Posted by: hamrochautari November 23, 2015
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Real problem moving back home after living years abroad is not lack of infrastructure. Of course its inconvenient at times but you always have alternatives. Have your own car, have solar, inverter and a/c at home. And you are all set, as far as luxury goes.
Real problem I found during my last visit was with the way people think over there. I will try to list out some of the stuffs I personally saw during my 1 month stay.
1. Value of life - people don't value their life as much as they should. Especially at this time, public bus are carrying passengers more than twice their capacity, in the roof and hanging on the door. There are numerous accidents where many people are dead. Still people don't think twice to get into the bus they know are over crowded. Once accident happens there is no investigation on what went wrong. It's insane how lightly people take take risk at every step of life.
2. Waste of resources - Useful time is being wasted in getting basic things. People in line to get gas, oil, paying electricity bills, every government office has huge unmanaged line. Everywhere there is waste of time. Shopping takes alot of time in Nepal because of bargaining at every shop. If you dont know how to bargain you will get ripped off. Things that can be done easily online takes up your whole day. You will see people in the streets just standing there doing nothing. Just wasting time.
3. Insane inflation of money - If you think few grand american dollar is alot of money in Nepal, you are wrong. The amount of inflation in last 5-6 years is insane. Cost of living and food can be compared with developed countries. For Example, 2 liter of Coke bottle costs less than $2 in US, but it costs about 200 Rs, over there. Rending a apartment in Kathmandu costs as much as some of the cities in US. Even price of momo went up to 150 above. How can people surviving where average monthly income is less than Rs 25,000.
4. Concept of living - Found it very interesting that success to Nepali people is building a nice house or buying land that they will never use. Even my parents are building a new house just for the shake of having new house. They save every penny, never go out for dinner, barely go for vacation so that they collect jewelry and buy house. If someones son buy new house, everyone thinks he is the most successful and everyone gossips about how they used to be poor. Society is very materialistic. Enjoying life and being prosperous is entirely different concept in Nepal.
Real problem I found during my last visit was with the way people think over there. I will try to list out some of the stuffs I personally saw during my 1 month stay.
1. Value of life - people don't value their life as much as they should. Especially at this time, public bus are carrying passengers more than twice their capacity, in the roof and hanging on the door. There are numerous accidents where many people are dead. Still people don't think twice to get into the bus they know are over crowded. Once accident happens there is no investigation on what went wrong. It's insane how lightly people take take risk at every step of life.
2. Waste of resources - Useful time is being wasted in getting basic things. People in line to get gas, oil, paying electricity bills, every government office has huge unmanaged line. Everywhere there is waste of time. Shopping takes alot of time in Nepal because of bargaining at every shop. If you dont know how to bargain you will get ripped off. Things that can be done easily online takes up your whole day. You will see people in the streets just standing there doing nothing. Just wasting time.
3. Insane inflation of money - If you think few grand american dollar is alot of money in Nepal, you are wrong. The amount of inflation in last 5-6 years is insane. Cost of living and food can be compared with developed countries. For Example, 2 liter of Coke bottle costs less than $2 in US, but it costs about 200 Rs, over there. Rending a apartment in Kathmandu costs as much as some of the cities in US. Even price of momo went up to 150 above. How can people surviving where average monthly income is less than Rs 25,000.
4. Concept of living - Found it very interesting that success to Nepali people is building a nice house or buying land that they will never use. Even my parents are building a new house just for the shake of having new house. They save every penny, never go out for dinner, barely go for vacation so that they collect jewelry and buy house. If someones son buy new house, everyone thinks he is the most successful and everyone gossips about how they used to be poor. Society is very materialistic. Enjoying life and being prosperous is entirely different concept in Nepal.