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Top 10 Peeves on Moving Back to India
Of late, many Indian expatriates have moved back to their roots and are trying to set up home in their motherland. The fact that India is booming and the growing notion that one could have the best of both worlds - the east and the west - when living in India, has sparked off this trend and many expats are leaving lucrative jobs behind to go back to their own country. However, the reality of actually living in India after spending years in the west is far from rosy. As a result, some have even given up and moved back, filled with disillusionment and bitterness. What are the major challenges one faces after moving back to India? Let us closely examine 10 pet peeves that NRIs face when they come back to India... 1. System and infrastructure - The biggest complaint one gets to hear is that the ‘system’ needs a major restructuring. The bottlenecks and infrastructural problems in day-to-day dealings that every Indian faces are more blatant in the eyes of the NRIs who tend to measure it against the western world. 2. Loss of connection with family - Take the scenario where all your relatives and cousins would wait on you and set time aside to meet you whenever you visited India for a month. The same enthusiasm fizzles out when you actually start living and your relatives start treating you in a less special way. The reason, though obvious, still hurts. 3. Job dissatisfaction - One of the biggest challenges that an expat faces after moving back is trying to adjust to the job culture here which is a far cry from the west. Rampant with politics and piggy-backing, it’s hard for a just-returned NRI to develop an attitude similar to his or her colleagues and deal with such situations accordingly. 4. Hard time trying to make friends - Most of the expats find that their friends from school and college have relocated elsewhere like them. Also, making new friends becomes difficult due to time constraints and the inability to find like-minded people. 5. Cultural Disparity - India has had a complete cultural facelift in the last 5 years. The huge influx of western paradigms has come as a rude shock for all those NRIs who have nurtured their "Indian-ness" in their hearts and secretly warded it against any influence of the western milieu for all these years. 6. Ethics and mindset - One thing you often hear an expat living here complain about is how people from here lack basic courtesies and sense of ethics and propriety. Folks jumping lines, disposing trash anywhere they please, pushing one another in public – these are all glaring incidences of misconduct in an NRI’s eyes. 7. Problems with the domestic help - What seemed like a luxurious dream living abroad comes with a sudden realization. Friends still living abroad who think you are being pampered and waited on by an army of maids and servants do not know that finding a good servant is next to impossible and even if you do, you’ll have to keep them happy with big wages and plenty of perks to ensure that they stay. 8. Climate and environment - The sharp change in climate and environment that one encounters after moving back takes some getting used to. Conditions like pollution, heat, and humidity are become feel pronounced once an NRI is back, and is hence more difficult to deal with. 9. Sickness - Most of the NRIs, especially the children, go through a cycle of ailments after moving here due to pollution and heat. Respiratory issues, digestive problems, and other minor illnesses round the year take a toll on their physical as well as mental wellbeing. 10. Communication problems faced by children - Children have a hard time trying to mingle owing to their accents and their inability to comprehend the language of their peers and playmates. This gets better with time as the adaptability of children is much quicker than the grown-ups. Editor's note: Most articles submitted to Chillibreeze go through a selection process. Only 30 percent of submitted articles are accepted for publication on the Chillibreeze.com featured article list. All accepted articles are edited and proofread for glaring errors of punctuation and grammar. Sentence structure is changed in certain cases and sometimes, entire sections are rewritten. If you notice any errors that have slipped through the cracks, do let us know! (Email us at info at chillibreeze dot com). Chillibreeze's disclaimer: This is a contributed article and was published on Chillibreeze in June, 2012. The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the author(s) and do not reflect the views of Chillibreeze as a company. Chillibreeze has a strict anti-plagiarism policy. Please contact us to report any copyright issues related to this article. The relevance of the facts and figures cited (if any) could change after a period of time. More on Chillibreeze.comRelated links: Ten Tips for Returning NRIs Other popular articles on Chillibreeze: Pet Peeves: Writing Errors
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