electrical outlets in India

sunspirt

here's a stupid question but do most homes in dharmsala have electrity? it's not exactly a google worthy question but I want to know what to expect when I move there. And are the outlits the same as american ones? Stupid I know but it's best not to be ignorant

Nick-H

Have you heard of carts and horses, and do you know what order they should come in?

I only ask on account of the three questions I've seen from you, which indicate that you want to live in India, but don't know much about it....

dzibead

You aren't even out of high school yet, and you've never even visited India (and can't be bothered to use Google to find even basic information that any travel guide would include), but you want to "move" there??? Specifically to Dharamsala???

Not to rain on your parade but (... well, actually, precisely to rain on your parade ...) I'm afraid you are caught up in some unrealistic fantasy.

But first to answer your questions: yes, homes in Dharamsala have electricity and, no, neither the plugs nor the voltage level are the same as in the U.S.

But back to more fundamental issues: on what basis you expect to be able to "move" to India? I assume you mean "move" as in "immigrate". Unfortunately for you, India has no immigration scheme. Unless you qualify as a "Person of Indian Origin" (which I strongly suspect you do not) and can thereby get a PIO card, which is in effect a long-term visa, you will not be able simply to move to India.

If you could qualify for an employment visa (which, I'm sorry to tell you, no one who has only a high school diploma would be able to get in a million years), you could get a visa that could be extended for the duration of your employment. If you enroll in a legitimate educational institution, you could qualify for a student visa, which is only good for as long as you are enrolled as a student, but as far as I know, there's nothing in Dharamsala that would fit the bill.

So pretty much the only option open to you is a tourist visa. Although Americans can qualify for ten-year tourist visas, a person with this kind of visa (like all Indian tourist visas) must still leave the country at least every 180 days (expensive and inconvenient) and cannot work legally while in the country or otherwise be considered a "resident".

As a recent high school graduate, how do you think you would be able to support yourself if you "moved" to Dharamsala? What would you plan to do there? And why Dharamsala, which is essentially a Tibetan theme park/tourist trap? Perhaps you think it's some sort of shanthi Buddhist Shangri-La because the Dalai Lama lives there. If so, you're in for a shock. I recommend that you rent the film "Dreaming Lhasa." Beneath the melodrama of the story, it gives a very good picture of contemporary Dharamsala/McLeod Ganj. ("We're No Monks" is another good one for this, if you can manage to find it.) And as you're watching the film(s), ask yourself why so many young Tibetans who live there are knocking themselves out to try to get to the country you plan to leave.

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Sama

man, and people say I'M a tough broad!

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dzibead

Sorry, but I'm feeling kinda cranky because I just came off explaining to some 34-year-old guy who was born in a foreign country but who has lived in the U.S. since he was 14, why he is NOT a U.S. citizen (as he believed) just because his father was. The guy's going to end up being deported to a country he hasn't lived in since he was a kid and understandably he's not a happy camper. So I get just a a little impatient with people (teenaged or otherwise) who blithely think they can just "move" to India, especially when they've never set foot in the country before. Also, better that "sunspirt" should get the reality check now rather than after having invested another year in the fantasy, when the shock of disappointment is only likely to be worse.

PeakXV

No - but the dimlits are.

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Nick-H

Poor Sunspirt... It's a tough world.

How old is about-to-graduate-from-high-school in USA?

Sama

17 or 18 years old. I was 18, graduated in June and moved out 6 months later. never went back. as I said before, I commend her on wanting to fly, but times are definitely different now than they were in the early '70s when I flew the coop.

nowadays children live at home until they're 30 and their parents pay their phone bills, credit card bills, buy them cars, do their laundry, and feed them. then they go on talk shows looking for advice on how to get their kids to move out.

Nick-H

Well, if she posts on a matrimonial site, I'm sure that thousands of men, with an American archetype in mind (Blonde, buxom, bouncy and beautiful and with superb teeth and called Randy*) will be salivating like mad.

Hopefully, a few of them might even have marriage in mind. Might not be quite such a dream as she expects, though.




*I did once, a long time ago, actually know a genuine buffy-the-vampire-slayer-type American woman. No, damnit, twice! So you must all be like that!



Sunspirt... none of us discourage dreaming, but there is reality too.

Haylo

Yes, but the ironic thing is that they will all want to live in America!

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Nick-H

I'd forgotten that small, and very true, detail!

dzibead

Yeah, and if she ends up in Dharamsala, as far as all the young Tibetan guys there are concerned, she might as well have "Ticket to America" tattooed across her forehead.

If sunspirt wants to spread her wings at age 17-18, she should just plan a nice trip to India. If she were doing that, she'd be getting a considerably different response here.

dzibead

Er, well. Not ALL of them.

Haylo

Maybe not, but the difference is that in the UK, even though many are trapped living with their parents due to totally outrageous property prices ($300,000 for a one bedroom apartment and that's not even in London), a 30 year old's parents buying them a car and paying their phone and credit card bills would be seen as totally bizarre, and a sign that there's something wrong with the "child", whereas in the US it appears to be viewed as far from unusual, if not totally normal!

Well done with post #3 by the way, sometimes a reality check is needed!