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Anonymous wrote:Dumb question perhaps but can an American just go stay in India for a year? Do they offer visas for that?

Op here. Why in the hell would you come here if you don't have any family?

You know, there is this called a JOB which sometimes people find in other countries, more lucrative than in their own. Also for some adventure.

^^^ *this thing called a JOB

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Anonymous wrote:Dumb question perhaps but can an American just go stay in India for a year? Do they offer visas for that?

Op here. Why in the hell would you come here if you don't have any family?

You know, there is this called a JOB which sometimes people find in other countries, more lucrative than in their own. Also for some adventure.

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Anonymous wrote:Dumb question perhaps but can an American just go stay in India for a year? Do they offer visas for that?

Op here. Why in the hell would you come here if you don't have any family?

OP this is such a bizarre and aggressive comment. Tons of people on here have referenced spending significant time in India without necessarily having family. I am the person that would NEVER go somewhere with small children without hot running clean water but my cousin spent like 3 years in India studying for his dissertation and loved it. He and his wife (both white as the driven snow) go back frequently.

Why in the hell do people go anywhere they don't have any family? I find you pretty unappealing after this comment.

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Tons of people? Where are all these people living in India without family because I don't see anyone besides your family and half the Indian Americans are telling me hell no don't live in India. The quality of life is much worse here. You haven't been to India and you are very dramatic.

Aren't you the one who WANTS to live in India? There are 1.4 billion people in India. There are an estimated 20-30k Americans living in India permanently. Plenty of people here are saying you SHOULD do it.

I wouldn't do it because I feel like young childdhood is approximately 50% cleaning things up but that doesn't mean I think it would be ridiculous that you or someone else would be making a different choice. This is such a strange argument. YOU thought moving to India would be a good idea and asked about it, got a fairly mixed set of responses which I think makes sense because it takes someone with an adventurous spirit to live in a foreign country with young children, and now you're MAD at me for saying you seem like a jerk for not comprehending why someone would visit India?

You are confusing. Good luck with your life.

+1 Bizarre turn of tone from OP.

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Anonymous wrote:Dumb question perhaps but can an American just go stay in India for a year? Do they offer visas for that?

Op here. Why in the hell would you come here if you don't have any family?

OP this is such a bizarre and aggressive comment. Tons of people on here have referenced spending significant time in India without necessarily having family. I am the person that would NEVER go somewhere with small children without hot running clean water but my cousin spent like 3 years in India studying for his dissertation and loved it. He and his wife (both white as the driven snow) go back frequently.

Why in the hell do people go anywhere they don't have any family? I find you pretty unappealing after this comment.

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Tons of people? Where are all these people living in India without family because I don't see anyone besides your family and half the Indian Americans are telling me hell no don't live in India. The quality of life is much worse here. You haven't been to India and you are very dramatic.

Aren't you the one who WANTS to live in India? There are 1.4 billion people in India. There are an estimated 20-30k Americans living in India permanently. Plenty of people here are saying you SHOULD do it.

I wouldn't do it because I feel like young childdhood is approximately 50% cleaning things up but that doesn't mean I think it would be ridiculous that you or someone else would be making a different choice. This is such a strange argument. YOU thought moving to India would be a good idea and asked about it, got a fairly mixed set of responses which I think makes sense because it takes someone with an adventurous spirit to live in a foreign country with young children, and now you're MAD at me for saying you seem like a jerk for not comprehending why someone would visit India?

You are confusing. Good luck with your life.

Visiting and living are 2 different things. After reading the responses on here and recently getting sick I have decided NOT to live in India. You would have to be crazy to live here.

If it was so crazy and you made up your mind not to go then why ask in the first place?

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Anonymous wrote:Dumb question perhaps but can an American just go stay in India for a year? Do they offer visas for that?

Op here. Why in the hell would you come here if you don't have any family?

OP this is such a bizarre and aggressive comment. Tons of people on here have referenced spending significant time in India without necessarily having family. I am the person that would NEVER go somewhere with small children without hot running clean water but my cousin spent like 3 years in India studying for his dissertation and loved it. He and his wife (both white as the driven snow) go back frequently.

Why in the hell do people go anywhere they don't have any family? I find you pretty unappealing after this comment.

+1.

Tons of people? Where are all these people living in India without family because I don't see anyone besides your family and half the Indian Americans are telling me hell no don't live in India. The quality of life is much worse here. You haven't been to India and you are very dramatic.

Aren't you the one who WANTS to live in India? There are 1.4 billion people in India. There are an estimated 20-30k Americans living in India permanently. Plenty of people here are saying you SHOULD do it.

I wouldn't do it because I feel like young childdhood is approximately 50% cleaning things up but that doesn't mean I think it would be ridiculous that you or someone else would be making a different choice. This is such a strange argument. YOU thought moving to India would be a good idea and asked about it, got a fairly mixed set of responses which I think makes sense because it takes someone with an adventurous spirit to live in a foreign country with young children, and now you're MAD at me for saying you seem like a jerk for not comprehending why someone would visit India?

You are confusing. Good luck with your life.

Visiting and living are 2 different things. After reading the responses on here and recently getting sick I have decided NOT to live in India. You would have to be crazy to live here.

Yep. Just as I suspected. OP is a troll. Just waiting for the anti H1B rants.

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Anonymous wrote:Dumb question perhaps but can an American just go stay in India for a year? Do they offer visas for that?

Op here. Why in the hell would you come here if you don't have any family?

OP this is such a bizarre and aggressive comment. Tons of people on here have referenced spending significant time in India without necessarily having family. I am the person that would NEVER go somewhere with small children without hot running clean water but my cousin spent like 3 years in India studying for his dissertation and loved it. He and his wife (both white as the driven snow) go back frequently.

Why in the hell do people go anywhere they don't have any family? I find you pretty unappealing after this comment.

+1.

Tons of people? Where are all these people living in India without family because I don't see anyone besides your family and half the Indian Americans are telling me hell no don't live in India. The quality of life is much worse here. You haven't been to India and you are very dramatic.

Aren't you the one who WANTS to live in India? There are 1.4 billion people in India. There are an estimated 20-30k Americans living in India permanently. Plenty of people here are saying you SHOULD do it.

I wouldn't do it because I feel like young childdhood is approximately 50% cleaning things up but that doesn't mean I think it would be ridiculous that you or someone else would be making a different choice. This is such a strange argument. YOU thought moving to India would be a good idea and asked about it, got a fairly mixed set of responses which I think makes sense because it takes someone with an adventurous spirit to live in a foreign country with young children, and now you're MAD at me for saying you seem like a jerk for not comprehending why someone would visit India?

You are confusing. Good luck with your life.

Visiting and living are 2 different things. After reading the responses on here and recently getting sick I have decided NOT to live in India. You would have to be crazy to live here.

Child rape, and rape in general is a huge problem in India and not getting better. That alone would keep me from moving.

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Anonymous wrote:Dumb question perhaps but can an American just go stay in India for a year? Do they offer visas for that?

Op here. Why in the hell would you come here if you don't have any family?

OP this is such a bizarre and aggressive comment. Tons of people on here have referenced spending significant time in India without necessarily having family. I am the person that would NEVER go somewhere with small children without hot running clean water but my cousin spent like 3 years in India studying for his dissertation and loved it. He and his wife (both white as the driven snow) go back frequently.

Why in the hell do people go anywhere they don't have any family? I find you pretty unappealing after this comment.

+1.

Tons of people? Where are all these people living in India without family because I don't see anyone besides your family and half the Indian Americans are telling me hell no don't live in India. The quality of life is much worse here. You haven't been to India and you are very dramatic.

Aren't you the one who WANTS to live in India? There are 1.4 billion people in India. There are an estimated 20-30k Americans living in India permanently. Plenty of people here are saying you SHOULD do it.

I wouldn't do it because I feel like young childdhood is approximately 50% cleaning things up but that doesn't mean I think it would be ridiculous that you or someone else would be making a different choice. This is such a strange argument. YOU thought moving to India would be a good idea and asked about it, got a fairly mixed set of responses which I think makes sense because it takes someone with an adventurous spirit to live in a foreign country with young children, and now you're MAD at me for saying you seem like a jerk for not comprehending why someone would visit India?

You are confusing. Good luck with your life.

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Anonymous wrote:Dumb question perhaps but can an American just go stay in India for a year? Do they offer visas for that?

Op here. Why in the hell would you come here if you don't have any family?

OP this is such a bizarre and aggressive comment. Tons of people on here have referenced spending significant time in India without necessarily having family. I am the person that would NEVER go somewhere with small children without hot running clean water but my cousin spent like 3 years in India studying for his dissertation and loved it. He and his wife (both white as the driven snow) go back frequently.

Why in the hell do people go anywhere they don't have any family? I find you pretty unappealing after this comment.

+1.

Tons of people? Where are all these people living in India without family because I don't see anyone besides your family and half the Indian Americans are telling me hell no don't live in India. The quality of life is much worse here. You haven't been to India and you are very dramatic.

No because I’d be afraid my spouse would not want to return to the US at the end of the year.

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Anonymous wrote:Dumb question perhaps but can an American just go stay in India for a year? Do they offer visas for that?

Op here. Why in the hell would you come here if you don't have any family?

OP this is such a bizarre and aggressive comment. Tons of people on here have referenced spending significant time in India without necessarily having family. I am the person that would NEVER go somewhere with small children without hot running clean water but my cousin spent like 3 years in India studying for his dissertation and loved it. He and his wife (both white as the driven snow) go back frequently.

Why in the hell do people go anywhere they don't have any family? I find you pretty unappealing after this comment.

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Anonymous wrote:I would. We have a huge ancestral estate in panaji where my family still stays and I have a share in the property. My kids love to go there and they will be thrilled if they have to stay there. My problem is that my kids will flunk school there because they are educated in the substandard US system of education and won't be able to cope with the curriculum there. Ugh! I am gripped with anxiety now!!!! Kids are in 1st and 3rd grade here.

Breathe....

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Anonymous wrote:Dumb question perhaps but can an American just go stay in India for a year? Do they offer visas for that?

Op here. Why in the hell would you come here if you don't have any family?

Because it's a beautiful country full of interesting experiences. OP, I'm starting to think you're an anti-Indian troll.

Anonymous wrote:Yes.

That’s sight unseen, but a year goes by so fast and I like adventures.

Me, too! Do it! You will be living my dream.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes but only if there was a maid and/or cook. Doing that stuff on my own for my child and myself in a foreign country would not be as worth it without American conveniences I’m familiar with. If someone else is shopping and cooking then I’d be packing my bags.

I don't get how OP's family is upper middle class. I thought India was the same as Latin America. Everyone who is upper middle class has a maid.

Op here. My husbands family has a lot of women who do not work so maybe they enjoy doing household work? They do not watch tv often or use the internet. I think they would be bored without things to do around the house. That's the impression I get.

OP, would you be up for doing the same as the other women? Doing a bunch of household work? I agree with the PP who said you would no longer be treated as a guest. Maybe that trade-off would be worth it to you in order for your family to have the experience. I'd be pretty irritated with doing laundry if I knew that for a small amount of money I could outsource it. And I wouldn't want to be washing floors and all the other stuff that needs to get done really frequently because of the dust, etc. But it would be a unique experience, and your son could get to learn some of the language and really bond with his Indian relatives. What do you think about the heat issue? It gets damned hot there in summer! Does your husband's family belong to a club or have some other access to a pool, or other means of cooling off in the heat the way we have here? Air conditioning?