Mumbai: expat population?

donkey

does anyone know how many expats are living in Mumbai, or where i can possibly find out that infomation? any websites ideas?

cheers,
michaela

Paagla Dashu

Many expats are members of the Breach Candy Club - contact them to find out about expat associations.

GoanCanuck

To become a member of the Breach Candy Club you have to be an extremely wealthy person. I doubt the average expat who is connected to the call centre industry is a member of the Breach Candy club.

rv224

Did a simple yahoo/google search:

http://american.meetup.com/20/
The Mumbai American Expat Meetup Group

http://brit.meetup.com/1/
The Mumbai British Expat Meetup Group

http://www.expatindia.com/index.htm
ExpatIndia.com

Here is an article about the Expat Club of Mumbai.
http://www.writercorporation.com/htm.../expatclub.asp

donkey

i meant more that i want to find out actual figures.. 10,000? 100,000? does anyone want to hazard a guess?

wonderwomanusa

>10,000? 100,000? <

Just curious: whom do you count as ex-pats? All non-Indians? Nepalis? Africans? Chinese? Americans? Eurpoeans? Indonesians? Afghans? I suspect Mumbai has people from every country on the planet...

agni5454

i think expats fall under non-indian (ethnically) category. Say Europeans, Chinese, Jews from Israel, etc.

Indians who migrated aboard are NRI and Indians born else where are IPOs. Even if they move back to India, not sure if they go under expat category :-)

Correct me if i am wrong.

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donkey

i suspect that is true also.. just like every other city on the planet..

and i meant all non-indians, which is what i thought the term expat meant..

TrinTrin

That's not true. Membership costs roughly $1500 per person per year . Most expats can afford such a membership. The club is a very liberal easy going place, not nearly as snobby as a lot of other clubs in the city.

I wouldn't be surprised though if the non expats who are members of the club most likely either have to be very rich or inherit their memberships. But the average upper middle class expat manager can definitely fit in there.

birds

Arabs from Israel or non-Jews from Israel don't count?

Indjun

I am a ninth generation Indian outside of India. I will be expating in India and had to go through the entire visa process. No doubt you can be an expat of Indian origin.