On Tue, 24 Jun 2014 08:21:12 +0100, Tim Watts wrote:

Why SHOULD somebody pay you twice the fair market rate for the same
quality of work? Just because you happen to have been born in one
particular corner of one particular continent

that has a much higher cost of living than the other corner.

I was assuming that the person taking your job would be living in the
same area as you...

If you come from the *general* baltic region in 2000 odd, you come from
a country where a litre of beer is 50p and everything else is
correspondingly as cheap.

Have you ever been to any of the accession states? Yes, some things are
cheaper - but no WAY are they anywhere NEAR cheaper-enough to compensate
for the local salaries.

B'sides, if you're living and working in the UK, it's kinda difficult to
pop to the corner shop for a litre of 50p beer. Unless, of course, that
corner shop happens to be in the UK selling 50p beer. In which case, why
can't anybody else also go there?

As you area short term migrant, you can live with bunking up in a doss
house with 10 of your mates on the cheap whilst saving your dosh for a
greater cause (and it does apply outwards, think Auf Weidersein Pet"
(sp).

Whereas, of course, if you're "indigenous" you have a god-given right to
live in comfort without having to do more than the _absolute_ bare
minimum to earn it?