The Truth about Phoren

Here are my initial thoughts about being in a foreign country. I can't say that it would be the same for all countries outside India, but hear me out.
Two things I would like to talk about - Living and Working.

Life.
I've been living in Switzerland now for a while. I guess everyone says that it's the best country in the world to live. I'm not so sure.
One of the senior guys I met here put it very nicely. He said - "Here in Switzerland I have everything I had ever wanted, cars, money, nice house. But the best time of my life would still be the time I spent in India. There I got my clothes washed, my food cooked, my house cleaned for me...and that for me is true luxury."
And this is not an isolated viewpoint.
You get paid a lot more than you do in India, but here everyone else is also being paid as much as you are, maybe more. You can afford a lot of things and gadgets, but you wont be able to afford a maid.

As for things to do when you want to pass time, its too cold for there to be many things. Let me elaborate.
Switzerland is a cold country, the temp goes to 0°C routinely in the evenings for more than half the year. And the culture here has developed around that fact. All the shops close at 630 in the evening. Almost nobody is out on the streets in the evening, and people prefer to be in bars or clubs in the night. In India, its much better, with people almost out every night for window shopping and movies.
Someone had also said: "In Delhi we always had things happening and there was always stuff to do. Here you just feel lazy after coming back from work, and sit at home and watch TV."
Life in India is much more happening than the life here. Surprising.
There are adventure sports in summer. All for a price though.

Work.
The Work that an Indian would get in Europe or America is much better than the work he would do in India.
One reason could be that since Indians are good workers, the people here notice that and give us more responsible work. The natives who have just started work here, have a very easy attitute to work and I guess that shows.
Another not so significant reason could be the outsourcing business. All the work that is outsourced to India is work that is too boring or too expensive with regard to manpower. And this work is not good work. So when people say that all the real work gets done in America or Europe, they are not too much off the mark. Engineers from IIT wouldn't enjoy outsourced work, I am sure.

Well, what conclusions can I draw. Not anything concrete I'm afraid. All I can say is, and this was told to us by a respected gentleman in the IIT Alumni counselling session at IIT Delhi, "Go out for a bit, see the world, but then come back to India".

India for me is the best country in the world to live.