This has come up in five threads now: I live in India. Mumbai, in fact. I'm here for the Government. [View all]

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It's a little bit irritating. I put up with a lot of shit working for the US Government in foreign countries. Dengue Fever comes to mind. As does the Bubonic Plague. But, putting those aside, the level of hostility from this board has also been kind of depressing.

My wife is a quite accomplished U.S. diplomat. She has been promoted twice ahead of her seniority.

I do routers and switches. I'm good at that -- damn good at that -- but not as good as she is at diplomacy. So we're following her dream right now, and I fortunately have some skills to tag along. I even managed to land a US Government job here (US Government IT! Yesterday's solutions tomorrow!)

My larger point is, I find it quite irksome that in an alleged Democratic message board, I'm attacked for being "from India" despite the fact that I'm not "from" here in any reasonable sense of the word "from".

Anyways, America's richness does not depend upon India staying poor. There is a way through this for all of us. Peace.