Planning: The decision

Even though R2I was in the back of my mind for a year, the real decision (the tipping point so to say ...) was made in Dec 2012. The plan was to move to Chennai

Once the decision was made i had to make the following major decisions

1) House -- To Sell or Rent
2) Contents of the house --- Sell or take to India
3) Buy things for India ---
3) Job --- what to do

House: Sell or Rent

I think i personally spent very less time of this, i made the decision to rent the house. The reasoning was tough real estate market, the money i had to spend to get it sold, the idea of having rental income pay for mortgage was alluring (precedence of friends having done that helped)

Final Decision: Rent

Take things to India: To container or not

Here my friends experience helped, he was moving in feb 2012 and had got himself a 20' container. I did a few back of the envelope calculation about buying things in India. The cost of electronics in India seemed high plus my wife and I (mostly my wife) had spent a good number of years accumulating stuff (kinda sorta labor of love) + we would have got pennies (literally) if we proceeded to sell them.

Final Decision: 20' foot container

Buying things for India: Will talk about this later

Job: Will talk about this later