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In article <C1HpGI.GI8@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>, bigger@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Marcel Bigger) writes:

|> In article <rdavis.728008225@connie.de.convex.com> rdavis@convex.com (Ray Davis) writes:
|> >Adrian.Waterworth@newcastle.ac.uk (Adrian Waterworth) writes:
|> >
|> >>As for the availability of
|> >>different goods and services, I find it hard to believe that the range
|> >>of products available in the US is so much greater than those in any
|> >>other developed nation.
|> >
|> >Really it is.  You wouldn't believe how much more the selection
|> >and variety is in most areas of merchandise.  I know it's hard
|> >to believe, but if you grew up in the states and find yourself
|> >living elsewhere, you wonder how folks can put up with so little
|> >choice and such crap quality (in *some* cases - not all!).
|> >
|> 
|> I enjoy this discussion. I can be so bloody chavinistic.
|> My personal experience on the selection of merchandise between
|> the US and Switzerland is that the range of products available
|> in the US is greater; however, the range of QUALITY products is
|> about the same. And it seems that products and services with
|> a decent quality cost more in the US than in Switzerland.
|> Moreover, sometimes the US does not offer any products and services
|> of quality in some areas (e.g. transportation, banking, bread baking, ...)
|> as does Switzerland.
|> 
|> Cheers
|> Marcel W. Bigger


	I would agree with you.  Here in mid-Michigan it is simply impossible
to find good bread, good meat cut, good restaurants etc.  Oh, there is
a large choice of restaurants but none of them with even raisonnable 
quality. And let's not talk about plays or concerts. And there are about 250 000 people living around. 

	In the town where I come from ,in Quebec, I can find at least half
a dozen very good restaurants for a population of 25 000 people. 

	The U.S. is a raisonnable country to live in, however, I would not
give them a number 1 everywhere...

	Normand Mousseau