MY US VISIT

Folks, I just want to share with you my experiences in current  US visit .  I am a typical married Indian IT guy spending time here on short term visit. My  main objective is to finish the job at the earliest  inorder to be with my family back home. Sometimes things are not completely under our control. The stay got extended by 3 weeks.  I had to take it with pinch of Salt.

During this stay I got a chance to visit three different places in US that are LA, West springfield (MA)  and DC. I was staying in a suburb called Northridge City near LA.  Northridge hosts Indian community and you find many Indian restaurants and Stores.  But I didn’t find Indians compared to Bay Area. The California Bay area is just like mini India (every body say like that).  LA is pretty costly in terms of real estate. This is OK for Indians like me who come and go but not for those green card aspiring types. They really have to make lots of $s to afford a house here.  J spent my time on weekends visiting shopping malls etc. Couldn’t do much sight seeing…

From LA I came to DC as our client had corporate office here. Infact I also pushed to have a look at US Capital . I stayed in the past in CA for 2 years and hence wanted to experience life in EAST of US. The blacks form a majority of the community here.  One of the black cabby told me that Ethiopians form the majority of the black community here.  Lot of them still come here to US on Lottery Visa. According to this you will receive GC directly.  I don’t know if Indians and Indian Gov is aware of this.  Otherwise we would have inlude that as a clause in Nuclear deal. This particular cabby is not happy with US and praising a lot on Indian food and movies.  Most of the African countries it seems are exposed to Indain culture due to some Indian population settled there long ago. He played the song ……Goron Ki Na Kalonki… for me in the cab. The other time an old taxi driver from Ghana is calling names on Ethiopians. No wonder Africans fight amongst each other. I forgot to tell you, I had one old papaji (not sardar but looks Sindhi) as my taxi driver.  He drove me extra miles as was confused on the route. To my surprise he gave me concession on the fare too.  This old man says India is best for old age. Every year he goes to India etc…

I read some where some body wrote that if he asked to make a wish then he would wish for US as a neighbour…

To be contd.