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Re:Inexpensive Countries Where $2k/Month Buys the Good Life by dang on Saturday June 12, 2021 @04:01PM (#27487071)
Posting slurs will get you banned here. No more of this please.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re:Inexpensive Countries Where $2k/Month Buys the Good Life by ajonit on Friday June 11, 2021 @08:05AM (#27472178)
Shitting - 1.3B would have extinct by now if everyone was doing that. Food and water changes take time to get acclimatised.

Power - you must have been in poor quality apartments. In most prominent cities, there is hardly any power outage even then We have 100% power back up here in most apartments in Gurgaon and most cities in India.

Truly, one can live like a king in India for $2k in most cities. You have house help, driver, cleaner, gardener, masseur, baby sitter etc available for dirt cheap. I pay Rs 500/- (~$7) for an hour of massage with masseur providing service at home itself.

I am not saying all is fine with India but yes if you know your way around, you choose good cities to live, you can truly live life king size here compared to any other country.

Re:Inexpensive Countries Where $2k/Month Buys the Good Life by contingencies on Friday June 11, 2021 @08:53AM (#27472609)
We have 100% power back up here in most apartments

Thanks for illustrating the point.

you can truly live life king size

In Chinese there is a saying, 井底之蛙 (jǐng dǐ zhī wā). https://www.echineselearning.com/blog/kids-chinese-learning-... (PS. I am not Chinese)

Re:Inexpensive Countries Where $2k/Month Buys the Good Life by ir123 on Friday June 11, 2021 @09:45AM (#27473223)
Frog in the well is a common saying and I don't think you sound as intellectual as you intend to.

The parent comment is correct though, you can most definitely get all the luxuries in life with $2000.

Nevertheless, your original post was racist. You generalized Indians to be people eating with their hands as if its a bad thing. Not to mention your insensitive comment about Indian food.

Do you have anything substantial to say? Or just covert racism?

Re:Inexpensive Countries Where $2k/Month Buys the Good Life by nunez on Friday June 11, 2021 @12:27PM (#27475337)
Eating with your hands actually enhances the flavor of some of the dishes out there. Don't knock it til you try it.

That said, getting packages from outside of India takes four weeks, and that sucks.

Re:Inexpensive Countries Where $2k/Month Buys the Good Life by ir123 on Friday June 11, 2021 @02:39AM (#27470041)
Can someone flag this for racism
Re:Inexpensive Countries Where $2k/Month Buys the Good Life by ghego1 on Friday June 11, 2021 @02:59AM (#27470157)
While the language is probably inappropriate, the contents are sadly not far from reality IMHO.

As per the food, I love Indian food, I eat very spicy and I love curry, peppers and hot spices in general, but I yet have to meet someone that has spent any significant amount of time in India eating Indian food without getting some form of diarrhea.

Re:Inexpensive Countries Where $2k/Month Buys the Good Life by ir123 on Friday June 11, 2021 @03:11AM (#27470225)
Whats wrong with eating with your hands?
Re:Inexpensive Countries Where $2k/Month Buys the Good Life by C19is20 on Friday June 11, 2021 @04:03PM (#27477774)
Where's the racism?
Re:Inexpensive Countries Where $2k/Month Buys the Good Life by neoplatonian on Saturday June 12, 2021 @02:18AM (#27482060)
The comment is mocking part of another culture (eating with one's hands). That's the racism.

Living under fear of being shot over an argument or your children being shot in school shootings or living where paedophiles or sex abuse runs amok in top institutions (Larry Nassar, Sandusky/Sports, Epstein/Hollywood, Clinton/Trump/Politics are just some high profile examples) or being screwed by inflated healthcare costs is also not most people's ideas of a good life, but no one here seems to be mocking American culture.

And hundreds of millions of Indians are perfectly happy with their lives in India, so it can be "most" people's ideas of a good life.

Re:Inexpensive Countries Where $2k/Month Buys the Good Life by contingencies on Friday June 11, 2021 @02:40AM (#27470048)
It's not racist. I love India. But one should be honest about the current state of the country. It's ... less than an ideal retirement spot.