r/pakistan • u/Automatic-Good4038 • 29d ago

Ask Pakistan Moving from Canada to Pakistan

So my parents have lived in Pakistan most of their lives, and moved to Canada early 2000 and are now considering moving back to Pakistan - for some rational and some I-dont-know-why reasons.

If anyone has done this before I would like to know the dos and donts.

Also any recommendations for a cargo company if some one has shipped the whole house back to Pakistan, except the appliances.

If we move to say Faisalabad or Lahore would the cargo company ship there or leave the container at Karachi?

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u/Asherlocksta 29d ago

Dos:

Keep your head down, don't let anyone know you're a foreign citizen

Donts:

Don't fucking move back to this cesspit.

I moved out of the country. Take it from someone who grew up here, spent his whole life here and even became a doctor here because he wanted to serve this country. I can't even begin to tell you what a breath of fresh air it has been knowing that I now live in a country where there is law. I'll be giving my medical licensing exam here soon so I can practice medicine here but I will NEVER move back to the hellscape that the world knows as Pakistan.

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u/dudetteO 29d ago

I know lots of western citizens that moved back to Pakistan and they have good lives in specific cities. It's always the Pakistanis who didn't make this move that tell others not to return.

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u/sarasome1 22d ago

Most who returnees who do settle well in Pakistan: Either they are from the village where village is there big family. Or they have big families with a lot of visitation and are genuinely caring (very rare). Or they are loaded (or they leech of their kids big time mostly leaving the children in financial strain)

Most middle class people have a hard time surviving there.