Re: Salaam need advice about moving back to pakistan
Why is everyone bashing Pakistanis over here? Bashing Pakistan, that’s fair, but there’s nothing wrong with the people. And no not everyone who goes to English Medium schools gets into orgies and booze parties. Where do guys hear these stories? I live here, am middle class, and I don’t have any friends who booze or sleep around.
The school I went to for A’levels had a lot of kids from Defence(that’s not where the Middle Class lives) and not many of them were boozing, and even fewer had slept with someone they weren’t married to.
Or it’s Karachi, we’re just too uptight, frigid. Who knows what happens up North under those Shareef brothers.
I’d say homesick will have less worries in this particular area of his kids lives, if he chooses to live somewhere that’s not too posh and sends his kids to decent but not too posh schools.
Re: Salaam need advice about moving back to pakistan
I can’t speak for others but I didn’t mean to bash Pakistanis. My point was simply that immoral actions happen in Pakistan as well. Similarly, high school in the US is not like American Pie. There are plenty of people who don’t sleep around or get wasted every weekend.
OP is painting Pakistan as a cultural paradise and the population of the US as lifeless drones chasing the dollar.
Re: Salaam need advice about moving back to pakistan
At the end of the day, it’s your call, homesick. You and your wife are both willing to move and your kids are too young to be affected by the move (in terms of education etc) so go ahead with it if that’s what you want right now. What people are basically saying is that you should be prepared to be disappointed. It mightn’t work out for you, you may end up getting sick of the place within a year. But you might be satisfied for the most part, depending on the job prospects, the living conditions, the security situation and so on. I’m assuming you’re an American citizen so you’ll always have the choice of coming back and again it’s better to move around when your kids are young.
Re: Salaam need advice about moving back to pakistan
On anothe note you’re young (assuming) and the kids are young. Might as well do it now than put it off and they’ll be old enough to possibly not want to go.
Re: Salaam need advice about moving back to pakistan
Looks like I opened up a can of worms…Amazing how different people view the same thing so differently..I came to the forum confused and am still confused…most of the feed back is negative, but as someone said, it’s something I might have to get out of my system. If i do go it will be either Gujranwala or Islamabad..Gujranwala cause some family is there..Islamabad because of safety, cleanliness, more international, roads etc. Some brothers have shared their opinion based on Karachi, which is probably the worst place to be right now. I did not find GUJ or Isl to be nearly as bad in terms of security etc. I thought the same way before actually visiting and seeing the people living their lives normally for the most part. In Guj and Islamabad many people told me they were not interested in going abroad as they were more interested in establishing themselves in Pakistan. My wife’s cousins are educated and have good jobs and never once asked me about USA; they actually encourage me to consider moving back.
I did get what you would call a “descent” job offer in Islamabad. I turned it down, but still have the option of taking it as it is quite a unique position which I know they will not be able to fill any time soon. Do you recommend I go visit Islamabad and this job site to get a feel of things?
Re: Salaam need advice about moving back to pakistan
Yes, definitely go and visit to get a feel for how life is there. Though you won’t really know until you live there for a while, it will at least give you some idea.
Re: Salaam need advice about moving back to pakistan
I don’t think any one of us is discouraging you from relocating to Pakistan - if it’s what you want to do, then honestly good luck and hope it works out for the best.
But just go with open eyes and remember the responsibility for a better upbringing and maintaining of religious and cultural values is yours and your wife’s, not the country’s.
Re: Salaam need advice about moving back to pakistan
Yup the can of worms buddy, didn’t you heard about gs ladies before? oh well..
Pakistan can be good or bad depends on the person precisely
Instead of looking for job better concentrate on setting up a business
Gujranwala is a great lively city, actually industry is pretty much booming their - have a look. plenty of opportunities
Its great of you turning down the decent job offer from ISB, i have couple of over half million a month lined up but they always landed in garbage can.
Schools are great & plenty of family activities around the corner.
By the way you started the thread at the wrong forum, this forum have over 90% of people living in abroad who never thought even in their dreams about living in Pakistan so harsh replies were expected because they also need to justify living in US (don’t kill me ladies)
“wesey bi Pakistani auruten are more happy to live in west for some reasons maybe azaadi of certain scale which they can only envy in Pak”
