After 2 and half years in Denmark I am making what in my eyes I deem to be a very large move: Hyderabad, India. I will be working for a Danish company but will initially be the only non-Indian in a small office of around 5-10 people. I am moving by myself and with what can be fit into one suitcase and one piece of hand luggage.
I am currently winding down my activities at my current employer (as for this coming Friday, it will be my previous). On Monday the first I will be starting at the new employer’s headquarters in Denmark for 2 days of orientation and then to India via Scotland. In Scotland I will receive further product briefing. By the 6th of February I will be in the Hyderabadi winter, consisting of daytime highs of 30 degress.
I will be living and working in the area known as Banjara Hills. This is supposedly the more affluent part of Hyderabad (a city of over 6 million), but it is said that one is never too far away from poverty in India.
Current pre-travel questions:
• How bad will the diarrhoea be?
• What is cheap and what is expensive in India?
• What will I miss about Denmark (not much at the moment after the coldest winter in 25 years)
• What material is most practical for a summer suit?
o Follow-up question: should one trust GQ or an Indian tailor more?
• How does an India work day progress?
• How was will broadband be?
• Are people going to look at my leather shoes and be like “I can tell those are cow”
o Follow-up question: In a Muslim city in a Hindu country what kind of hide does one use? Horse? Isn’t that expensive?
So yeah, that’s the intro. I hope to return with further thoughts once the journey has begun.
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This blog intends to document my experiences in India, where I will be living from February and 2 years onwards.
Maybe its too late to answer your questions but I can try here.
ReplyDelete1-Only drink bottled water and eat cooked food. Be careful of ice too.
2-500 rupees is cheap these days like for a tshirt, bedsheets-2500 is average and 25000 is expensive.
3-Don't know.Maybe the lack of people here.
4-Don't know but terracot,cotton and silk come up in my mind.By the way, silk is very cheap compared to the west.
5-Indian tailors are very good at making an exact copy of a suit or any other clothes u already have. so have a blast. Where I came from it costed around 250 ruppees to f.eks get pajamas made.
6-Indian work days progress with lots of chai and talk. Hehe not really sure how a co-op environment is.
7-No idea, slow i guess.In Sweden we have 100 up 100 down,its insane.
8-Nope, most leader shoes in India are made of Buffaloes.
9- Buffallo.
Good Luck.