Posted by: Bennedict May 24, 2023
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xkavre,
I agree to some of your arguments. I went to Nepal last year and witnessed that. Even in my relative circle, I saw most of the older generations there in Nepal with most of the younger lot abroad. Like when I visited my relatives' houses, I noticed they have like 3-4 storied house built, right and then they have rented out some floors and the others its only the old parents living in one of the floors and that too with several empty rooms there. All the rooms are clean and adorned with photographs and achievement certificates of their kids but the kids and their families nowhere around. Only old couples living in this big house alone!! I kind of got scared for them, what happens in case of emergencies, robberies?
I agree the craze is there for most of the young lot to go abroad and settle there, but you cannot say that every other young person is gone. There are a lot of innovations happening in there too spearheaded by younger lot. Especially in the field of media, online world, movies, TV world. Like last time I found online this studio working from Kathmandu who is making VFX for Hollywood movies, I was like "Really"?? I have seen a couple of my IT friends who are working in multinational IT projects remotely from home itself in Nepal. See there are people like them who are there. Not everyone wants to be abroad, right?
And to say that people like "us" who are abroad already are the motivation factor for newer generation to go abroad, may be it is true to some levels. There may be some connection, but we have to carve our own niche in life brother, not copy somebody else or envy others for what they have.