{"id":982208,"date":"2025-12-27T08:02:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T02:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=982208"},"modified":"2025-12-27T08:47:39","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T03:17:39","slug":"nyc-phone-bills-cost-600-nris-post-sparks-affordability-comparison-between-india-and-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/27\/nyc-phone-bills-cost-600-nris-post-sparks-affordability-comparison-between-india-and-us\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018NYC phone bills cost $600\u2019: NRI\u2019s post sparks affordability comparison between India and US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A social media post by an NRI has gone viral after he recounted his friend\u2019s return to India following an eight-year stay abroad, drawing widespread attention to the country\u2019s rapid growth and relative affordability compared with life in the US. <\/p>\n<p>The post, shared on X by a man named Alok Jain, recounted how his friend was struck by the \u201cenergy\u201d and pace of development across Indian cities, but his reaction to the cost of everyday services provoked the most online discussion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A social media post by an NRI has gone viral after he recounted his friend\u2019s return to India following an eight-year stay abroad, drawing widespread attention to the country\u2019s rapid growth and relative affordability compared with life in the US. The post, shared on X by a man named Alok Jain, recounted how his friend was struck by the \u201cenergy\u201d and pace of development across Indian cities, but his reaction to the cost of everyday services provoked the most online discussion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,64,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-982208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=982208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=982208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=982208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=982208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}