A small amount of perspective

So I was talking to a guy today whose combined family income (including his wife's income) is about $800 per month. That's pretty good for Laos, given that a large proportion of visa applicants measure their income in rice, teachers make something like $60 per month, and that the per capita income of Laos is somewhere between $300 and $1,000 (I don't really know where it is, exactly).

Anyway, with that $800 per month, they support themselves and their kid, his parents, her parents, and his grandparents, and they still manage to save $200 per month.

Sure, cost of living here is low, but damn....