Just curious, has anyone here been there? What was your experience if so? Rob
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Just curious, has anyone here been there? What was your experience if so? Rob
I know sweetana has been there a couple of times, so I hope she sees your post.
Thank You, IL. RobQuote:
Originally Posted by iris lilies
Was in India in 1991 for 33 days. Have several friends who are Indian and travel back once or twice a year. Our trip was so long ago and during the First Gulf War that the experience was quite different from others traveling to India. The country ran out of gas so there was little traffic and accidents were few. Not the same now. We met few tourists due to the war. At that time, India has only started their enormous attempt to modernize. (We also traveled to England in the time of wooden train carriages, so we are not impressed the modernity of new English travel.)
I would not choose to go back. The pollution, the traffic, the industry, and all things American seem to be much more evident or just worse.
Friends who are going back to a family home often love it but some partners find it just too "much" to overcome and come back early. It is an overwhelming country and works (or doesnt) in strange ways.
My favorite overseas countries are Japan, Thailand, and France.
I loved .Thailand! I think everyone does.Quote:
Originally Posted by sweetana3
okay-----Warning: India food is slop. Just one spoonful makes me want to heave. Things don't get better from there. Hope that hopes you some. Thankk mee.
I love Indian food. I did a little bit of Indian cooking tonight even.Quote:
Originally Posted by littlebittybobby
Indian food here and in India are quite different. A month there was an experience I will never forget. I am happy we went but have no desire to go back. Not a place I would even consider for retirement. Equador would be a better option IMO.
Never ever visit a kitchen in India. But, with following all precautions, we did not get sick. We did become vegetarians very fast when I could not identify the bones left on my plate. But again this was 30 years ago.
Did find it fascinating to see whole rats being sold at the food market in Thailand. We were on a food tour so visited many markets.
I think Rob has watched the film “Best Exotic Marigold hotel” to get this idea about retiring in India.He wont really go there. I thought he was looking at places south of our United States border exclusively. Some version of Spanish is spoken there, a language with which he is familiar.
But really, in the end, Rob won’t go anywhere.
Rob, I have never been to India but my sister-in-law's brother moved his family there in the 1990's. They came back after 9-11 but moved back there permanently about five years ago. But they are in a religious community, so their experience is probably very different than expatriating alone.
okay---I guess I'd say that India might be a good place ta visit by a consumeristic American, as long as they get ta see how the rest o' the world lives, steada just the Taj Mahal. Rednecks who complain about OSHA can see how industrial workers in India don't even wear shoes, much less steel-toed ones. Yup. And don't forget your safety glasses & hard hats. Very good sir. Thank you veddy much.
https://forum.mrmoneymustache.com/we...or-retirement/
this is a thread on Mr. money mustache discussing moving to India from the United States. it gives a variety of opinions. Most of those who are posting have Indian heritage, or were born in India.
okay----i liketa sit-n-watch u-toob videos of low-overhead manufacturing operations and small repair shops in India. I'd liketa see the India business models applied to America; but guess what? The powers-that-be would not allow it. Mainly because it would keep too many fingers outta the money pie! See? More on this theory, later. to be continued.......
If native born Indians don't want to go back after living in the US for years, that should tell you something!Quote:
Originally Posted by iris lilies
Bobby, in India the grift is not from the government, it’s greasing the palms of everyone who comes into contact with a goods or a service. Negotiating that is exhausting. Part of the irritation with that system is there’s not one expected fee, each transaction is negotiated.Quote:
Originally Posted by littlebittybobby
Faux I/L--I'm aware of that. Plus, I wasn't talking about government graft in India or anywhere. I'm talking about "compliance"(see photo) Also,to save time---I said: "powers that be" meaning not only gummmint rules but economic powers-that-be. They all hafta have their unfair share of the fruits of your labor. One possible reason that good ol' building down the hill from you is not put to good use is that it isn't feasible for anyone to set up shop, there, due to that syndrome. Just betcha. In springpatch, the powers-that-be have a nasty habit of puttting the screws to areas the Drs Wives & Nerds on City Boards deem to be blighted, urban renewal needed. So yeah---all the small old industrial building are down-zoned or razed, to build more arenas and stuff they want but don't need. The old storefronts that were low overhead shops become the locations of bistros that charge big bucks for snooty & pretentious "oven-fired flatbread" FKA pizza. I offer up Commercial Street here, as an example. Yup. Attachment 6171Quote:
Originally Posted by iris lilies
Thank You, everyone, for your posts regarding India. I find it utterly amazing that India of all places is moving forward on gay/lesbian rights and out of nowhere I and SO will need to leave the US should we wish to remain legally married and have our marriages federally recognized elsewhere. I do understand that Biden signed something to the effect that marriages in states that continue to allow it need to be recognized in states that don't allow it but SO and I and all the other same sex couples I know deserve so much better. Once again, in yet another area, the United States simply isn't good enough nor competitive enough with the level of human rights for same sex couples in many other countries (now you can even add Thailand to the list with same sex marriage now legal and to die for socialized medicine for all citizens and no shame whatsoever in using it).
I'd like to just visit India for tourism but now that the United States is out to strip those like me of basic rights, travel is now survival/human rights based. Thank You, Donald Trump and all who voted for him. I didn't really want to grow old in this country anyway. Rob
I have visited just once. The heat, the crowds the chaos was too much for me. However, I love the food, particularly Bengali. Luckily, it is readily available in the UK.
Nice to see you again Ishbel!
Thank you! I do check in every so often. Nice to be remembered.
Reading your posts and realized I forgot to send you a "welcome back". So.... Welcome back!!!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by IshbelRobertson
Ishbel, nice to see you back as well.
okay----been thinking i might waste a buncha money on plane tickicks ta fly & fly & fly & fly ta Bangladesh, (one of the most horrible countries on earth) and just ride the trains!! Yup. (see photo)Attachment 6337