people like newstudets make me sad. Everythng they say are hard facts and truth coming down from the sky and everything others say are general assumptions.and we have to live with that if we want harmony or else should hide out tails be in some corner lets's see some of the assumptions made in this thread:

"GC is taken for granted--because as far as I see, almost every Nepali around me have by now applied and received their greencard. Let's face it, lawyers who visit Sajha do so to make people greencard. I know graduate students have worked as legal councillor and made tons of money on these green card scam here. Furthermore, almost everyone except decent Nepali student working his ass off in a college town middle of nowhere seem to have greencard."

oh ya? i asked you where you lived because where i live i still see lots of illegal Nepalis working in restaurants and students hoping to land jobs who can sponsor them. Arent's you generalizing here saying that almost all Nepalis have received green cards by fake asylum because you happen to be around with those people. I live in a metro city and i still see lots of students without papers working for dhotis as slaves.

" I knew this guy, Ichha Raj Tamang, came from remote district, and started a housing business and is now a billionaire. The owner of Bhatbhateni mall, Min Bahadur Gurung, too came from remote district and became almost billionaire. It is not easy to succeed in Nepal, I agree, but there are tons of people with new ideas who have worked hard to succeed, and in succeeding, not only did they make money for themselves, they also changed the way we live in KTM."

There is no point of saying i know this guy and i know that guy. we are talking about US graduates with degrees going to Nepal in 2011 in general.some of us may be exceptionally talented and or lucky and can even make it in North korea but most of us if we do not have family ties with influentials and enough capital our dreams are to die in Nepal.  The Bhatbhateni guy was there 25 year ago to start his business and i don't know the other guy you told me about. I do know my cousion who started a really big business and now he is losing his 3 houses and land in Katmandu with banks. i also know other 10 -15 people who havie lost their everything trying to be an "elite" of kathmandu. Just because it has worked with some of your friends and MR. Tamang does not mean it will work out for everyone who returns from the US to succeed in Nepal. We personally don't know what kind of background, circumstances, support they had to r succeed. and again we can't generalize for everyone basing on one or two of your friends.
so stop assss uming yourself first. 
 
we all are talking general things here. all i can do like others is to talk something out of my personal experence and from the experence of the people who i know. When i said 6 ropanis land and like 10 carore in capital to start a business that means you need to have around that kind of capital to get loans or t0 invest into a mid -sized business if you want to buy a decent car and have a decent house as you are used to of by living in the USA. of course, you can always open a little grocery pasal or a small restaurant for less capital if thats what you mean by becoming a successful businessman. or like agni ji said, you can always do yoga and meditation to be happy.