Hurray,
I hear your sentiments. But the culture in Kathmandu is a whole other animal. One of the things that I repeatedly hear about Kathmandu is that your individuality dissolves once you land there. The whole place runs on "who said what about who." Everyone has an opinion on you. And if you go against it, you are seen as arrogant. This is the problem with Kathmandu. In the States who can experiment with a lot of things, and if you fail, no one knows no one cares. In Nepal, even if you fail, you have to polish it in so many ways and learn to tell so many stories. You can brush 'what other people say' away, but it nags you in the back of your mind.

Also, I have many people say that Nepalese work a lot more harder in the States than they do in Nepal. I have heard people say, "if you work as hard in Nepal as you do in America, people could earn the kind of income they do in the States. Is there some truth to this?