Ok, I want input from everyone on this.

I lived in the U.S. for a while before moving to Canada. Most people will complain about how much better life is in the U.S. compared to Canada and how much more money people make. Not me. I was happy in the U.S. and I'm happy here in Canada as well. Both the countries have their plus points and minuses.

There's only one complaint I have about Canada. Every Indian friend of mine here is married with kids (I'm not, by the way.).

That's not to say there's something wrong with being married, but most of my friends in the U.S. were Indians and were bachelors (both guys and girls). I used to run into so many bachelors every where I went. I specifically used to try to make a couple of married friends to have a good dinner once in a while on weekends.

In Canada, its the reverse. Every Indian I meet here is married, most probably has kids and chances are also a house or a condo. Granted, I have canadian friends and born-brought-up here Indian friends who're single. But I don't ever bump into bachelors from India who go to school or are working here etc..

Why the difference?

Input requested from both married people and bachelors (if any). Please state your status while posting

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Are you there?

BL,

The immediate reply is:

In US, you must have met H1B Holders, those are young, IT Professionals and having temporary stay kind of mentality.

Here in Canada, they grant Visa to experienced professionals. 4 Year is experinece requirement. If you consider the age of 22 of graduation add 4, will make 26, so at the age of 26 someone will apply for Canadian Immigration. By the time they get Visa they will be 28.

Now at the age of 28 most of Indians were married and many of them will have at least 2 children.

I have seen that most of the pople immigrate here after working in India for 10 years, so I have seen many people of around 35 years of age.

This is not wodner!

One suggestion, you could have created poll on this post, so that you can get exact replies.

BTW, I am married with two children.

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A Proud Indian Canadian

dunno know about all that!

But I have to say this its so hard to find a good match in this country. I am originally from New Delhi, come from a highly educated family. But ever since I have been in Calgary, its feels like a "pind" to me. With all those village people around, mostly specially in NE area. And then if you look for guys, like my mom is right now, you get jatts and they want jatt kudee.

woww.. i miss india and my friends. will probably get married there eventually. I am 26 , working as technical analyst.

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"bebee Kudee"

Summan,

Interesting to know that you are not able to get good match - what is lacking in people? You considered them village people - do you mean people came from villages of India?

You are well educated - so you can get a very good match from India, I am sure.

Best of Luck.

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A Proud Indian Canadian

Summanji!

Jaldi se India jao, varna kanwari rah jaongi!!

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Hurat Honani Murat!

Finding a good match is such a convuluted process anyways, espeically if you go down the arranged marriage path. I think its generally a good idea to find someone from your own country. Maybe its me, but my "Indian mentality" does not seem to mesh well with the outlook of my Indo-canadian friends. I can get along with them just fine on a friendship level and think they're pretty good people for the most part, but the fundamentals are so different on so many things.

And yeah, there's very few Indian born/brought up bachelors/bachelorettes here in Canada. Most people come here with at least 3 kids, almost seems to be an immigration requirment.

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Are you there?

hi,
I think the basic difference is due to the fact that in US, majority of indians came/come for further studies and are bachelor at the time they come. in such circumstances, it is but natural to get blend in that atmosphere of not getting married at an early age.
In contrast, in Canada, the immigration policy is to invite families with kids, to increase the population of the country to get more tax payers in the years to come.
People in India, who could afford to study abroad prefer to move to USA and not in Canada. People, who could not go for further studies to USA during their youth, fulfill their dreams by immigrating to Canada with family.
What difference does it make, anyway ???

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Sunil Sharma, P.Eng.