How accurate is this story of every NRI software engineer in the US?
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The 12-step Script that an Indian Software Engineer, who arrives in the USA, mostly follows
𝗦𝘁𝗲𝗽 𝟭 As a student, work hard to fulfil 3 goals (A) Pay off the Student Loan (B) Get a job anywhere in USA (C) Get H1-B approved (This one is the most important goal).
Simultaneously make elaborate plans to return back to India within 5 years
𝗦𝘁𝗲𝗽 𝟮 H1-B approved Enjoy the influx of Green Currency. Buy a Toyota Camry or Honda Civic or Nissan Altima.
Also, buy a property somewhere in India
𝗦𝘁𝗲𝗽 𝟯 Invite Parents from India on Visitor Visas.
Take them on the Char Dhaam Yatra- Niagara Falls Statue of Liberty Charging Bull in the Wall Street White House
𝗦𝘁𝗲𝗽 𝟰 Go to India, finalize a Girl, and get married in 3 weeks - Of course it's arranged marriage Come Back to the USA with your newly married Spouse
𝗦𝘁𝗲𝗽 𝟱 During weekends & lunchtime with other Indian friends, endlessly discuss 3 topics (A) When are you going to get your Green Card, & what is your priority date currently?
(B) How Modi is transforming India
(C) Cricket
𝗦𝘁𝗲𝗽 𝟲 - Buy a Home in the U.S Have 2 kids. Spend the next 15 years dropping them off to various Classes, attending Birthday parties, & visiting Home Depot for various Home projects. Invite in-laws from both sides (him/her) every six months to help in house & for kids.
Step 7 Green card waiting is over. You got it.
𝗦𝘁𝗲𝗽 8 By the time, you are in 40s, you have saved enough Funds. The plan for returning back to India has not worked out. Now find new ways to spend money. Buy a Tesla or BMW or Mercedes Also your India properties aren't lucrative anymore as INR has further depreciated against USD so enroll into a difficult struggle of selling off the properties in India, paying a hefty Capital Gains Tax in India and remitting the funds back to the US
𝗦𝘁𝗲𝗽 9 Now comes the time for a midlife crisis. Another shiny new Car, bigger Home, Green Card, & a
Seems kinda accurate. We should revoke Indian citizenship from people who have been outside for more than 10 yrs and haven't paid any taxes or foreign remittance
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𝗦𝘁𝗲𝗽 9 Now comes the time for a midlife crisis. Another shiny new Car, bigger Home, Green Card, & a High-paying job doesn't add anymore substance to your life. Now do something exotic to add flavor to your existence. A Marathon Race, intermittent fasting (or) maybe opening a new start-up.
𝗦𝘁𝗲𝗽 10 In your 50s and 60s, after your kids have graduated from Stanford or MIT or Princeton, discuss how your life would have been Very different, had you returned to India 5 years after coming to the USA.
Charitable donations come to mind mostly to save taxes.
Step 11 With Children going away and enough time in hand, cram each year with trips to Europe, visiting Pyramids in Egypt, enjoying Turkish Delights, and visit Italy. Start rediscovering India and share with friends back in the US how India has improved a lot in the recent Decades. Get surprised with different ways the children ended up in life
Step 12 When Functional Mobility decreases - ponder over the big Question - whether to Go back to India (or) stay in an Old Age Home or Assisted - living in US
What a fulfilled life 🙂 ig?
seems good imo
Accurate - thT's why dont go to US