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I don't really see the appeal for a lot of these migrants coming to the west. Indians who could be making 2000 dollars a month which goes a very long way in India become underpaid engineers in the UK where their after tax salary ends up being 3000 dollars which barely covers rent. My Indian colleagues love sharing photos of the beautiful houses they grew up in, their gardeners bringing in daily tropical fruit and all the family life they have back home. In their new country they live in a cramped apartment in a semi-ghetto.
My predictions is that we are going to see an exodus to India which won't just consist of Indians. Northern European weather is awful, taxes and regulations are high and the cost of living is through the roof. It is better to move to your Indian employees than to move Indians to Europe.
People mock Slough for being a shithole, but a random residential panorama from there looks like this.
The least impoverished state in India is commie Kerala, and a random residential panorama from its capital... let me paste that... Thiruvananthapuram looks like this, which is not a shithole, but it's not the kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism that will sway American NIMBYs either.
If we go to India proper, aka BIMARU, then the situation looks even worse: a random panorama from Delhi looks like this and I've cheated because Delhi is not technically a BIMARU state. Here's one from a random town in UP.
This is a very nice middle class street in England, though. One of those 3-bedroom semi-detached houses costs $770,000. The people who are buying those homes today (not 20 years ago) are like young dual-income software engineer or lawyer or accountant couples (especially given the state of British salaries) .For the same price, ie. 65 million rupees or 6.5 crore rupees, you can buy something much nicer than that in Thiruvananthapuram, at least according to some property websites I just googled.
Obviously India's big problem is squalor, even in wealthy neighborhoods, but presumably this bothers Indian expats less. The interiors of the homes are usually spotless, in any case.
Some of our American friends here may not realize when looking on the street that each of those buildings is not one house, but two houses that share a wall in the middle. That half of a building is what's costing three quarters of a million dollars. It's twice as crowded a street as you might think it is if you're only considering one full building as a single house.
Duplexes are a thing in America, although they do not generally cater to the crowd that buys three quarter million dollar houses.
This is location dependent.
There are new-build duplex 'condominium' in an HOA in our small NE town for $669k (2 bed 2.5 bath 2,165 sqft.)
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