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[desi4ever]

I would even personally go to Boca Raton with "vethala paaku thattu" (A Vethala Pakku Thattu is an offering tray that symbolizes abundance, prosperity, and love) if only he had shown any interest to those that worked with him to revive the old site!

May be because of OS2ji, he is staying away from registering here?
Didn’t OS2ji say all his US friends are abandoning him ?
j/k OS2ji, take it easy

Os2 is a personality that would not be too bothered [ like they say in colloquial Tamizh ( jaaly manushyan ) ] and would be looking for the best south Indian buffet instead.

[RBee]

Welcome here new members post_r2i06, mastaan, radhakrishnar.
postr2iji, how is your R2I journey going? 19 years completed? Is your daughter in US too? (You had shared that your son is in US after finishing undergrad)..
mastaanji, are you the same guy who went to Thailand and preferred there over India?
radhakrishnaji, welcome here. Do not remember your ID in old forum. Please share what motivated to register here.

[old-spice2]

May be because of OS2ji, he is staying away from registering here?
Didn’t OS2ji say all his US friends are abandoning him ?
j/k OS2ji, take it easy

Most of my physical friends abandoned me in US and but virtual friends are still in good terms. Not just friends, few relatives also stopped interaction. We gave them two months notice about our return and they never bothered to meet for final goodbye. I unfriended them on FB, exited WA group and deleted their phone numbers.

May be they are jealous we are going back and they are stuck in US. I don't know. I showed them few months earlier how I am going to enjoy my retired life in India, visit multiple tourist places, live life Kingsize with dollar savings, not worry about healthcare, LTC and eat yummy Indian food instead of crappy stuff dished out in Chaat Bhawan. May be they got pissed off!

Few of my white former colleagues invited for a farewell at Starbucks and asked about my post retirement plans. I told them I deleted my LinkedIn profile, sold all my personal stuff and may not come back to US. One guy was emotional and said I should visit CA in the future to catch up and have a beer. We have been friends since 2006. Americans are better than Indians.

[RBee]

Most of my physical friends abandoned me in US and but virtual friends are still in good terms. Not just friends, few relatives also stopped interaction. We gave them two months notice about our return and they never bothered to meet for final goodbye. I unfriended them on FB, exited WA group and deleted their phone numbers.

May be they are jealous we are going back and they are stuck in US. I don't know. I showed them few months earlier how I am going to enjoy my retired life in India, visit multiple tourist places, live life Kingsize with dollar savings, not worry about healthcare, LTC and eat yummy Indian food instead of crappy stuff dished out in Chaat Bhawan. May be they got pissed off!

Few of my white former colleagues invited for a farewell at Starbucks and asked about my post retirement plans. I told them I deleted my LinkedIn profile, sold all my personal stuff and may not come back to US. One guy was emotional and said I should visit CA in the future to catch up and have a beer. We have been friends since 2006. Americans are better than Indians.

That’s too extreme . You went back in January. That is very busy time for most working folks in US. Most US companies give year end shutdown and then expect to make it up in first week from January.
Why were you expecting farewell? You could have setup a time/place and ask for ‘Go dutch’ get-together and may be they would have chipped in without letting you open purse.
OTOH may be they are all Democrats and you were openly cheering for Trump till you left for India and now after seeing DJIA/VG account, you started calling him names
Jealous is too strong word for long time friends. Most wish well for others on the dreams they couldn’t fulfill themselves !!

[desi4ever]

May be because of OS2ji, he is staying away from registering here?
Didn’t OS2ji say all his US friends are abandoning him ?
j/k OS2ji, take it easy

May be they are jealous we are going back and they are stuck in US. I don't know. I showed them few months earlier how I am going to enjoy my retired life in India, visit multiple tourist places, live life Kingsize with dollar savings, not worry about healthcare, LTC and eat yummy Indian food instead of crappy stuff dished out in Chaat Bhawan. May be they got pissed off!

That's so shallow of them. I know a guy in my neighborhood that R2I'd many years ago. We had a nice lunch at a Thai place before he left. He recently came to visit me after a 8 year gap. He said he was having a great time there in Hyderabad, but complained of lack of $$$ .

[SAPPORO]

I hope RI is doing well, he hasn't posted anything in quite a while.

[nodegree]

I hope RI is doing well, he hasn't posted anything in quite a while.

Probably traveling. Great time of the year.

[SAPPORO]

May be because of OS2ji, he is staying away from registering here?
Didn’t OS2ji say all his US friends are abandoning him ?
j/k OS2ji, take it easy

Most of my physical friends abandoned me in US and but virtual friends are still in good terms. Not just friends, few relatives also stopped interaction. We gave them two months notice about our return and they never bothered to meet for final goodbye. I unfriended them on FB, exited WA group and deleted their phone numbers.

May be they are jealous we are going back and they are stuck in US. I don't know. I showed them few months earlier how I am going to enjoy my retired life in India, visit multiple tourist places, live life Kingsize with dollar savings, not worry about healthcare, LTC and eat yummy Indian food instead of crappy stuff dished out in Chaat Bhawan. May be they got pissed off!

Few of my white former colleagues invited for a farewell at Starbucks and asked about my post retirement plans. I told them I deleted my LinkedIn profile, sold all my personal stuff and may not come back to US. One guy was emotional and said I should visit CA in the future to catch up and have a beer. We have been friends since 2006. Americans are better than Indians.

They were either too emotional to see you or scared that you might ask them to use their address for your mail etc..

FIRE and R2I (Retire2India) are similar in that most people want to do it, but they don't even if some can.
So, it's a mixture of jealousy, awkwardness on their part to ask 'why', defensiveness on your part to say, "why not?", possibility of slipping into being judgmental on both sides and so on. All in all,it might be a sweet blessing in disguise to have avoided all this.

There's nothing Indian or American about this. I have lunch with my former office colleagues from 2018 when I visit NJ and my DW received multiple birthday gifts from our Desi friends last month. We had multiple farewell get-togethers in NJ, maybe because we are just a short flight away and not going to be "out of sight, out of mind" as in moving to India.