Rate of Exchange

I was talking to Samuel the other day and he told me that he's been having trouble convincing his wife that life has been hard for him since he moved to the US.

For example, he recently sent her nearly his whole paycheck from his job as a dishwasher, which was around four hundred dollars.  While that amount of money will go further in different places in this country, it's still not a lot for two weeks worth of work.  However, due to the exchange rate, his wife received nearly sixty thousand naira.  According to Samuel, ₦60,000 is enough to live very comfortably for a month in Nigeria.  From his wife's perspective, he's making enough as a dishwasher to pay for himself and his family back home, so life in America must be easy.

I do appreciate his frustration, but I told him that since the goal is to reunite him with his family, perhaps the best response is to simply wait for his wife to experience life in the US to gain the necessary perspective.  Still, I understand that it hurts when your efforts aren't appreciated.