R2I

Husband and I have moved back to India for good and it has been more than 2 months since we came back. Back in singaara chennai (dont seem to find that charm of living in chennai anymore). 5yrs of living abroad and coming back to your country, sometimes I kind of feel alienated in my very own land. Traffic and cost of living is really gone beyond limits. Didnt seem to find cost of living this high even during my last India visit. The value of a 500 rupee note is just nothing. If you go to the vegetable market, you end up spending 300Rs for 4 ppl's worth of veggies, which will last for 2 meals. Thats all. This part has been quite shocking to both of us. Normally when we go to the US, you initially tend to convert anything that you buy, from dollar to rupee and gape telling this is so expensive here. Once we returned the other way round is going and we find the US a lot cheaper atleast in terms spending on your food and gas. Anyways after all this grumbling we are back for good and for some reason I really miss my apartment back in US. I miss it because, I so much had control of everything in my life and everything was so organised. That independence is something that I miss here. Especially in India you have lots of ppl to give you free advice and opinion about other people's life and problems. Shabba how do you guys manage in a joint family. It is so hard to deal with the fact that they treat you like a newly wed and keep telling, "you guys dont know anything and dont try to bring your US life style here".   Having them over for 6months in the US was much easier, since we both were working and I didnt had to listen to them everyday and every minute. I am sure some of you might be feeling this gal is too thadi that she cant even adjust with her ILs. Enna vena sollungapa enaala indha joint family business suthama mudiyala. Anyways that was one of the main reason I wanted to blog today, just to vent out my feelings to the blog world and feel light.