There are places in the world where the art/author scene is thriving. For example - there's only 30K journalists working for 6K newspapers in the ENTIRE USA[1],

There are places in the world where the art/author scene is thriving. For example - there's only 30K journalists working for 6K newspapers in the ENTIRE USA[1], which is a rather tiny, pathetic number if you think about. it. Whereas in developing countries such as India, that number is much, much higher. Newspapers and media are a growth industry in India. Whereas in the USA, newspapers are shutting down at the rate of 2 per week. Since the average Indian is very likely to read an English newspaper, it paradoxically makes sense for American journalists to relocate to India and practice their craft there! The canonical posterboy for this case is Anand Giridhardas[2]. His parents, like most Indian immigrants, bent over backwards to obtain a coveted American visa, became citizens and settle down peacefully in Seattle - only to find that their All-American kid, born & brought up entirely in the USA with zero connections to India, decided to become a journalist, went to journo school, then decided to relocate to India & become a reporter over there! I used to be a member of a journo association back in the day, and Anand's name was always mentioned as some sort of puzzle - why would an American kid, that too born to Indian parents who would insist that their kid pursue STEM or medicine so some such stable lucrative profession, end up as a journalist, and even worse, go back to India, when it was so difficult for his parents to immigrate to the USA in the first place ?! [1] https://whyy.org/articles/us-newspapers-dying-2-per-week/ https://whyy.org/articles/us-newspapers-dying-2-per-week/ [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anand_Giridharadas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anand_Giridharadas