Returning to India after years in the US

We went to a party at the home of Ranvir and his wife, also an expat family in New Delhi (although he was in India for the first 20 years of his life, and his Indian-origin wife grew up in the US.) We chatted with others at the party; most of them expats, or Indians that have returned from abroad. There appears to be a growing number of Indians returning to India after years and years in the US. Opportunities here are on the rise; while my US friends and family can attest to the limited growth of jobs in the US. One of the guests at the party said that his parents had been petitioning him to come back for a long time. Years ago, he said he did not want to come back if he had to bring with him containers of stuff unattainable in India, like zip lock bags. Now, he concluded, everything is available in India, and so he was amenable to returning. (A number of things are still unattainable or dauntingly expensive….but I guess from his comment that much less was available, a decade ago…) As I scan the crowd at IBM Research, I am surmising that there is also a critical age factor for the children of returning Indians. If someone has stayed in the US until kids reach their teen years, I am guessing it gets harder and less likely that parents will return. Most of the returnees have small children that can more readily adjust to the transition.