India 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

India 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.