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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Quality of service in America is horrible across the board - domestic help, at stores, at work, at school, on calls.  Many are illiterate and/or ESOL- more lost in translations (voluntary or involuntary!).

Think of how many times you find mistakes in orders, sizes, your instructions, the final product? Now multiply that for someone you give the keys to your house and your kids to.

Other countries people have more pride in their work- like Japan. No need to double check anything.

[b]Other countries domestic service industry is more professional- se Asia, Mideast, Eastern Europe[/b]. No matter, they get here, act entitled, assume everyone is a multi millionaire, and quality of service declines— especially if you’re weak at managing people and tasks.

So many do-the-bare-minimum workers here. Such a PITA. Thus when and if you find someone who cares you pay more. But do not pay more for imposters. [/quote]

Um, no.

We're expats.  I've had live-in help in multiple countries, including Russia, India, Singapore, and China.  It isn't what you think.  It isn't good for anybody, even the fortunate employers of the live-in help.  In India, especially, you have to deaden part of your soul in order to share space with someone so very unfortunate, with so limited a future and so miserable a life, to have this, and EVERY lower to upper middle class to upper class person there has a maid.  The maids are regularly taken out of school and put into live-in servant (slave) situations, and beating, rapes, and mistreatment of the help is, from what I saw, the norm.  It warps something in the culture that embraces such a system.

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That’s an exaggeration.

- multiple times expat and FSO [/quote]

No it isn't:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp3j0e79q52o

https://www.dw.com/en/indias-domestic-workers-face-abuse-exploitation/a-64920455

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-64594779

And you have clearly never lived in India.

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have lived there in two cities. Trips many times.

Are you talking mostly about how the Indian caste system treats its own help?

Are you talking about how the middle class’s Help lives better than the millions in the slums?

Remember, most people and even companies don’t pay taxes to India. There is no consequence to not paying your personal taxes or your whole corporate ones, hence no social net either. For 1 billion total people. [/quote]

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