Reply #67: But hey, you can have servants!

[harpboy_ak]

I know an Indian couple, both architects, who worked here on H1-Bs after grad school. That is, until their baby was born (a US citizen), and then they moved back to Bangalore, where they could afford to have a nanny, a cook, a housekeeper, and a gardener on their Indian professional wages.

In India, many tech workers make enough to afford servants. I once asked an Indian physician what a dishwasher cost in India, and he quoted me the monthly wages, because machines to wash dishes are almost unknown in a country where domestic servants cost so little.

So Americans working in India would not only be contributing to the Indian economy from their labor, but by employing Indians in their households.

Sorry, but I'm not interested. A job in India doesn't pay the mortgage here.