Reverse Geek migration
This is cute -- from
Slashdot comes this link to a
BBC article about Euro people visiting India, getting hired on for tech outsourcing positions and sating on. Lousy salary from Western standards but very cheap and nice to live there. From the BBC article:
bq. The big hall fills with the cacophony of different languages - English, French, German, Dutch, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish, Spanish.
bq. European companies may be outsourcing work to Indian firms but in one Delhi-based call centre it's Europeans who make up a fair number of the workforce.
bq. "It's so different from Europe - the culture and the way you live - and I think it's fantastic," says Marie Blomquist from Stockholm.
bq. "People are so friendly and the food is awesome, everything is great."
And more:
bq. And although the employees are paid local salaries, they receive other compensation in the form of free housing, a furnishing allowance and subsidised meals.
bq. Sylvia Sethi, another Swede, says: "We live very well. We have a nice guest house. It's better than we thought before I came here."
If I was in my 20's, that would be a great way to spend a year... Very cool!
Posted by DaveH at November 25, 2004 8:50 PM