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I actually had the experience of living in a Diverse (actually not diverse, as almost all were whites) neighborhood. Very few kids in neighborhood. We stayed there for 7 years, but felt isolated and very sad to see kid with no one to play with in evenings. Ended up playing video games all the time ...

A few unknown variables here for me. First is your heating electric as well (do you even need heat that)? Consumption can vary depending on the weather. For example if it is colder, your heater will consume more electricity as it has to work harder. Also, did anything change between the time you ...

How about summer - when US schools are closed for 2 months. You can have the family in India for the summer. They can come back for the new school session and you can join them a month or 2 later - so that make 8-9 moths in US and 3-4 months in India, without any disrupion to the Kids schooling.

Hi genaccmiller , Sorry to hear that you had to go through these situations. If I can be blunt I will say you have to 'suck it up' and move on now. Another thing I will say is that some of the situations do not seem as bad as you have made them out to be : ->.2.9 % raise ?? I got no raise last year ...

I would strongly recommend signing up with a credit monitoring service, at least for a few months.

Maybe its time to simply ask for a raise from the employer ? Until you ask you will never get it...so don't keep quite. Negotiate..negotiate. Having said that, like many others in this forum, I also do not believe you have any case against the employer. The employer is free to offer you what he ...

[QUOTE=mn_op;262871]Singapore is a great place. One doesn't have to pay much for utilities there.[/QUOTE]

and how about the salaries in Singapore ? Its always the cost of living that matters more. If you have a high salary, you don't mind paying 'more for utilities'.

[QUOTE=Tweedledee;300039]YOU dont want her to work? SO typical of the indian IT worker. You not letting her work is the source of her depression.[/QUOTE] It would seem that way for this post. I think the OP also said somewhere that it was their 'combined desicion'. In any case, OP should not ...

[QUOTE=desipardesi;278390]Agree. Vonage is good. And the call forward feature allows one to call India from anywhere in U.S from your cellphone[/QUOTE] Hi, Can you explain how this feature works ? I thought call forwarding only allowed me to forward my incoming calls to another phone. What you are ...

I think the passage of the Health Care reform bill is a good thing. I also think this may be good news for people who may have thought of bringing parents on GC to live with them in US, but did not do so because of the prohibitive cost of medical insurance. With the passage of this bill, parents ...