Should I move to India?

So what I've learned is maids, house cooks, & outside house labor makes around $100/month in some places in India and I want to live a better life and feel more higher on the social ladder. Right now in my area maids are $90+/visit, house cook is $4k a month plus the heavy price of food you want. Next a gardener service is around $100+ just to help you. If you know where a cheaper luxury life is at share it with me I may end up trying a new lifestyle

Where you currently live?

Rollfic said:

Where you currently live?

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Considering he would have to pay 4k a month for a cook, he is not only in 1st world, but in the most expensive part of 1st world.

OP, you could move to far-away lands, where life is cheaper, but don't think there won't be tradeoffs. Most obvious one would be security concerns and then healthcare quality and access. In most places they like tourists that bring money, but they don't really like it when strangers stay too long. You could have troubles fitting in and you might get unfriendly treatment from the locals. If you stay there permanently and don't look like local population, expect a lot of racism. You should also consider differences in legislation. You are probably used to have many rights that you wont be able to exercise in some other countries.

You should have a lot of options within your country already to reduce the cost of living and cost of services. Move out of the expensive neighborhood. If you want more specific recommendations, at least tell us the continent you are curently on.

Rollfic said:

Where you currently live?

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I'm in Atlanta

oldguyjoe said:

OP, you could move to far-away lands, where life is cheaper, but don't think there won't be tradeoffs. Most obvious one would be security concerns and then healthcare quality and access. In most places they like tourists that bring money, but they don't really like it when strangers stay too long. You could have troubles fitting in and you might get unfriendly treatment from the locals. If you stay there permanently and don't look like local population, expect a lot of racism. You should also consider differences in legislation. You are probably used to have many rights that you wont be able to exercise in some other countries.

You should have a lot of options within your country already to reduce the cost of living and cost of services. Move out of the expensive neighborhood. If you want more specific recommendations, at least tell us the continent you are curently on.

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Awhile back I was spending time in rural Nicaragua and caught the worse stomach bug in my life but I survived. I was down there and everything was okay but there wasn't enough people and the internet was bad. I'm really just looking to get the most out of my money and not be alone in a jungle. I don't have a wife or kids. I'm also under 40 so I'm not too old to try something newish.

I suggest thailand

I did a lot of travelling and living in different countries.

Including some of places near where you saying, guatemala and sri lanka.

My suggestion is first go on holiday and then decide if you like it before moving there.

Thailand is a favourite amongst digital nomads.

Thailand or Bali, those place are foreigner friendly

Move to Pune or Banglore ( they are in india), the weather is great, food is great, the crowd is decent since most of the IT industry and colleges are there. And also the nightlife is good because of it.

Dude ,this place is a wonderful place with lot of down to earth people and given lot of wonderful people to the planet but this place is getting worse because of population explosion everyday when i drive i pray to god to come back alive ,fucking crazy traffic with heavily polluted , but people are good you can see everyone helping each other and living happily with what they have ,but think twice before moving ! everyone's dream here to live somewhere where less crowded and walk freely and live calm

India is a good place to live if you dont do stupid things, people are friendly and especially to a foreigner, ofc some will try to take advantage of you by saying higher price but you can ask for a local for help and they will let you know whats is the correct price, someone said about healthcare, well India has one of the best private healthcare systems and we have a very extremely big and growing medical tourism industry, and extremely cheap compared to US, and you could watch some youtube of American living in India before moving, I know only one named
Benjamin Jenks - American in India, but you will find more

And before moving in come visit India and stay for a couple of months, decide which region you want to live in, what kind of lifestyle you want

Is India really the kind of infrastructure you wanna live in, though?
Seems like laziness is not really worth being stuck in a country like that.
I see some rich guys going to live in Thailand, or some island somewhere.
Again, though... seems like a risk, if things go wrong.

Probably better to just go to the gym, get fit, take care of your surroundings... eat-out, etc.
Maybe find a Mennonite Wife to care for you...
When folks talk about moving, it's usually with the idea that life is gonna be so much better in their dream place.
To that, I have a saying...

Wherever you go... people are people... and wherever you go... there you will be:
You can't escape the corruption of others, and you can't escape the corruption in yourself.
Barring horrifying conditions, it's generally better to learn to be content where you are.

i'd say, India is good place to be, to purify yourself and live some fckin real life!

I remember paying 0.5$ (a cost of a bottle of water) in a Five Star Hotel, including bed at the beach.

But, you must be ready in your life to move in such a spiritual place. It will change your life

Thailand would be a nice place to be and increase your network.

If you have an excessive lifestyle where you need cooks, maids, gardeners,outside house labor, etc, then India is no longer as cheap as people think. But, oh, if you live a normal life where most of the time you cook at home, perhaps eat out twice a week, you do not rely on maids, etc, then ofcourse India is quite a cheap place in terms of the costs. And ....

Abudence said:

feel more higher on the social ladder

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What ??? So, you make your life's decisions based on "society" or some "social ladder" ??? Sorry to say, you seem to have absolutely no understanding of what life should ideally be in order for one to live happily. If you are chasing a "social ladder" you will keep running aimlessly and you would never be happy. Anyways, it is your life and you make your choices and you meet the results of the choices that you make.
And regarding India, it the most diverse country in the world in terms of everything, be it food, culture, language, weather, etc, etc, so in various parts of India, you would get different experiences. In order to know if you would like to live in India, you need to first visit various parts of India. But, oh, in terms of food, entire of India is heaven, with each part of India having it's own cuisine, tastes & flavours. I personally know foreigners who live in India only and only because of the food !!! If your aim is to find out more about YOURSELF and WHO YOU ARE, then there is no better country than India, for that !!!
For a start, watch this video :-

I got a company paid trip to New Delhi.
Yeah it occurred to me on the way there, well if everything is going to be so cheap perhaps I could retire here?
I don't hold that view now

First thing to be aware of is that the local food will give you food poisoning. Even from 4 star restaurants.
Lack of sanitation. The only safe thing to eat there is fast food. You also need to check your bottle water is properly sealed.

Fallen power lines on the pavements. Pavements that have crumbled to dust.
People hanging out their clothes on the power lines.

Place is full of stray dogs. Strangely enough I didn't see any cats

Cost wise you can buy things in 3 grades. 1st world (80% of normal cost), 2nd world (50% of normal cost), 3rd world (10% of normal cost).
E.g. A taxi can be a car (1st world), an auto rickshaw (2nd world) or a bike pulled rickshaw (3rd world).

Same is true for things like accommodation.

I was a bit taken back when I first saw a skyscraper looking like it's out of New York being next a tent camp.
It's pretty much random what is where. There is also everything in between.

Power failures 3 to 4 times per day. Internet failures (at the ISP level) once per 2 hours for international web traffic.

So you are an American. My advice is then the upscale parts of eastern Europe and maybe long vacations in Thailand, but I wouldn't stay there permanently. I don't know how rich you are, but in some places you'll have to either hide your wealth or live your life while in the company of security guards and that is a shitty life.

Your main issue is that you want to live in a cheap place, which means you won't be surrounded with people of the same social class. At the same time, you don't want to hide your wealth, you want cooks, maids and drivers. If you'll pull this shit in a low to medium income place, relative to the host country, this will bite you in the ass, I guarantee you.

Just grind out more money and get a cushy house in some gated community in the USA.

Everything is cheap here, BUT Grass is not greener, u will be a second citizen. Ppl do like travellers but locals dont like when they stay too long

No your choice to India is bad. India is still developing and not may cheap as you think
Either move to more cheaper countries like Bangladesh,Srilanka and show everybody you are rich and you have lots of moniess

go to bali

I'm pretty sure I would not like the change but if I were one that wanted to move India would not be out of the picture based on the nice folks I know from there who have been in my life for 12 or 13 years.

No country/region is perfect but the Indian crowd, from my experiences on a one to one basis, are a good bunch of folks so living there I could probably handle.