Finally, took the plunge to return to India.
It was a long pending dilema where we were evaluating a 100 reasons to return to India and another 100 reasons to Not to return to India.Few Positives (as I saw) in India:
- Closer to Indian culture and everything Indian
- Closer to relatives. Family bonding improves.
- Participate in all family events/ festivals
- Be closer and try to contribute back to Indian society
Few Negatives (as I saw) in India:
- Bangalore specific: roads are bad, traffic is pathetic, public transport is non-existent and neighbourhood community life does not exist. Your family cannot step out without you driving around.
- Outside life does not exist in India for family. Of course, this can be overcome by staying in a self sustained apartment complex
- Things do not happen as seamless as abroad. 100% of time is spent between office work and personal life. In India, we spend a lot of additional time to push things (EB, phone...)
- Schools - Mid term Admission is a pain. Fees is exorbitant and quality is not guaranteed. U need to start in the same place from LKG to get into good schools.
Factors that helped me overcome/Ignore the negatives:
- Bangalore specific - Stay close to office (whitefield in my case), have a car for family and drive them around even for nearby shops.
- Schools - Pay the exorbitant fees and be satisfied with what you get
- Stay in an apartment complex where there are people to take care of anything and everything for which you normally will be spending lots of time shuttling to government agencies. Your family also will have lots of people to interact with.
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