Indian-origin Truck Driver Buys 5-bedroom House Worth Rs 2 Crore In US. Internet Reacts – News18

Buying one’s own house in the United States has long been considered a dream for many. Considering the relatively high prices and interest rates, it is more like a daydream for renters. However, an Indian truck driver made it happen, making people compare life in the US and India.

Shared on the X handle of AvgIndianObserver, the video features the Indian truck driver in front of his newly purchased property. Located in an urban residential neighbourhood, the house has five bedrooms and costs around Rs 2 crore in Indian currency.

That’s not it. The Indian-origin man also has a Jeep Compass parked in his garage. Originally shared by a travel vlogger last year, the video has resurfaced on the internet, going viral once again.

“A Truck driver in the USA has a Jeep Compass in his garage while in India some IIT/IIM graduate (with the help of his generation wealth) and working 9 to 9 will be hardly able to afford a decent 3 bhk in Noida in 2024. Biggest lie ever told was “life is easy in India,” the X user wrote in the caption.

Reacting to it, social media users got into a major discussion on housing in the US. While some argued why it is easier to buy a home in a foreign land than in India, others spoke about the higher income levels of an average truck driver in the US.

A user wrote, “These are wooden houses in USA, not bricks and concrete houses like in India. Wooden houses are build in 4-5 months. It’s almost like plug and play. Land in USA costs 1 dollar per square feet, that is 83 rupees per square feet. USA has more land and less people.”

“Land is cheaper in the US than in India,” another one commented.

A user compared the property in the US and in India, stating that purchasing a house in the suburb of a service industry metropolitan is as hard in the US as in India. “You will not even get a studio in Seattle or San Francisco suburb for Rs 4 crore,” the comment read.

Another of the comments highlighted that an average truck driver in the US earns around 80,000 USD, which translates to Rs 60–70 lakhs in India.

With such diverse reactions, the post has amassed over 7,00,000 views on the microblogging platform.