So, I am a software engineer working remotely for a US company earning 70,000 USD in India. I get to live close to my parents and friends, well whatever friends that didn't choose to leave for the US. I am fairly content with my life here. Although I contemplate if I'll be better off in the US.

In the last couple of years folks from my friend circle are either getting married and settling down or moving abroad for studies. I'm gay, so I don't see myself marrying anytime soon. But I contemplate if I should consider moving abroad. I have lived in the West for a year in Boston and I didn't particularly like it much. So I'm mostly comparing the two options only from a financial standpoint.

Would you advice me to pursue masters abroad and get a high paying like 200K salary in US or is my current life a better option?

Edit: Wow, I had no idea so many of you would chime in your thoughts. Thank you. I would've added some more context in hindsight

• Am 27, from an IIT. 4 years of experience.

• My qualms with the US lifestyle was that it felt too monotonous and a kind of good immigrant prison where you live in the constant threat of being deported if you lose your job. Most Indians never mingled on any meaningful way with other communities and stayed in their man caves visiting national parks and doing solo activities like biking and hiking. Part of it felt sad to me.

• I didn't find my dating experience significantly improve while in the US. Maybe you had a different exp but as a gay man I found the community in the US to also be as horny, desperate, commitment-phobic and mentally unwell as I did in India. Sorry for the shaming, but in fact as a brown guy it was harder to find dates in the US.

• Pollution and scenic weather, etc probably will add few years to my life but I feel I get used to these things very quickly and they don't seem as amazing in some time.

• Therefore I am not super enthusiastic about the non-financial reasons of moving to the US. The plan is to move to the US, get a high paying job, live conservatively, save 50%, return India with crores and then live very comfortably here in India getting a house and invest, etc. But the cost is 5 years of life, possibility of decreasing value of savings because of inflation, and the likelihood of not having a solid friend circle either in India or US. This is my major point of confusion.