{"id":3419,"date":"2009-11-01T23:40:27","date_gmt":"2009-11-01T18:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/?p=3419"},"modified":"2009-11-01T23:40:27","modified_gmt":"2009-11-01T18:10:27","slug":"dear-expats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/classic\/200911\/dear-expats\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear Expats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, you&#8217;ve got a job in India. Welcome. I like the fact\u00a0 that a stint in India is a valuable addition to your CV. I also appreciate that your salary enables you to live among India&#8217;s rich. I also understand that you&#8217;d like to stay in yuppie enclaves as you find yourself most comfortable there. But having done that, what sense does it make for you to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/bostonglobe\/editorial_opinion\/oped\/articles\/2009\/11\/01\/in_india_riches_breed_birthday_excess\/\">complain that<\/a> India&#8217;s rich yuppies behave like the rich yuppies back home? If you really want to &#8220;find&#8221; yourself, well, locate yourself elsewhere. There is a lot of India for your kids to experience, if you can sacrifice the comforts of an expatriate lifestyle.<\/p>\n<p>Also, most Indians aim to live their lives. We aren&#8217;t particularly interested in being a country-sized museum of anthropology for you guys to visit for extended periods when you get bored of your suburban life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, you&#8217;ve got a job in India. Welcome. I like the fact\u00a0 that a stint in India is a valuable addition to your CV. I also appreciate that your salary enables you to live among India&#8217;s rich. I also understand that you&#8217;d like to stay in yuppie enclaves as you find yourself most comfortable there. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[345,203,249,202],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3419"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3420,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3419\/revisions\/3420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}