Agreed, it is his decision and your optionBBCWatcher wrote:So how about we present all options, then we let Venka81 decide what he/she and his/her in-laws want to do? Let's skip the pungent aroma of racial prejudice wafting through this forum while we're at it.
+1sundaymorningstaple wrote:I tend agree with the majority here as I am also married to an Indian, and my daughter is also married to an Indian so you might say I've have a inside track to the way that they think (but would have had, in any case, after being on this board for over a decade. Certain traits are easy to spot
I lived in Chicago for a period of time, yes.sundaymorningstaple wrote:By the way, are you from chi town, perchance?
I be damned, Venka - who's in laws are coming from India to have a Spanish connection, and need a Visa in advance.BBCWatcher wrote:For the record, there is no evidence to date of Venka81's gender, national origin, ethnicity, income, wealth, or whether he/she has children or a spouse in Singapore. "Venka" happens to be a female first name in the Esperanto language, so Venka81's user name doesn't even provide any reliable clues.
Apart from the fact my gut feeling says Venka is a male, other points are on the mark. Especially the aboveJR8 wrote:- Do such family charabanc's not have jobs, friends, local activities etc such that being dumped in some foreign soulless ghetto across the border in JB would be preferable to simply being left in peace back home?
It's a public forum. If one thinks the proposed options are of a questionable value why s/he should shut up and say nothing?*** More-over, such criticism may provide valuable perspective that otherwise could be missed.BBCWatcher wrote:I find it "incredible" that I'm being criticized at all for presentation of an option on the basis that Venka81's in-laws are from India and all Indians act the same certain way in these circumstances.
And accommodation will come for free I guess, so the tickets to JB from India and daily costs of JB-SG commuting? We are talking about 2 weeks, not a short meeting to see somebody's face. They unlikely need the later having seen their FiL only few months back.BBCWatcher wrote:It's very simple. A bus ride from Singapore to Johor Bahru is a lot shorter and less expensive than a multi hour plane ride from Singapore to any point in India.
We have zero information on Venka81's (or his/her in-laws') income, wealth, or how they value their time together or their travel time. However, we do know, with absolute unyielding certainty, that Johor Bahru is closer in both time and distance to Singapore than every geographic point in India is.x9200 wrote:And accommodation will come for free I guess....
And all flights always operate on time, and there are no traffic jams to/from airports?sundaymorningstaple wrote:Oh, have you every been caught in a holiday traffic jam....
So if we know nothing how can you claim it as less expensive? Or you just wanted to say travelling to JB from SG is less expensive than from SG to India? That would be one revelation certainly worth to mention.BBCWatcher wrote:We have zero information on Venka81's (or his/her in-laws') income, wealth, or how they value their time together or their travel time. However, we do know, with absolute unyielding certainty, that Johor Bahru is closer in both time and distance to Singapore than every geographic point in India is.x9200 wrote:And accommodation will come for free I guess....
It's a possible option. Now that Venka81 knows about that option, let Venka81 decide for him/herself. Good grief.
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