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A good house is critical to create a healthy home atmosphere…besides, housing expense is one of the big expense items that can suck away a good chunk of your income either for rent or EMI and can be an influencing factor for your saving potential and lifestyle too… In this article we will review the …
The ability to travel from one place to another is one of the key aspects to consider when you plan to relocate to a place. One should either be able to buy a car at a reasonable price, have the flexibility to maintain the same at a reasonable cost, and use the same to move …
It is very important to have proper infrastructure, roads and buildings, and public facilities in the place we live…This could be one of the key deciding factors in defining your lifestyle. As part of the Series Living in US vs Singapore, we will cover around this topic comparing America and Singapore so that it gives …
If you are from Southeast Asia or Indian subcontinent and have lived in America for quite a few years and plan to move back from US someday for one of the reasons like kids education, their upbringing in your cultural values, take care of parents, settle down in home country, etc., it could be quite …
Many of you, when you travel to a new country might wonder, if you can drink tap water in that country or not. If you from Asia, many do not suggest to drink tap water directly and they suggest to use a water filter or some purification mechanism. But, when you go to developed countries …
Many of the internationals, especially Asians from the sub-continent, tend to speak English so fast that the American counterparts may not understand a thing. It may sound quite normal for the person speaking, but Americans may not comprehend much as you are speaking fast. Lets see why it is important to speak slowly and how …
When I moved to the US for the first time for education, I used to compare the prices in USA with prices in India, which is my home country. It was NOT just me, I noticed the same thing with many of the students as well. Also, when I started to work and got acquainted …
One of the most important decisions when you start to work on H1B Visa or L1 Visa in America is to decide if you should buy a car, even if you plan NOT to buy an expensive car like Audi or Porsche. There are many benefits of owning a car…if you are planning on saving …
Washing clothes is a very trivial thing, but when I landed in US for the first time, I was not sure how it would work. I have seen new students and professionals wash clothes/ undergarments in a bath tub and hang them in the house, which would stink the entire house as it most of …
One of our readers Praveen posted this nice write up as a comment. Publishing it as article as it would help others. Thanks to Praveen for sharing his thoughts. You can share your experiences/thoughts by submitting article here . Things to do Before and After Entering America 1. Flight Tickets : After you get your …