I guess I see what you mean. Funny thing about the US, $11 an hour can be good or bad. My brother was living in Oakland, California back until about 2005. You couldn't live any decent kind of life there on any less than than about $20 an hour. I visited him there once about 2002 and gave a bum a dollar to ride the BART train home from work. That bum was a welder making $18 an hour. I told him that if he was living in Detroit he'd be driving a Cadillac.

My brother left Detroit to go to Oakland. In Detroit if you made $20 you lived like a fucking king.