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Every time you return from a vacation, things feel slightly different. The roads are annoyingly crowded, your bathroom is smaller and the people in your city are impatient. In a few days, you slip into a routine, those things blur.
But if you spend a few years away from home, a lot that seemed mostly normal begins to feel jarring.
After nearly a decade in the US, I returned to India with my family almost on this day last year. It was a well-planned move, with a lot of thought given to everything that matters: picking the city closest to family, finding friends to reconnect with, getting the children acquainted with the language and grammar of India, and making carefully calibrated financial decisions.
Readjusting means getting used to the kind of things you’ll hear on return-to-India subreddits and social media groups. The discourse, generally intelligent, focuses on the predictable upsides and downsides, with shocking levels of consensus.
The main complaints centre around quality of life, which means gripes about air and noise pollution, driving and navigating traffic, the state of bureaucracy and public infrastructure, the complexities of the school system, the lack of personal space, the quality of customer service, familial interference in everyday matters, the work culture,...