Moving to India

Could an American, UK Citizen, etc, developer sell everything they own, move to India, setup shop, and live like a king as an outsourcing representitive ?

I'm being 100% serious here.

I have no ties that I can't pickup online, but I don't know how things are over there and I've heard too many stories about Americans selling everything, moving somewhere, and being murdered and forgotten.

Well, if Americans sell everything, move and then get murdered and forgotten there, that would kill my desire to do that

I personally wouldn't do it. From what I understand, Indians and Phillipinos can be some bad dudes and when they find out about some green American they might get brave and try and make some money off you.

On a side note, I remember seeing the background on the word "thug" (as in a criminal or a small time hood). It supposedly comes from the Indian word "thugie" which is the Indian organized crime ring I guess.

It's depends on which area in that country u want to move to cuz everywhere there is a good places and bad places (even in the states), and I don't think u gonna get murdered and forgotten if u r going to India cuz there is always an American embassy everywhere, and also do believe everything u hear, for example I'm from Syria (in the middle east) and the first thing u gonna think of is that there are bombing everywhere and there r a lot of bad people and no American will even think to visit, but nothing happens here it's a normal country with a peaceful people and I have many America friends lives here and they r happy, so don't worry just do ur research before u go to India, and I wish u luck.

You guessed wrong http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Thuggie - it's a very old religious cult that rose in fame during the days of the British empire. Their most common tactic would be to target a group of travelers and over several days innocently join the travelers 1-by-1 for 'protection'. After a few days the thuggies would out-number the original group and attack/strangle them.



A generalization so sweeping could be considered racist

Wish you luck Joebert, I always fancied South Africa myself.

Thailand is good for business. My partners father owns a mining company over there, he just found gold, so is trying to get permission from the Thailand government to mine it. But he'd never live there, he commutes from Sydney to Thailand about once a month for a week or so, and does the rest from home.

He also said India is a beautiful country if your not in the Cities.

Personally I would never move there. But whatever floats your boat.

I'm all for moving to new places. I don't think I would sell all of my possessions and pack up and leave without visiting the place first.

But if you've been there, have a general idea of what life will be like and how different it might be from your current lifestyle the only question you need to ask yourself is 'Are you ready?'

I think it's a good idea and I'm a strong believer of seeing and experiencing as much of the world as possible.

I just think you might want to check it out for yourself before you make such a drastic change.

I probably should have used the words "Thinking about" in my title.
I'm just pondering the idea of moving.

While I don't have any ties I can't attend to online, it would still take some very good reasons for me to up and move like that.

I love being in the US, and am going to apply to be a US citizen, BUT...I have found that it is just safer when outside the US to say I am Canadian and I am from Canada, than an American. Since I am Canadian it helps.

And no, people are not upset that the US is a big bully, they are jealous and upset that US people have bigger cars and better houses and they stick up for what they believe in, even if what they believe in is in another country.

Nobody is jealous of the snow in Canada.

Damn! I could have swore I saw that on that "locked up abroad" show...



Really its only racist if thats how you interpret it. My grandma's best friend's deceased husband was a POW in the Phillipeans (spelling?) in WWII and they did some pretty bad stuff to him then, they have a history of brutality (so do Americans now that I think about it). And I know there is still a lot of international crime coming out of that area today, so in a way if you are a westerner traveling or living there all alone you would be putting yourself in the same danger as if you were in Somalia or Central America or Baghdad or anywhere else where a ransom could be had.

Not sure it would be worth it. How long would it take them to undercut your price for service. Besides if you lose your Internet connection do you think you can call a cable guy and have it fixed in an hour? If you want to take shot a getting rich just go play the money wheel at the local casino.

I wouldn't do that

hello!

the india it is a country divided in 2 separated areas :
one civilized area with riches people
and the other one with only poor people only ...but be careful you could be killed for 5 $ here ... Indians from this area are very barbarians

regards,

Oh yess! you can! and you will live like a king for the rest of your life, i have a friend who moved to a place called bangalore in 2003, and this fellow is not ready to comeback, earlier he was an employee with one of the big IT companies there. now he owns a company and doing pretty well. with dollar going down as compared to Rs. they are doing even better!

OMG. You are being unfair. WWII happened a long time ago, my GOD!. One fact, even your country has a history of brutality. Facts are far more valid than opinion. You always say "I think", get your facts straight, yes there are some crime happening in the Philippines (See, you don't even know the spelling of the country but by the way you talk, it seems like you KNOW our country very well!) but it is not in a very alarming state and the government is doing something about it, crimes are present everywhere and the Philippines is not an exemption. Surely, There are a lot of foreigners, specially Americans are doing business here and some are already living here! There are a lot of companies outsourcing here in the Philippines. Considering you based judgment on opinion and not on facts makes your statement RACIST. May God rebuke your soul.