R2I Club Member Hangout

I have spoken to some people who r2i'd since they achieved certain financial level where they could've FIRE'd in India but if they continued in US, they won't have a choice but to work another 15 years since health insurance/property tax and other basic expenses takes a huge amount from your corpus....

As pointed out by Rbee elsewhere, we don't need the other forum if we can get heavy hitters like Boca, Layman, Peace_enjoy, RRS, Koipond et al and last but not the least FIREINDIA in this forum. It's always the people and never the place! Agree with that. But the content we had there is pure gold. ...

I have been a member of Desi Returns groups and have heard of tonnes of stories, 90% are US NRIs and about 9% are UK, AU, EU NRIs. Hardly any gulf or Singapore NRIs. I realized one thing; majority of the people who are interested in R2I are from the US, which actually seems counter intuitive. US ha...

Don't know why you chose CBSE school. It has a different philosophy compared to western education. We chose purely international curriculum (IB) and are really impressed with the new age educational system in India. Focus on education is very high, academic kids are not labeled as nerds, superb fac...

Hey social, Just hop on the next plane :) … Considering we have already taken the hardest step that is actually moving and getting ourselves settled with housing/schooling etc. We want to try and find some solutions before we decide to move back. Is it generally a hopeless situation to try to even ...

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Here's my R2I story. I r2i'd this year from US to pune, India in June. daughter 14 and son 10, joined school in pune. They are not enjoying their life as initially expected since everything changed and they were not really on board when we decided to move. They were too happy with their life in Amer...