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To: Snowshoe who wrote (41090)	11/7/2003 10:11:14 AM
From: RealMuLan	Respond to of 74559

right, the charge is paid by your guys, not Chinese. That is really not my concern. the title "More Workers Flock To Cities as 'Aunties'" should be changed into "more farmers ...". Although there are some unemployed workers from other cities go to big cities like Shanghai or Beijing to be housekeeper, but the Majority of housekeepers are from the countryside/rural areas. So they are NOT workers, but farmers.

To: Snowshoe who wrote (41090)	6/6/2004 11:41:13 AM
From: BubbaFred	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Domestic workers are very common all over Asia. It is shocking for North Americans. There, you can have a maid (to clean house and cook), gardener and maintenance, chauffer, etc. The cost is in the range of U$50 to U$150 a month. Live-in maids and maintenance persons also get free room and board. One of my acquaintances is from Malaysia who became US citizen and live here. His uncles and older brothers came to visit him, they all said something like "Wow, you have to do dishes and wash clothes and clean house yourself?", and of course they are happy to live in Malaysia and would not want to live in US. Besides, they have their own businesses there and they only pay 10% tax. Another friend, an American, taught at a university in Taiwan, and he lived in an apartment complex where the rent included a cook and daily house cleaning for less than rent only in US. That was some 20 years ago.