Why do people think their life revolves around living in the US?
Oct 31, 2018
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Saw one guy say he and his wife aren't having kids in case they can't stay in the US.
Seriously?
What is wrong with going to live in India or whatever your country? I'm sure the pay is higher here but so? Is that all you care?
What's the big deal?
Genuinely interested.. I'm not Indian and I don't get the Indian fixation with America. People seem desperate to be here. Is India really that horrible? Didn't seem so horrible when I went there for work. Granted only there a few days.
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Stop raping girls and start working dumb shits
Stop migrating to south india for jobs assholes
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_and_union_territories_of_India_by_tax_revenues
The top States/UTs in terms of the number of cases reported under Dowry Prohibition Act were: Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Odisha, Assam, Madhya Pradesh, and Maharashtra
The problem with current administration policies is that it's like a forced layoff of the individual even if they've followed all rules. Ever experienced a lay off? Did it feel stressful? Now add the fact that you have to sell your house, cars, have your spouse quit work, have you child quit school, leave your society, close bank accounts, close credit cards ---- all in ONE day.
Do you think you can do that if you were living in a foreign country and got abruptly kicked out within a day?
Say you've been working in London for 10 years, made a life, kids, great career. Suddenly the govt goes bonkers and tells you to leave tomorrow, despite you having followed all rules. How would that feel?
Even if you manage to take care of everything in your country of employment WITHIN A DAY, where do you go to when you return to your home country? Do you have a house there? If not, where do you take your kids? What if laws in home country prevent signing a lease within a day?
Look, for a lot of folks, it's just inertia. It's easy to jump countries when you are single. But it's hard to go home one evening and tell your wife, "pack your bags, we're taking the morning flight back to xyz". What's she supposed to do? Call her boss to tell she's quitting? Are these people working at McDonald's to be able to do that or are there real time projects and careers going on? What if she's a doctor who has an important surgery tomorrow?
It's a different issue when you try to deport factory workers. It's completely different with professional workers with many many high stake responsibilities. Maybe this is not evident to you, but professional workers are generally professional about finishing their job. They don't leave abruptly if possible.
Also, it takes time for policies to take effect and actually cause large scale impact. You'll notice the slow erosion of foreign workers with current policies. Two years into this administration and people are waking up to the nonsense in US.
Drop in international students:
http://www.universityworldnews.com/article.php?story=20181005200448286
Drop in international visitors:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/roadwarriorvoices/2018/01/19/number-international-visitors-usa-declines/1047492001/
Companies investing abroad even after the nice repatriation window:
https://m.timesofindia.com/business/india-business/qualcomm-to-invest-400m-in-hyd-for-largest-foreign-campus/amp_articleshow/66104158.cms
Drop in future investments within the US by US companies:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/25/business/ford-earnings.html
Business conferences relocating elsewhere:
https://business.financialpost.com/technology/tech-conferences-moving-north-as-trump-policies-turn-off-attendees
These effects compound year over year. It's only been 2 years :)
India specifically has been growing insanely fast since Trump came into office:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-23/india-s-tech-unicorns-aren-t-just-clones
The folks who are stuck in the US are here because of inertia and simply because it's hard to uproot your family at the whim of a government. Folks who are fixated with America despite all this are similar to Americans with a rose-tinted view of Japan (and we know there are a lot of those)
But with the decline in business in future in the US, fewer people would come to the US as I've pointed the trend above.
I think there are lots of centers and tech can be equally diverse as finance and banking is.
But yes, it remains to be seen if tech will be truly distributed
It’s about basics. If the cops, ambulances arrive when we need one, if people follow basic traffic / parking rules I would gladly move back.