Is it worth moving abroad?
Your experience or close friends’ experience. Express in % ‘worth it’iness. Comments would be appreciated.
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It depends a lot on the country you decide to move to, your own likes/dislikes, family situation, etc.
Do you have any friends abroad? Are you abroad rn?
I am not abroad right now.
But some of my friends are abroad.
Out of them some liked it there and want to settle down there.
A few are going to return back in the next year or two.
2 friends went there and already returned back within 2 years.
Easy to think moving abroad will solve problems
In some cases, sure. Opportunities to work in cutting edge companies and be compensated above world average pay, oh yes. Are roads better? Yes. Is the air cleaner? Sure.
But and this is a huge but
If you can somehow make say 35L+ here (in hand) you can have a superior QoL. You get someone to cook food everyday. Clean your house. Labour arbitrage means you can make most menial tasks someone else’s responsibility. You’re closer to family and friends. And as you get older, proximity to parents becomes VERY important
Also dorks that chase a PR and then decide to figure out employment are largely regretting their decisions (within my social circles). Maybe it’s viable for some. But not for most
Damn costly in EU rn
U in EU ?
It depends on lot of factors now. now a days people are going and trying to match their lifestyle with ppl who settled 10-15 years back. which is not difficult bcoz of high QOL, high competition and less oppurtunities.
Another factor is in India ppl are habituated with online food, grocery deliveries, cheap workers easily available etc. This is still not possible in abroad and they are very costly also. So you need to see how many things you took granted in India and are you ready to take that responsibility.
Savings is also not high these days. Every year if you plan vacation or trip to India then all your savings are gone. If you aggressivley invest in etf, stocks then you will get good returns after 10-15 years. So you must live very nominal life which is not worth as in India you may save less but your comfort level will be good. If you have kids then your responsibility, physical strain, mental strain increases multi folds.
Of course it is especially if you are Vijay Mallya
Everyone wants a better quality of life.
This is q very context dependent question. None of above would fit to your situation if you don't tell the context
The grass is greener where the infrastructure is better?