Comments on: Sitting out the recession in India http://www.tripbase.com/blog/sitting-out-the-recession-in-india/ Tripbase Travel Blog Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:05:30 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: william http://www.tripbase.com/blog/sitting-out-the-recession-in-india/comment-page-1/#comment-260 william Fri, 06 Mar 2009 16:48:45 +0000 http://www.tripbase.com/blog/?p=50#comment-260 Pradeep you must be crazy. India is the freest and safest place to visit. I am a missionary from the USA People help you instinctively. my car broke down and I had a young wife and with a 2 year old daughter. On an isolated highway, seven cars and four trucks stopped and gave me help. In fact a family travelling in a station wagon took my wife and kid to town and one person stayed with me till my car was OK. amazing. The mechanic did not even charge me. And this was Bihar --the worst state. Pradeep you must be crazy. India is the freest and safest place to visit. I am a missionary from the USA

People help you instinctively. my car broke down and I had a young wife and with a 2 year old daughter.

On an isolated highway, seven cars and four trucks stopped and gave me help. In fact a family travelling in a station wagon took my wife and kid to town and one person stayed with me till my car was OK.

amazing. The mechanic did not even charge me. And this was Bihar –the worst state.

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]]> By: joelask http://www.tripbase.com/blog/sitting-out-the-recession-in-india/comment-page-1/#comment-177 joelask Tue, 16 Dec 2008 08:53:05 +0000 http://www.tripbase.com/blog/?p=50#comment-177 Ok pradeep, I know India isnt quite as safe as the U.S., and I live in San Francisco. But I have traveled around India on two different trips. The first for two months, and the second for six months, and you know what I felt perfectly safe, and had an amazing adventure on both. The first time my parents took me and my two brothers when we where 10, 14, and 17 and it was an amazing experience. One of the best I had as a child. The second time was my honeymoon with my wife. Yes it is more dangerous than living your day to day life in the U.S., but are we not alive to experience life. I think traveling is the essence of being alive, it allows you to experience new cultures and bring personal growth like almost no other activity in life. Lets not forget the random violence in the US, the drive by shootings, and of course 911. If you want to live your life comfortably numb go ahead. I for one cant wait for my next adventure :) Ok pradeep, I know India isnt quite as safe as the U.S., and I live in San Francisco.

But I have traveled around India on two different trips. The first for two months, and the second for six months, and you know what I felt perfectly safe, and had an amazing adventure on both. The first time my parents took me and my two brothers when we where 10, 14, and 17 and it was an amazing experience. One of the best I had as a child. The second time was my honeymoon with my wife.

Yes it is more dangerous than living your day to day life in the U.S., but are we not alive to experience life. I think traveling is the essence of being alive, it allows you to experience new cultures and bring personal growth like almost no other activity in life.

Lets not forget the random violence in the US, the drive by shootings, and of course 911. If you want to live your life comfortably numb go ahead. I for one cant wait for my next adventure :)

]]> By: pradeep http://www.tripbase.com/blog/sitting-out-the-recession-in-india/comment-page-1/#comment-176 pradeep Mon, 15 Dec 2008 23:01:05 +0000 http://www.tripbase.com/blog/?p=50#comment-176 You get what you pay for. I'm an Indian, and if I was in your place I wouldn't do this. (Not trying to sound inhospitable - if you really want to come here you're most welcome). There's no 911. Get run over by a car, or set your house on fire and you're on your own. The majority of people who die in automobile accidents in India don't die in the accident itself - they bleed to death lying on the road where they got hit. There's no enforcement of standards. That nice bottle of water you bought might have been bottled in someone's backyard from tap water. There probably isn't a single city anywhere in the country that has 24 hours of uninterrupted electricity supply a day. There isn't much of a rule of law. The cops might help you, they might just as likely steal your money and send you on your way. Politicians are above the law. If you get run over by a minister's car, or if you are a pretty white female and you get assaulted by the minister's son, you can pretty much lick your wounds and go back home. Rather than look for an easy out, in your place, I would just grit my teeth and work two jobs or something like that. You get what you pay for.
I’m an Indian, and if I was in your place I wouldn’t do this. (Not trying to sound inhospitable – if you really want to come here you’re most welcome).

There’s no 911. Get run over by a car, or set your house on fire and you’re on your own. The majority of people who die in automobile accidents in India don’t die in the accident itself – they bleed to death lying on the road where they got hit.

There’s no enforcement of standards. That nice bottle of water you bought might have been bottled in someone’s backyard from tap water.

There probably isn’t a single city anywhere in the country that has 24 hours of uninterrupted electricity supply a day.

There isn’t much of a rule of law. The cops might help you, they might just as likely steal your money and send you on your way. Politicians are above the law. If you get run over by a minister’s car, or if you are a pretty white female and you get assaulted by the minister’s son, you can pretty much lick your wounds and go back home.

Rather than look for an easy out, in your place, I would just grit my teeth and work two jobs or something like that.

]]> By: gregorylent http://www.tripbase.com/blog/sitting-out-the-recession-in-india/comment-page-1/#comment-175 gregorylent Mon, 15 Dec 2008 14:28:41 +0000 http://www.tripbase.com/blog/?p=50#comment-175 and people who already figured this out are polluting india like you would not believe .. please stay home and people who already figured this out are polluting india like you would not believe .. please stay home

]]> By: dobbs http://www.tripbase.com/blog/sitting-out-the-recession-in-india/comment-page-1/#comment-174 dobbs Mon, 15 Dec 2008 12:15:24 +0000 http://www.tripbase.com/blog/?p=50#comment-174 Yeah.... it's the whole getting unfortunately caught up in 300 people being burned alive on a train types of things that keeps me from wanting to live in India. Visit, yes...live..no... Yeah….

it’s the whole getting unfortunately caught up in 300 people being burned alive on a train types of things that keeps me from wanting to live in India. Visit, yes…live..no…

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