Oye Amrika!!

This thought came up from my experiences in India and abroad and also from various stories i have heard and seen.
Right from the time Indian gains conscience after birth, we are influenced by Western world, negatively or positively. There are various things, which play important role in building our strong desire to go to US. The skin color plays an interesting role in our awareness of the world. In olden time, we used to be very excited about finding a foreigner in the streets/ market and entire "mohalla" would be out on the road for having one glance at the gora. I have seen Indians in great pride when a gora is walking with them. More than a decade ago from my memories, some of my friends used to go to "Palika Bazaar"/ Purani Dilli just to catch some time with stranger gori mem so that they can polish their english language skills.

Some portion of Indian movies have always been shot outside India, so they play an important role in building our desire to go abroad. With a huge population base and great democracy (people having right to abuse anything or everything), and less of tall buildings, beautiful landscape, clean roads, nice-cars, beautiful french houses, we're always attracted to West courtesy Indian movies.

Above all, every firangi is tranditionally being considered rich in India, either because they flew to India by hawaai jahaj or because one dollar is sum of lots of Rupees. So it is said if you go to Amrika, no one in the world can stop you to become krorepati within a year or couple of year.
Oh by the way, all gori chamdi is said to be amrikan and all kali chamdi is afrikan. We (Indians) have adopted a macro-level view here.
All things are more or less same in India today as well.
Some of the facts which i found are in Amrika are eye-opener and are expressed here (they may be different for illigal immigrants):
1. Here you need a good credit score if you want your basic necessities, unless you are a cash rich person (which is unlikely the case if you are here for money). For establishing a credit score, you need to have a credit card for buying your daily necessities, loan liabilities and successful track record of payment.
2. No bank will give you a credit card, the moment you land in Amrika. Even if you show them your million dollar appointment letter. You need a corporate sponsor.
3. Be ready to pay huge deposits for everything you want to buy until you have a good credit score. Without credit - If you need a post-paid phone, deposit 500 dollars. Rental deposits are very low here for normal person but with no credit, deposit is a month's rent.
4. There are four kinds of non-avoidable taxes one has to pay every month (Federal, State, Social Security and one another), which almost leave you with 65% of the promised figure. The hack-saw doesn't end here.
5. One cannot afford to fall ill in Amerika without having an insurance. No it is not allowed unless you have your own money-making machine. If the cost of treatment is high, one cannot expect cost of insurance to be low or moderate.
6. Everything is very expensive here, thanks to the US economy which is running on the products which are manufactured either through machines or outside US. They may be cheaper to Amrikans but not to an Indian, who immidiately converts every dollar to INR. Everything where Amrikans are involved in the production (labor intensive), don't even dream that their prices will be low. Here man is valued more than machines. Top of all, Indians have special food needs, dare to imagine cheaper Indian stuff in US.
7. There are one million vendors of each product you want to buy, and are trying to sell one billion products. It's extra transparent but mostly gets convoluted in confusion.
8. If you are living on rent, you have to take renter's insurance for your guests/ neighbours/ side-walkers. If due to your mistake anything happens to them, you can be in big time law-suit/ soup. Without this insurance, no apartment complex will give a house on rent.
9. There are more numbers of lawyers in Amrika than anywhere else in the world, and there is nothing you cannot sue upon. It is even possible to sue God here. The TV channels are full of advertisements displaying for what all things you can sue whom. The lawyers will fight for you without fees, they'll just take their commission from the claim money. I was surprised to see an advertisement where you can sue IRS (Internal Revenue Service) if you have a huge tax
demand but cannot pay. I like that sometimes, but mostly i dread.
10. There is no life without a Television and there are no free channels. You have to shell out money if you want your TV to work else it's just a box. You cannot just survive with a small TV, because most of the programs/ news channels are designed for minimum 32 inch TV (some may be for bigger size). If you are trying to watch these channels on the small TV, a portion will be cut. You cannot read the full text of news/ advertisements.
11. Dare not to dream without internet. Lots of things are cheaper on the website than on the store. Not to say it comes with extra cost.
12. Cannot do without a car unless you are in NYC or couple of other places.
The list will never end. Considering all these, it's a challenge everyday in US. Things are pretty much sad here and makes me think the best place for an Indian is India and no where else. It's not that tough back home though. Home Sweet Home!