For Indians living abroad: visits home, PR dates and the people you miss
Living abroad often means seeing your parents a few days a year. At that pace, the days you have left together can be counted, and they're often fewer than you'd guess.
What Indians living abroad often put off
- Living abroad: the days with your parents you have leftIf you live abroad and see your parents a few days a year, count the days together you have left, and what one more visit a year would add.
- PR and citizenship timeline: when you can apply abroadSee when you can apply for Canadian citizenship, UK settlement, a German settlement permit, Australian or US citizenship, from your own dates.
- How many days you have left with your parentsCount the days together at your current pace, and how many more your plan would add. Gentle maths, from Tim Urban's The Tail End.
- How much time you have left with your grandparentsCount the days together with your grandparents at your current pace, and how many more your plan would add.
- Call your brother, sister or cousins: how much it weighs on youWeigh how much staying close to your brother, sister or cousins matters to you, and send one easy message today.
- Reconnect with an old friend: how much it weighs on youWeigh how much a friendship you've let drift matters to you, and find one easy first message to send today.
- Free health check-up in India at 30 and overIndia screens everyone 30 and over for blood pressure, diabetes and three common cancers for free. See how long it's been since your last check-up.
- Strength training after 30: the sessions you've missedAfter 30, muscle mass drops by about 3% to 8% a decade. WHO suggests strength work 2 days a week. See the sessions you've missed since you meant to start.
- Sort out your life paperwork: a will, nominees and important papersThe paperwork everyone puts off: a will, nominees on your accounts, and knowing where important papers are. Weigh it and take one small step.
- What putting off a daily quiet practice costs youCount the hours of prayer, meditation or journaling you've missed against the time you planned.
- The trip you keep putting off: how many have slipped byCount the trips that didn't happen while you waited, with friends, your partner, your parents or on your own, and pick the next one.
Everyone's basics
Health, money and the people you love, at every age.
- Sleep debt: how many hours of sleep you've missedCount the hours of sleep you've missed against your aim, and the 7 or more hours a night that sleep doctors say adults need.
- What putting off exercise costs you, in hoursSee the hours of movement you've missed against your own weekly aim, and WHO's 150 minutes a week.
- Screen time calculator: your phone hours in days a yearTurn your daily phone hours into full days a year, and see how many days your own aim would give back.
- What waiting to start saving costs youSee what a late start costs your own monthly saving plan, in today's money after tax, on low, middle and high growth paths.
- Talk to someone about how you feel: free help in India (Tele-MANAS 14416)If you've been meaning to talk to someone about how you feel, India's free Tele-MANAS helpline is on 14416, any time. Weigh how much it's been on your mind.
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Questions people ask
Is this telling me to move back?
No. We show what the time apart adds up to, so you can plan visits on purpose. Where you live is your choice.
Where do my answers go?
Nowhere. They stay in the link on your phone, like every answer on this site. Only people you share the link with can see them.
Source
Tim Urban, The Tail End (2015): An idea, not data. The numbers come from your answers and the averages below.
We show what waiting costs on your own plans. We never tell you what to buy or invest in.