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Huh, won't India be a better option? Loads of English speaking folks, low crime and rising standards of living.
by jimmyed 5y ago
Huh, won't India be a better option? Loads of English speaking folks, low crime and rising standards of living.
- Victerius 5y agoMany parts of India have some of the worst air pollution in the world. There's also the ever present risk of a nuclear war with Pakistan or China. Terrorism is another significant concern.
- coldtea 5y agoNot to mention city cleanliness, poverty, the caste system, and plenty of crime...
- cuteboy19 5y agoCaste would not affect a foreigner in India.
- coldtea 5y agoIn the sense that appartheid wouldn't hurt a white in South Africa back in the day. That is, if they're insensitive selfish pricks who don't care about the suffering and injustice to others near them.
- cuteboy19 5y agoThat's like saying you won't visit the US because of racism. I don't know what you think caste is, but just like racism, it has been illegal for a long time. And just like racism it is still prevalent, but it's probably the worst possible reason to avoid India
- known 5y ago
- coldtea 5y agoYeah, I'll take Vietnam, thank you.
- MattGaiser 5y agoOne thing often left unsaid about some of the locales in these articles is a fairly loose attitude towards sex, prostitution, and relationships between older foreign men and much younger women. You will find the people profiled in these to be overwhelmingly men.
- rootsudo 5y agoSouth East Asia, thank you.
- thoweuroi2u3423 5y ago
- LordAtlas 5y agoAs an Indian, no.
- billfruit 5y agoOther English speaking countries too like Belize, New Guinea as well.
- FooBarBizBazz 5y agoIndia is not quite as welcoming to foreigners, from a banking/legal/property-ownership perspective. If you've already met an Indian partner in the West (or are Indian yourself -- but then you'd know this) and are thinking about moving back there as a geoarbitrage play and/or to be with family (in-laws), it could work. I do worry a little about the political climate though. On the one hand, people will go out of their way to be nice to you in a way that doesn't happen in the West. On the other, it's a country where "is an Indian citizen", "looks Indian", and "is Hindu" are not really separate concepts outside of some minority communities. Whether India would work depends on what kind of family you have there, I think. Because in India, family is everything.
- TheCoelacanth 5y agoIndia has tons of English speakers by raw numbers, but as a percentage it's below world average[1]. Obviously, it's higher in the more cosmopolitan areas where westerners are likely to go, but the same would be true of every country. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_English-speaking_population https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_English-s...
- nine_zeros 5y agoIndia is quite as expat-friendly as Thailand or Vietnam. India is crowded. Cities where you'd find other expats are usually very expensive already. All that said, India has a niche that can only be surpassed by China - road tripping on diverse terrains. Done by lots of retired expats from Thailand and Vietnam.
- nsonha 5y agoI hate to break it to India but everyone speaks English these days except for like Japan & China because they don't give a shit What else?