One of the main reasons to go back is my family. We come from a holistic society and very often brag about our family values here in the west. However, while we talk big about how much we care and love our family, we just go back to our lonely apartment, commute to work and back everyday, worry about shifting to a better paying job, and talk to our parents once a week or sometimes more, sometimes less. For an outsider or a westerner, our claim about our family values just seems contradictory to our life style. I have very often met Nepalese who come from a well off family back in Nepal, living the same kind of life in US we hate, and yet dread to go back. Through my observations during my many years here in US and after meeting people from all walks of life, I have come to a bitter conclusion that, we come from a society that gives higher importance to money, career, social-status (pride), than to simple things in life like family and happiness. May be that is why it is very hard to find a person who wants to go back home just because he/she feels happy to be with his/her family while his family members would rather see him stay here and get that six figure salary job or that hefty bonus or finish that dissertation. After all, life is short and we should all enjoy it while we can; being with and doing things that make us happy is one way.