OK so regardless of who the thread was directed at, here's what comes out.
The question get asked "foreign based would you move back"
Foreign based say no, none of that for me I ent like what I see/read/ hear/ Not the right time for me to move back, I based here, family here. Man get slammed for answering the question because local based dont like the answer.
Local based saying allyuh stupid for leaving and even more stupid for not wanting to come back.
Man talking bout foreign based should come home and make a change. You really feel that will work? Who we going and fine to work an honest living? Import guyanese? Reading through this thread, there is a common theme, it have people who want it easy and dont want to work. Whats the use of coming back and trying to do good if you would hardly a reliable workforce? Peep will want to roll in whenever, take 2 hour lunches and leave at noon on friday. And don't say is the Trini way because if you talking bout coming back and making a change ent some of the work habits have to change too? All of you who like it easy and like you half a day friday and you not paying your water/electric bill and cussing the man who come to disconnect so bad he leave and ent disconnect, would you really be willing to give that up in the name of progress?
I was looking into coming back and starting one of those call centers. You know how if you based in US and you call tech support or your credit card info or customer service, you get india? I was looking into doing something like that at home.
I get put in meh place, when it was pointed out to me, that given the type of verbal abuse some of them call centers does take from frustrated customers, and they still manage to remain polite and say thank you very much, someone ask me if I really feel that type of thing will work in T&T. Rep get cuss by a frustated customer, and will cuss them back, and the number one rule of customer service is "the customer is always right" All it would take would be one angry rep cussing out a customer to lose the whole department. Then they brought up to me the chronic lateness Trini have. Shift supposed to start at 8, trini roll in at 9:30. How you go run a business like that. And allyuh know that is the way it is. If a man show initiative, he go get talk down for making fellow co-workers look bad. Read the thread. So scratch that idea. Nobody want to do a job where you start at the bottom and work your way up, everyone want to start on top and get paid big dollar. barring that, they going tief you.
In answer to the question would you move back, for me temporarily yes for the sake of the kid's schooling, permanently right now, no. One of the kids already in school in Trini the next one is old enough now and if we send her, I will go too to be with both of them and before anyone start jumping on me bout taking advantage of the "free education", the boy go private school. It ent cheap in T&T but with the conversion rate it sure as hell cheaper than the tuition here for good private schools. Here for one child cost as much as my car. So we got a good school, small, private in Trini. At the end of the year, I ent even paying quarter of what I would pay here. But the education better.
Other than school, from an economic standpoint, if me and the man move here together, we will take a huge loss. I check the hospitals and private clinics for him and the money not there. If I move back, I ent coming home to take it easy and relax, I coming to have a good life for my family. That requires work. Based on what we saw, and the real estate prices and the salaries that were offered for both of us in our fields, it better to stay US work hard, buy a house in TT pay it off and retire there in a few years. If I come with the other child, then based on what we saw, it better for him to stay US and work and send the yankee dollar. IS not that I ent want to return. is just based on what I see, I dont think it makes sense. No use coming to try and make a change if the society ent want it.