No Zaar. You are right.
Since you do not believe me, I will let DW do the talking for me.
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Come on man! Even lower middle class in India can afford a maid. Saw it enough times while visiting India. Servants and Maids are not really that hard to afford in India. Most middle class families have maids who do the dishes, they have nannies to take care of young ones. Labour is cheap as hell in India.
Zaar, the rates are not uniform. These people borrow money from their friends and relatives. Many sell their land in villages. Some offer it as low as 30-40k.Since you do not believe me, I will let DW do the talking for me.
Why are undocumented Gujaratis migrating to the US?
Families from Gujarat state are risking their lives to make the perilous journey through the Mexican desert or Canada's dense forests in freezing temperatures in search of the so-called American dream.
70,000 dollars per person. For a family of 3, that is about 210 thousand dollars. This is about 1.6 Crore INR. Am I to believe that these people are poor? Lower middle class? Nope! These are pretty rich people having vast wealth locked in land, jewellery, real estate, business and so on.
They do not have what US and Canada are asking for in immigration. They don't have right qualifications, English skills or degrees to go through formal route. They fall prey to "agents" and their own stupidity. A number of them pass through illegally and are never heard of in mainstream media. A significant number die in process.
As India become richer, their number will increase. And then it will finally start to come down, eventually.
Another thing Zaar, Wrt Gujaratis and Marwadis. Do you know that they provide loans to their community members with interest rate being as low as 0.5 percent and sometimes even Zero interest rate without any collateral?
Yeah then that stupid watchman is not poor. He is just pretending to be poor or is extremely stupid. He could have started a business by selling the land and quit his survival job. At best he is rich but ignorant person. Very common phenomenon in India. They will have kilograms of gold but they will do menial labor. They will spend a fortune doing elaborate wedding with massive amount of gold in dowry and then they will cry that they have debt. This is not poverty but stupidity.
Nothing can bring 1.6 Crore INR without having that much of equity somewhere. No one is stupid enough to give you that money especially when you are going out of the country. Who will make sure that you will pay?
Why the hell anyone will charge you less when he has a literal boat load of people ready to spend the same? If you pay less, you are likely to end up on disection table for kidneys, together with your wife and 5 year old Bunty. These are ruthless human traffickers.
Thing is, no really thinks beforehand if the high is worth the pain afterward. When they start they have this weird notation that reaching Canada or USA will magically solve all their problems. Yeah, many find it does not. I am not doubting their desperation. It does not come from lack of money. Those who really lack money, they go no where. Look at Bihar and UP and waste-bengals.
I never claimed that these folks coming here are well aware of situation and laws. I only claimed that they are NOT poor. They are sometimes stupid alright. But then really wise folks do not take this much risk anyways.
No one gives money without some kind of assurance of pay back. They or their families usually have land, real estate or other assets. That's how community business works. The contract is the community but there are always assets involved.
They need 4-5 guarantors from their caste.
Since you do not believe me, I will let DW do the talking for me.
Why are undocumented Gujaratis migrating to the US?
Families from Gujarat state are risking their lives to make the perilous journey through the Mexican desert or Canada's dense forests in freezing temperatures in search of the so-called American dream.
70,000 dollars per person. For a family of 3, that is about 210 thousand dollars. This is about 1.6 Crore INR. Am I to believe that these people are poor? Lower middle class? Nope! These are pretty rich people having vast wealth locked in land, jewellery, real estate, business and so on.
They do not have what US and Canada are asking for in immigration. They don't have right qualifications, English skills or degrees to go through formal route. They fall prey to "agents" and their own stupidity. A number of them pass through illegally and are never heard of in mainstream media. A significant number die in process.
As India become richer, their number will increase. And then it will finally start to come down, eventually.
The money only flows in the community because they have close familial links. If one member absconds with money, a close family member will pay in his place.
Punjabis are also asset rich folks who have massive farms and familial assets. That's how they have such a massive presence in UK and Canada. They have a massive hard-on for "Phoren".
Exactly! Dalits are both income and asset poor and go nowhere unless they get a scholarship and join some university. These are the real poor people.
India is a country where people having 10s of acres of fertile land are called poor. During marriages they give and take gifts worth 100s of thousands of dollars.
I am going to empty bowel and go to sleep. I will reply in the morning or afternoon maybe.
