Posted by: newStudent January 18, 2011
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I think it is ironical that Agnibikram is accusing me of stressing on money. He is the one who calculates how much one can make all the time.
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.
Agni's portrayal of dire situation in Nepal relies on his assumptions that
(1) Roads will never constructed anymore.
(2) Consumer Price will keep on rising.
(3) Land price will either remain same or keep on increase. etc etc.
That's normally hardly the case. Anyone who has seen a city grow knows that (1) is not true. In Nepal too, roads have been made , it is just that they are not made in KTM. Agni's version of our country also means only KTM. But more than that, if educated people return, they will make road. They will inject some sanity in insane KTM where locals used oppose making another ringroad.
Nepal's consumer price rise has saddened me, but it has a flip side. If you own some land in village, you can actually make a decent money by raising cash crop. Rising food prices are the only way to make villagers/farmers well off. Furthermore, it is a phenomenon that has touched both India and China lately. When things become cheaper there, so will it in Nepal.
(3) is obviously not true, and the land price is reducing. You can get an apartment at about 20 + lakh. In America, long ago, they killed natives and took away their land. So,land is abundant here and one can buy land cheaply and make house cheaply except in the cities with land rationing (like San Francisco or more dense city like New York).
Now, look at this news that came a day or two ago: Nepal couldn't spend kharab of rupees (billions of dollars) given by donors. Rightnow, govt has money, donors are eager to give, but good engineers are scarce. You guys probably don't know but a hydropower engineer in Nepal (with MS degree, and 10 years of experience) makes almost Rs 2 Lakh per month.
The key is to identify which subject to study here. If you are a road engineer, sooner or later your day will come. If you are a hydropower engineer your day will come. I see big future for food engineers too as packaged food etc will have their day. But if you are doing PhD in lifesciences working on some species in Antarctica, I don't see how you will get any chance in Nepal that can satisfy you. When you are studying something, you will have to make sure that this has future in Nepal.
If you have a house in KTM, more or less ,your parents are now raking in Rs 50,000 per month, then I don't see why you should be afraid to go. With 1 Lakh per month, you will be able to visit American once in a while if your visa status is not screwed. Regarding car, I don't know why you need car in KTM. KTM should ban car in most of the places, introduce electrical vehicle. I used to live in Jawalakhel and walk all the way to Amrit Campus to take class about 20 years ago. KTM is a small city, we should really make driving car very expensive there, and promote bike riding and public bus riding.
I am not saying everyone has to go. Like I said, if you are a c-programmer, a nurse or so on, you should stay here if you like it here. It doesn't cost much to produce another c-programmer or nurse in Nepal. But if you are not enjoying here, you miss food or other environment there, or if you have some decent business plan, Nepal is not a bad place to go. In fact, it may even be a good place to make your career rightnow.
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.
Agni's portrayal of dire situation in Nepal relies on his assumptions that
(1) Roads will never constructed anymore.
(2) Consumer Price will keep on rising.
(3) Land price will either remain same or keep on increase. etc etc.
That's normally hardly the case. Anyone who has seen a city grow knows that (1) is not true. In Nepal too, roads have been made , it is just that they are not made in KTM. Agni's version of our country also means only KTM. But more than that, if educated people return, they will make road. They will inject some sanity in insane KTM where locals used oppose making another ringroad.
Nepal's consumer price rise has saddened me, but it has a flip side. If you own some land in village, you can actually make a decent money by raising cash crop. Rising food prices are the only way to make villagers/farmers well off. Furthermore, it is a phenomenon that has touched both India and China lately. When things become cheaper there, so will it in Nepal.
(3) is obviously not true, and the land price is reducing. You can get an apartment at about 20 + lakh. In America, long ago, they killed natives and took away their land. So,land is abundant here and one can buy land cheaply and make house cheaply except in the cities with land rationing (like San Francisco or more dense city like New York).
Now, look at this news that came a day or two ago: Nepal couldn't spend kharab of rupees (billions of dollars) given by donors. Rightnow, govt has money, donors are eager to give, but good engineers are scarce. You guys probably don't know but a hydropower engineer in Nepal (with MS degree, and 10 years of experience) makes almost Rs 2 Lakh per month.
The key is to identify which subject to study here. If you are a road engineer, sooner or later your day will come. If you are a hydropower engineer your day will come. I see big future for food engineers too as packaged food etc will have their day. But if you are doing PhD in lifesciences working on some species in Antarctica, I don't see how you will get any chance in Nepal that can satisfy you. When you are studying something, you will have to make sure that this has future in Nepal.
If you have a house in KTM, more or less ,your parents are now raking in Rs 50,000 per month, then I don't see why you should be afraid to go. With 1 Lakh per month, you will be able to visit American once in a while if your visa status is not screwed. Regarding car, I don't know why you need car in KTM. KTM should ban car in most of the places, introduce electrical vehicle. I used to live in Jawalakhel and walk all the way to Amrit Campus to take class about 20 years ago. KTM is a small city, we should really make driving car very expensive there, and promote bike riding and public bus riding.
I am not saying everyone has to go. Like I said, if you are a c-programmer, a nurse or so on, you should stay here if you like it here. It doesn't cost much to produce another c-programmer or nurse in Nepal. But if you are not enjoying here, you miss food or other environment there, or if you have some decent business plan, Nepal is not a bad place to go. In fact, it may even be a good place to make your career rightnow.