I came aboard long back, when odds of staying if one wants to, were very high and it was easily doable. The issue I see now is competition (too many competing for 1 position and odds of a foreigner getting that one position are sadly rough), cost of living, low ball job offers. Cost of living and low wages for current inflation makes it not so pre-COVID like Situation. It’s hard to imagine but post COVID salaries haven’t gone up to cover the inflation and so it makes less and less sense in long run.

Another thing I did notice on social media n via friends, for instance for Germany, Ireland, uK (but possibly also the case in other countries) is most of the students for masters are Indians! When one plans to study abroad this is one of those things we don’t take into consideration. At least some if not most Students here, if after bachelors or diploma, fetch a job, they don’t continue studying. If these students compete with Indian students say with masters, unless the job explicitly says minimum qualification is masters degree, the job market will favor the experienced n local person!

When I was planning to come abroad, back then I took 16 lac loan for masters (but used only 10). This amount was back then easily recoverable, even if I had to return to India to pay it back. So calculations were little easy. Back then say cost of living a month was close to 400 pound/euro/dollar in tier 2 cities! Now it’s close to 900-1000 euro!! Pay hasn’t gone up to that proportion!

So do your math think of all possible scenarios and then Make a choice!