I'm not super familiar with either country, but I feel like that's not really true this is comparing Seattle and Mumbai https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/

I'm not super familiar with either country, but I feel like that's not really true this is comparing Seattle and Mumbai https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?country1=India&city1=Mumbai&country2=United+States&city2=Seattle%2C+WA https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?cou... Real estate is about 2x-1x the price (I bet the cheap stuff is much worse than in the US though). Cars and more expensive big purchases are cheaper in the US. And don't forget, the US has absolutely first-class-bar-none access to financial services, with abundant cheap loans, so you can support a much nicer lifestyle on the same income.