The Number One Son Report

Jul. 25, 2007 - Musings on the Market

Number One Son reports:

"The back streets are all full of tiny little store fronts cheek by jowl all along the street. They are each only about 15 square feet! There are lIttle tiny lumberyards with outlets, wiring, switches, just what you need for home repairs. There are clothing stores, little produce stores that look like the produce section teleported out of Lowe's, even a cobbler of handmade fine shoes. A lot of the things that we buy at the big box retailers are bought here at separate little stores. They have huge electronics malls with tons of little stores that specialize in one or two aspects of electronics. If you ask a proprietor for something they don't have, they run and buy it from their competitor at wholesale then bring it back and sell it to you. There's so much opportunity to start up a small business here. One disadvantage, though, is that you don't often see the high end stuff at these little retailers; they don't sell enough to keep it in stock. Then again, now that I think about it I see the same thing at home. I certainly can't find professional editing software at Best Buy. Here, though, even the upper midrange stuff is a little hard to find."

"The market here has discovered how to fake an iPod. There are fakes all over the place. The only recognizable difference I can see is that the fakes have a standard usb port instead of the proprietary one."

"I apologize about not sending more pictures, I have been very busy. I'll try to take and send more this month! I hope today is not as busy - I literally haven't had time to eat lately!"

At this point, the taxi pulled up to the office and he said, "I'm not sure I want to ride with that driver again. In the 15 minutes it took to get here, she almost hit two bicyclists!"

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Our report of the adventures of our homeschool high schooler working and living in Asia this summer, We are using psuedonyms although many of you will know who we are, because his host country is not free and we do not wish to endanger those he is working and living with. Please feel free to comment and sign your name, just do not use our names.

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