We have all answered that question, "Why did you come back?"
We have all been looked at strangely by peers in the US, "Are you really NOT applying for a Green Card?"
We are that special tribe of people who decided to leave the Big Mac behind and embrace our idli dosa at home. We are those who swore we would never again take a 15-hour flight everytime we wanted to visit our homeland. We are those who chose to embrace our 'desh ki mitti' for all its milavat and masti.
Yes, we are the people who have chosen to come back from the USA to settle down in India and raise our kids the way we grew up.
But we are human after all, and so not without our flaws. We fall back once in a while and miss our life back there. Let us be honest, there are times when we have caught ourselves saying, "How I wish we were back in (Insert name of US city here)!
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