Santo Domingo - The world's 126th most expensive city.

NALs

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I wonder what NALs has to say about this survey which doesn't have the barrio of Greenwich, CT making the list?

It's simply a list.

Have you been to Greenwich? If so, you would have known that:

1. The town is twice as big as Manhattan and has NO poor areas whatsoever - thus calling it a "barrio" is a loonnggg stretch!

2. Average single family properties are worth around $2 million.

3. It's a desirable locale, known among the more "important" social circles which controls and governs much of the world.

4. It's main drag (Greenwich Avenue) is a collection of some of the most expensive restaurants, shops, etc anywhere. The extremely upscale strip is often nicknamed "the Rodeo Drive of the east coast."

That along with New Canaan, Darien, Westport, and a few other towns makes Fairfield County the second wealthiest in the U.S. and by default, among the wealthiest places on earth.

Stamford, CT is actually the third most important hub of fortune 500 companies in the U.S. It's the most important city most Americans have never heard of. Purdue, UBS North America (which has the largest private trading floor in the world at the moment), General Electric, Pitney Bowes, Xerox, and soon Royal Bank of Scotland among others are headquartered in Stamford.

These places are a bubble of near perfection, even by U.S. standards.

But, since it did not made it to "the list", I guess it must not be true. :tired:

-NALs
 

aegap

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this survey seem to focus on the standard of leaving of your typical manager/white collar worker. ..its not only about whether the place is expensive; ..the worst the place the more you have to compensate your white collar employee to get them to work for you there.
 

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Mercer Human Resource Consulting ??

Mercer Human Resource Consulting, who are they??? I'll wait for a more reputable resource, i.e. the World Bank, IMF, United Nations....

-Helpmann :rolleyes:
 

aegap

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They're very good at what they do

Mercer Human Resource Consulting


Human interest
Mercer Human Resource Consulting takes up the mantle of human resources as its broad mission. Under this umbrella, the firm offers a range of services including retirement, health and group, compensation, employee benefits, communication and human capital strategy consulting. It also specializes in administration outsourcing and investment consulting. The firm is one of several owned by Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc. (MMC) and one of four firms in Mercer Inc., which has about 16,000 employees in 40 countries.
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Mercer Human Resource Consulting used to be known as William M. Mercer, Incorporated, but parent company MMC changed the firm's name in April 2002 in an effort to brand its consulting companies more consistently. Mercer Investment Consulting, Inc., the firm's SEC-registered U.S. investment advisory practice, is a wholly owned subsidiary. MMC has approximately 60,000 employees in more than 100 countries.

Unlike the World Bank, IMF, United Nation etc., ...Mercer Human Resources actually has to deliver ..

..IFCA has hired them ...so far it has delivered:


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Gaetan Bucher anunció la designación del señor Patrick Meynial como su Principal Oficial Operativo, y al señor Jeremy Stone como Jefe de Seguridad [(Jeremy Stone is a former Chief Inspector of the Hong Kong police, Head of Security Operations at the IMF headquarter in Washington D.C.)]. Ambos serán designados como ejecutivos de la empresa con efecto inmediato, y comenzarán a cumplir sus responsabilidades en el mes de mayo, 2006. El señor Patrick Meynial, ciudadano francés y nuevo Principal Oficial Operativo [(Chief Operating Officer)], llega al país después de su éxito como socio gerente general de la firma Booz Allen Hamilton en Santiago de Chile. En el pasado ha sido socio de A. T. Kearney en Chicago y SPA/Mercer Management Consulting en París.
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