Democrats Abroad

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I could be wrong but I would guess that a fair amount of Indians who are U.S. citizens are moving back to India in their retirement (anyone have any numbers for me). Social Security checks alone (which according to my previous entry, we don’t collect as often as we should) would allow you to live a fairly comfortable life in India. Many of my relatives who have lived in this country for over 30 years, are doing just this sort of thing. My point is that there is probably going to be an increasing number of U.S. citizens living in India. Perhaps with this new trend in mind, two U.S. citizens, Sumana Brahman, who is of Indian origin, and Patti Madigan, along with some other volunteers, have started the India chapter of Democrats Abroad, which targets expatriates and encourages them to vote. As reported by the Economic Times:

They have a simple message for Americans residing here — “every vote counts”. “Look at what happened during the ’00 presidential elections. Things went to the wire and in states like Florida, the absentee ballots decided the fate of the candidates,” Ms Brahman, who has been working as a consultant in India for some time, said.

There are 7m American expatriates worldwide, who are eligible to vote. “The number is more than in some US states,” she says.

However, Ms Brahman dispels notions that the group is a supporter of the Democratic party as its name may suggest. “We are just private citizens. While we do support the Kerry campaign personally, our target now is to enlist as many people as possible without consideration of their party affiliations,” she says.

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  2. My brother in law who is a US citizen did that too. He moved back to India, Initially he tried starting his own company and had a hard time dealing with corruption and bureaucracy in india. Now he works for US based company which pays him in dollars and he gets to live in india. Since a dollar is almost 45 rupess (conversion) people can have luxurious lives in india , so a lot of young people are preferring that. Now a days they say you get everything that you get here in US in india too and as Manish says they all live in NRI special housing colonies with even swimming pools and modern apartments designed just like the apartments here in US. Though its very hard to survive there with so much corruption, bureaucracy, over crowded trafffic/cities and people. BTW thanks for the census Data article Abhi, that’s a good one.

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