Gapodi, Global Indian, thanks a lot; thats more like it, and so Canadiandesi does it again! By the way, I have one daughter, who is last year of University, and then there is me and the wife.

in India best of the prime locality you get 2bhk 1000 sq ft flat on rental L/L @$.650/-per month max. in mumbai you can have a meal at all 5 star hotel average @Rs.1200/- ($ 23) 24 hrs.maid @$125/- per moth Driver @$150/- per month all vegetable average $1/- per kg. all grain average $2/- kg so better you settle in india at Hyderabad near close to Our superstar Rajnikant in his are price per sq ft is $135/- per sq feet at Banjara hill most prominent area

If i have to choose for retirement i would consider following points and choose a place accordingly. It could be seasonal move of the year or may be permenant.

1) How is the Climatic condition? Is it suitable for me and people going to stay with me. (Hurricane, earth quake etc)
2) How is the Medical system? Affordable, latest technology, hospitals, medical syatem etc.
3) How is economy and political system of that place? Crime rate, unrest, terror attacks, etc.
4) How far is it from my friends and relatives? ( Can i or they visit as and when required, as after a while one need company and has to be social)
5) What as an hoby or time pass i am going to do there? ( Water activity, sport, life style, other hobbies etc)
6) Is that place financaily affordable to me with what ever means i have? If not how can i make it via some source of income with spare time as to completely retire is like devil's work shop.
7) How is the infrastructure of that place?

Once you look at all these points you find out a place on earth and can make a budget. It also depends on what age you are at now? What is your life style that you would like to live? How you are socially connected like childrens, relatives and other responsibilities and obligations?

I am not exact to numbers but all these factors lead to that magic number and its difficult to achieve that number. The global situation changes so fast like when i came here 14 years ago 2 crore was a good amount to live comfortable life in India but today i think 2 crore would not give you that comfort, life has changed so fast and its moving FAST- one has to keep up with that pace the numbers change from year to year !!! That is where i like this "Simple living and high thinking"
Good luck and pray for your better retirement !

Gaulam - ONE WORD

If u hate india so much , why the F..ckk u call ur self desi...... shooooooooouuuuuuu

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'Some goals are so worthy, it's glorious even to fail.' (Param Vir Chakra awardee Lt. Manoj Pandey)

I heard that frogs hibernate for a long while and stay in the mud in a pond. They even shut down their heart beats to zero, some breathe through their skins and revive again when favourable conditions emerge once again.

Try beating a dead horse?!

Who knows, it might be a frog hibernating....!!

Is some one going to return back after FIVE Long years and post a reply?

They have been waiting for 2013 years for HIM to reappear !!!

Hare Krishna, Hare Rama .... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kNGnIKUdMI

One of the highest paid celebrity actor Rajnikant having house at Banjara hill and price of house costing here is Rs.6000/- per sq ft you can have g8 banglow here keep,shoffer,cook ,24 hours maid all at max 6000/- per month salary

Harrowing experience.: Restricted life.. Tushar and Matt experimented upon by

Living on Rs.100 made the circle of their life much smaller. They found that they could not afford to travel by bus more than five km in a day. If they needed to go further, they could only walk. They could afford electricity only five or six hours a day, therefore sparingly used lights and fans. They needed also to charge their mobiles and computers. One Lifebuoy soap cut into two. They passed by shops, gazing at things they could not buy. They could not afford the movies, and hoped they would not fall ill.

However, the bigger challenge remained. Could they live on Rs. 32, the official poverty line, which had become controversial after India's Planning Commission informed the Supreme Court that this was the poverty line for cities (for villages it was even lower, at Rs. 26 per person per day)?

For this, they decided to go to Matt's ancestral village Karucachal in Kerala, and live on Rs. 26. They ate parboiled rice, a tuber and banana and drank black tea: a balanced diet was impossible on the Rs. 18 a day which their briefly adopted ‘poverty' permitted. They found themselves thinking of food the whole day. They walked long distances, and saved money even on soap to wash their clothes. They could not afford communication, by mobile and internet. It would have been a disaster if they fell ill. For the two 26-year-olds, the experience of ‘official poverty' was harrowing.

Yet, when their experiment ended with Deepavali, they wrote to their friends: “Wish we could tell you that we are happy to have our ‘normal' lives back. Wish we could say that our sumptuous celebratory feast two nights ago was as satisfying as we had been hoping for throughout our experiment. It probably was one of the best meals we've ever had, packed with massive amounts of love from our hosts. However, each bite was a sad reminder of the harsh reality that there are 400 million people in our country for whom such a meal will remain a dream for quite some time. That we can move on to our comfortable life, but they remain in the battlefield of survival — a life of tough choices and tall constraints. A life where freedom means little and hunger is plenty...

Here is the whole article :

http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/columns/Harsh_Mander/barefoot-the-other-side-of-life/article2882340.ece


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