R2I in 2013? What you should be doing now?

I covered this topic around the same time last year. What you should be doing now for R2I in 2013 is not going to be much different from what summarized during last year.

If you have not read that post, here it is again:
http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4278261385449268301#editor/target=post;postID=7473379386101222317

If you have school going kids, you should have settled on a school by now. If not, there is still time - make sure you use the holiday time to pick a school, talk to the school admin and settle down.

If your kids are not yet school going, your priority would be to sell/rent your house there and pick a location and start filtering down where you would like to stay in the city of your choice. Commuting is not fun (not just long but not fun either) in most of the cities here. So, make some progress on that front.

Of course, there is no better time to cleanup the items. Now is the best time to start to selling unwanted stuff and accumulating what you are going to need once you R2I - this is the shopping season as well in US and other countries.

If you are still debating, settle the debate. Possibly my post on R2I decision assessment would be of help:
http://r2idiaries.blogspot.in/2011/12/r2i-or-nr2i-not-to-r2i-dilemma-take.html

Good luck with your R2I efforts ...

Overall feeling after 4 months of R2I ...

After 4 months of stay here, time to sum up the overall feeling. I should say it has been a mixed bag. We know there are some things which won't change in our life time here in India and we have to get used to - like general cleanliness of the surrondings in India(people keep their homes neat, I doubt we would see any home that packed with things like some of the homes in US but as soon as they get out to street, that mentality changes in the opposite direction!), random traffic, drivers not respecting the pedestrians, clean water supply, minimal pollution etc.

However, there are lots of positive things as well - it is a joy to see the kids playing with their cousins and getting pampered from their grandparents. They are not just kids - they are related to somebody and try to understand the links (questions like how am I related to so and so we met is a common question from our first one). Also, being born here, it always feels like your own place - you don't feel you are outsider and that makes your heart lighter. At work, there is not much pressure of getting laid off the next day. You feel like you are working with your own people - of course, there is always the company politics etc which wouldn't go off that easily but that is something to be taken as part of life ...


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