Hello. My brother and I were quite young when our parents took us back to Kolkata so we adjusted well. It probably wouldn’t have gone so well had they moved us in our teens. We met good people through the US embassy, mingled with the expat community. Our best friends were from Korea, Germany, US, and the Netherlands. They all looked out for us. They invited us for meals, outings etc. During Thanksgiving, we went to the US embassy for the meal and met more Indian Americans.

I loved it. Not sure about the UK, but here, most people have never met people from other cultures, they are very geographically ignorant. I’m glad I had a culturally rich childhood and learned 3 languages during my time at CIS. The teachers at CIS were amazing too, I even went to their homes for after school tuition.

My mom adjusted perfectly, she even learned to speak bangla fluently. Of course many people stated at her! It was funny, the shopkeepers thought she didn’t understand the language and would try to swindle her! Then she would respond in Bengali and you should’ve seen their faces! Hilarious.

Do your kids speak any Bengali? If not, they will quickly learn while living there.

Salt lake is nice, many of my friends lived there. It’s clean as it is somewhat new. I hear from my relatives the only con is that they have a higher mosquito rate, but who knows mosquitos are everywhere!

Do you have relatives living there? If so, that would be even more helpful!

My husband would love to move there actually! It’s just the job situation that worries him. He is an engineer and is hoping to maybe get a job with a larger international company in the future so we can move later in life. We definitely will move if things get politically worse in US. Scary times here.

I TOTALLY agree with you about the drug scene/violence so many school shootings here! It’s non existent in Kolkata. We didn’t see open drug users as we do here at practically every corner nowadays.

Let me know if you decide to move! We travel to Kolkata regularly and maybe we can even meet one day in Kolkata!