Chrish:
I came to India in March 2011 and never regreted. I had 2 jobs when relocating. One in Saudi and one in India. Took the India job.
My salary in Canada was just 40 K and i earn in excess of a lakh here. I live in a capital city.
Actually, Canada is no big deal for the middle order like BE Mechanical, BE civil or Msc's. It is good only for IT people and low level workers.
IT people will never agree that India is a good place and I have even stopped telling anyone that. Though India is a very populated country, the services that we expect comes faster than Canada. Bribe has been reduced to the min. for the basic things. Health care is fantastic.
One thing I dislike is the education. Some of my cousins are studying in local schools and the portions are a lot to study. I am not even able to understand grade 7 science and math books. It is that tough. But if you have money for international schools, then it is good.
For IT people of your calibre, Chennai pays 20-30 L. Not sure about Chandigargh.
Now India is encouraging 50L and below investments and loans in housing and so I would implore you to buy a flat now.
Any questions, please feel free to ask me. I am in the extreme south (near nagerkoil)

Murali The krishna

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Hi All,

I have returned back to India to see if I can settle here after staying in Canada for few years. I will be evaluating my decision along the way every 6 months till 3 years, beyond which I would have expired my PR and reached point of no return to Canada.

Will keep you updated how my move materializes, the going so far (keep in mind I am in Chandigarh):

a) Corruption, I have not encountered any corruption issues in last 3 months. In this time, I have renewed my driving licence, renewed my car registration and going to renew my kids passports. Another thing I found was for both the things the process had been streamlined a lot. The only negative is that the application form was the old one and I had to pay 300/- for both to be filled.

b) Power/Water, Not experienced major power/water cuts even though there was little monsoon in north. One thing to be noted water comes morning and evening 3 hrs, I don't mind as I store it in tanks for continuous supply. Power rates seem have been increased.

c) Traffic, its increased but frankly I adjusted very well to the traffic I would say better than Canada. Probably because I had more years of experience, one thing to be noted for first couple of weeks I did not drive.

d) Work, I left a very well paying job in Canada (90K+) but have not landed any work yet. My focus is to get freelancing work in IT and make 20L in India, let us see how it goes.

e) Hobby, I am back to my spending time on my hobbies, I jog daily for 1 hr early in the morning at 5:30 am and working on getting organic kitchen garden on my terrace mostly for leafy veggies.

f) Being a vegetarian, though I was in Calgary for some time but definitely India has more options. I get the produce from farmers market, which though crowded and not clean by Canadian standards still has its own charm for me. I enjoy my weekly outing to farmer's market, the produce I get I soak in water and ozonise it to reduce pesticide content. I guess this should bring the produce to the Canadian standards.

g) Socializing, there is more in India but frankly I never had a problem in Canada either. Outside office I had made few Indian and Caucasian friends. One change I find is that people call you before coming to your place and atleast my friend circle understands that you need time for family as well on weekends.

h) Education, it is more rigorous here in India. I would say the TLC in Alberta is comparable as per the syllabus.

i) Extra Curricular, my kids learn painting , music and sculpturing all at home. This is unbeatable, as Canada does not give this luxury.

j) I find kids here are more social and as a parent I feel I have better control over the decisions. Even in schools there are PTM and the issues are getting addressed, the best part of schooling I like is the uniforms. There is no undue competition for clothing.

Will keep you updated as I go along.

Crish

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Delhi is where the 'Dil' is.

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Same here Febpreet.