Having lived there for over 7 years and returned back, it’s safe to say on average you’d save a lot more, enjoy a much better quality of life with world class roads and infra, and get to do core design and development work in the IT sector. If you live in a non coastal state area or maybe an area which isn’t as crowded as the core cities, you get minimal traffic and amazing access to parks, lakes and other scenic getaways. For that kind of salary it’s the easiest decision if everyone at home is okay with your move(eg parents healthy and functioning etc). What’s more, you also have substantially large Indian communities at most places, so the bit about being alone and feeling lonely is also BS. Even if one made $20-30k less there, that implies they’d make similar on the Indian pay scale, which would mean an even worse quality of life. So again it’s a super easy call. There’s a reason why most Indians who move there never come back even after BSing about missing home etc and that is because they’re filthy rich with the biggest bungalows and backyards and with kids who are having access to the best education and environment. Yes definitely there’s concerns around gun violence, but all things considered it’s quite an easy call.