for five yeras in the US and having grown up in Italy
> > (where all my family resides) I can tell you that the average italian
has a
> > better quality of life than the average american (enjoys better
vacations,
> > better food and lives in a nicer house). In fact, Italy (which is only
as
> > big as California) is the 6th richest country in the world.
>
> Based on what?
>
> Based on the purchasing power of the per capita income of its citizens
> (the only sensible way to measure that), the United States is third,
> behind Luxembourg and Norway. Italy is 25th.

I am not considering rich people (they higher the average of course),
therefore you can't make it on a per capita basis. We are considering only
middle class.