You uber from the airport to your new home. The rent is beyond belief, but so is your salary. Your driver grew up in the city but the rent forced him to move out. He asks if you work in tech. You say yes, and the conversation stops.
You stare out the window and start counting all the Indian restaurants. You stop after the third Chaat House. It’s 3 am when you enter your new home. Your flatmates are huddled around a dimly lit table, the silence interrupted only by the click-click of Poker chips.
It’s so silent at night, you have a hard time falling asleep.
You wake up at noon the next day and nearly call out to your mom to make some chai. Your fridge is empty and the lone saucepan is covered in dust, so you order tea at the coffee shop across the street. They hand you warm water with a teabag in it.
Your office is amazing. Co-workers come up to you and tell you they look forward to working with you. After the fourth Michael, you stop trying to remember their names. There are a lot of Asians (you’ll learn soon that Indians aren’t counted among Asians) and most have American accents. You realize the only other Indian guy in the office doesn’t speak Hindi.
You meet more people at lunch. They ask you about your weekend, so you ask them about theirs. They mention Tahoe and Napa; you nod along, unsure if they are places or music festivals. The food is mostly non-vegetarian, so you just eat the salad. It’s bland but you’re just happy to be here.
Conversations are short because you’re tired of repeating yourself.
You try to call your parents and friends back in India every day. Your best friend makes fun of you for rolling your Rs. You compensate by calling him behenchod and immediately feel dirty saying it. Every time you talk, you have fewer things to say. Your friend forwards you a racist joke and you stop talking.
You fill your weekends with work because you’re really good at it.
You bond with a co-worker over immigrant problems. She’s concerned about her parents living alone. You realize you haven’t called yours in two weeks. She invites you to a new year’s party. Everyone is in suits and you show up in a hoodie, but no one seems to care. You get high for the first time and dance with her. You later ask her to a movie, but she invites her friends.
Your flatmate makes you a dating profile. Most matches never reply. As you complete a year at work, you start getting recruiter emails, which you delete without reading.
At the office holiday party, she’s talking to a co-worker the entire night. Someone tells you they hooked-up. You don’t know what that means yet, but you’re heartbroken.
You don’t work weekends anymore. The year-end review is good, but your manager thinks you could do better. The small raise is enough to make your parents happy, but you know how much your friend at Uber is making. You start reading recruiter emails again.
Your manager is leaving the company, but tells you not to be alarmed. The CEO mentions cost-cutting at the All Hands but assures that all the numbers are up and to the right. You talk to your friend at Uber. He tells you he’s quitting to do his own startup in India.
This time the salad is so bland you take a bite of the chicken for the first time
You would be happier if you stayed in India. By leaving India, you hurt the Western country you immigrate to, and also hurt yourself as well as the country you left.
Ryder Sullivan
Cry more pooboy, should have stayed in your own shithole.
Eli Wilson
>You fill your weekends with work because you’re really good at it. this is how I knew this story was fake
Jordan Richardson
Well its from his opinion little does he know the white guy coming in Monday curses him out because he has to spend the day fixing his code.
Daniel Russell
at least you have a job and people to talk to. some of use don't even have that...some of use live in total isolation and watch the best years of our lives pass without achieving anything other than browsing the internet and disappointing everyone around you.. All while waking up in the morning wondering if youll have the strength of mind to make it to the next year.
Michael Martinez
You could you know do something with your life. I mean fuck just become a drifter if you don't want to do anything.
Cooper Morris
>The rent is beyond belief, but so is your salary kind of negates any pity seeking, don't you think?
Isaac Flores
I'm sorry to hear that Raji. Western tech culture is very vapid and dehumanizing. I hope you find something more fulfilling in life.
Lucas Garcia
Former drifter here. Video games are so good now and there are so many of them
Samuel Nguyen
Eh maybe I am just different but I prefer human interaction.
Bentley Collins
In The
Justin Allen
>Brags about salary >Has roommates
Aiden Johnson
how did he hurt it? born here in the us. SPF 30 or higher needed. if he's cool and we meet i'll make him dinner and maybe we'll have things in common we can talk about that we actually care about. maybe he'll show me something with curry that I enjoy. then i can make that for my friends and family that will enjoy it as well. then we can invest in an opportunity together. then we both retire in an area with a preferred climate with our spouses and hang out doing things we enjoy. i don't see the harm if he's not a dick.
Christopher Wood
Poos are used to squatting in a 1 bedroom 5 person full every night. The lingering smell of unwashed assholes makes for interesting conversation.
Ian Harris
You're a parasite living in someone else's home and you have to go back.
Jordan Lee
Fuck you slave
Aiden Cooper
I don't care about your gay problems.
Easton Nguyen
get to the part where you kill yourself, i haven't all night...
Jaxson Adams
wow, an actual native american on Jow Forums? what tribal heritage?
Logan Morgan
I'm a native american. Blackfoot tribe. What now, faggot. Get out of my country.
John Evans
Every time is see a poo family I want to dash their baby’s head against the curb and throw their daughters under an oncoming bus. Get the fuck out or die, poo.
Camden Powell
Oh the world would be so much better if we could just make every if/then/else and sql statement disappear
Camden Johnson
>You would be happier if you stayed in India
at least he has somewhere to go back to. imagine feeling homesick in your own goddamned country.
OP, i know those feels but i just can't feel that sorry for you. you came here for easy money.
Justin Lopez
you never had a country
Blake Baker
Nice try poo.
> with work because you’re really good at it.
Sure.
Landon Jones
100/10, made me spill my tea.
Ryder Sullivan
So did you go back or are you the friend who forwarded the racist stuff?
Ryder Murphy
I am always interested in how other people honestly view something like the USA from unique and honest perspective. This seems like a no-bullshit account with a certain style. Sorry it wasn't perfect, but California and by extension Silicone valley will steal the soul from you.
Levi Cook
You abandoned your home, family, friends, culture, and country... ...just so you could experience the life you saw in Hollywood movies. Go back. Find a good Indian wife. Have children. Love and live happy with family, even if poor. Live and die happy in YOUR country. Stop falling for the kike fairy tales. The Jews brainwashed you with shows like Big Bang Theory. Now you know the truth. Good luck, poo.
I'm sure that's what they said to us before our ancestors got onto a boat.
David Morgan
P.S. You thought you would get to fuck pic related in California. Now you know Poos are abhorrent to western women. >”Don’t go chasing waterfalls.” >”Please stick to the Rivers and Lakes that you’re used to.” - Roger
>This seems like a no-bullshit account with a certain style.
i do appreciate OP's story, or really any candid perspective on modern life. hard to feel sympathetic though.
Hudson Ross
>The Jews brainwashed you with shows like Big Bang Theory. those are geniuses with jobs as scientists living in rented properties with roomies. the fucking girl who isn't a genius is living solo. i'm not a genius and I desire my life more than theirs. the indian guy has the hardest time finding a mate to the point where he has emasculated himself and fancies a small dog. not sure how that is jewish brainwashing. if it is then we have nothing to worry about
Isaac Davis
It doesn't matter because plenty of Hollywood movies and white liberals will tell you (well lie to you) the money is all worth it - and it's other people's fault you can't fit in.
Anyway 2 or 3 generations working in American tech and your entire lineage will be bleached and burgerized, and your spoiled lazy grand children will eat Indian food once and awhile and forget about your culture and the simple pleasures of your country and people and replace them with strip malls and reality TV.
Good trade-off, no?
Mason Thompson
>ReuZTExT >reused text So cancerous even the spook algos warn us.
Luis Rodriguez
No. American settlers were Europeans discovering and conquering a new land. That’s different. OP situation is like when I went to China for work. I made a shit ton of money, but I couldn’t speak chink, and despite fucking a few chinks, we couldn’t connect on a deep level due to cultural differences. I felt very alone. OP needs to stop chasing Hollywood fantasies, and stick to reality. He’s a poo. A poo belongs in the toilet; India. India is where his heart belongs.
Sebastian Baker
No, because we weren't going somewhere with people there who could force us to do things. We were going to a place where we could do whatever we wanted, for better or for worse.
Jaxson Cox
Cool Story Award
Congratulations, (You)
Easton Sanchez
I feel this way when I see them clogging our national parks. They're easily the worst national park tourists of them all, worse than spics, niggers, and white trash combined.
Brandon Foster
Oh boy! You just spewed out bullshit kike brainwashing. Get real. Have you ever met a real life theoretical physicist? I have. They’re usually autistic retards with bad teeth, no one likes them, and they live with mom. Stop watching tv, retard.
Gavin Martin
>hard to feel sympathetic though. I agree. Its lots like this place. Everyone tells you to leave, and that it will ruin you...but we stay. California is similar. It will ruin you if you are in the tech industry. I am sure there are great places, but not in any of the shithole cities.
Jace Sanders
she is perf
Evan Collins
go BACK
Chase Edwards
You touched my heart brather.
Michael Jenkins
>and that it will ruin you...but we stay
i'm not ruined, this place has greatly widened my perspective and given me a view into things that i wouldn't have had otherwise.
even though whoever wrote the story in the OP struggles with isolation and social apathy, they're doing it on our dime, in our country, to the tune of at least six figures a year. so fuck them.
Michael Morris
>Western tech culture is vapid Found the faggot who conveniently ignores tech suicide culture in China. Jesus christ these self-hating dumbfucks are poison.
Ryder Martinez
Can you prove you came from a land where your ethnic people were the indigenous natives? Yes? Now consider my people were here tens of thousands of years before your tribe migrated to that place.
Kill yourself, infidel.
Oliver Gutierrez
That's rich coming from cumskins who wipe their assets with a fucking piece of paper
Leo Watson
One time in our office we had a wowdee (that's what we called injuns cuz they always looked at shit and said wowdee, wowduh, okayduh, yes dee) who smelled like poopy (shocking) and it was so disgusting in the conference room we were in my coworker started dry heaving. He went to HR after and bitched the wowdee brown mound out, who was told to shower for work and be considerate of co workers and how smells are offensive.
I fucking hate you wowdee brown mounds. You're worthless at what you do, smell like dookie and say stupid shit like FOR THE SAME. Fucking get gassed hard and fast.
Daniel Moore
>Good trade-off, no? my family before me ate halusky. not because they enjoyed it. because they were fucking poor. fuck race and fuck culture man. why the hell would my mother and father want hold on to what they had to eat instead of embracing what they wanted to eat? if you're going to make a stance and dig in your heels about your culture then you're no different than the people who want multiculturalism. this is the US. You can ignore reality TV like the majority. if you want to throw some curry into fucking nachos then do it. if you refuse to enjoy nachos because your culture dictates you must eat curry and rice then you've got some problems with yourself you should address especially if you'd rather eat fucking nachos.
Ryder Morris
I'm a native american, street shitting dravidian mongrel.
Jayden Lopez
Go to sleep tonight knowing you're hated by every country in the world.
Brandon Jones
i literally have the same tanlines on my feet and everyone thinks i am a fucking monkey
Jayden Powell
POO IN LOO
Jacob Adams
bugman detected
Xavier Smith
>ReuZTExT >Re-Use Text huh
Juan Russell
what country was it?
Adam Powell
I'm sorry, my friend. I am sorry that such a horrid existence is forced upon you, that you and I have to endure such a vapid, hollow, and mindless sort of existence. I am sorry, my friend, for doing this unto you.
