12-12-2006, 05:41 PM
As if they are doing us a favour
Role reversal Brits head to India
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6171837.stm
There are at least 32,000 Britons now living in India, according to new research - and its the economy that is sucking them in, a twist of migration history between the two countries.
Yusuf Hatia is one such Brit who has decided to move to Mumbai after the public relations firm he works for, Fleishman-Hillard, decided to open in India. After testing the waters, he says he is preparing to take his young family out there.
<b>"My major concerns were around the general poverty, the fear of malaria that all British seem to have - and the standard of living,"</b> he says.
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Dalbir Bains, however, misses her London life and everything English that was part of it.
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I miss my family, my friends, the dialogue, the contact, simple things like finishing work and going to a pub for a glass of wine," she says.
"You can't do that here. <b>I miss English food</b> and I really miss going to Sainsbury's and buying your whole weekly shop in one go. There is nothing really that compares here.
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Asad Shan is a model-actor who moved to Mumbai earlier in 2006.
Asad also says he has blended in quite well - but is sometimes surprised to find <b>India more progressive in some respects.
"I think our upbringing in England tends to be more traditional and parents expect certain values from you.</b> (--looks like he is a Paki masquerading as an Indian--) , such as you can't be seen with someone or you can't go to certain places.
<b>"Here everything is so open, you are like, wow, I wouldn't do this [in England] but here it's all happening," he said. </b>
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Role reversal Brits head to India
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6171837.stm
There are at least 32,000 Britons now living in India, according to new research - and its the economy that is sucking them in, a twist of migration history between the two countries.
Yusuf Hatia is one such Brit who has decided to move to Mumbai after the public relations firm he works for, Fleishman-Hillard, decided to open in India. After testing the waters, he says he is preparing to take his young family out there.
<b>"My major concerns were around the general poverty, the fear of malaria that all British seem to have - and the standard of living,"</b> he says.
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Dalbir Bains, however, misses her London life and everything English that was part of it.
......................
I miss my family, my friends, the dialogue, the contact, simple things like finishing work and going to a pub for a glass of wine," she says.
"You can't do that here. <b>I miss English food</b> and I really miss going to Sainsbury's and buying your whole weekly shop in one go. There is nothing really that compares here.
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Asad Shan is a model-actor who moved to Mumbai earlier in 2006.
Asad also says he has blended in quite well - but is sometimes surprised to find <b>India more progressive in some respects.
"I think our upbringing in England tends to be more traditional and parents expect certain values from you.</b> (--looks like he is a Paki masquerading as an Indian--) , such as you can't be seen with someone or you can't go to certain places.
<b>"Here everything is so open, you are like, wow, I wouldn't do this [in England] but here it's all happening," he said. </b>
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