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Salaries are increasing in India, partly due to inflation, but

>> with equivalent quality of life

I seriously doubt that.Visiting is different, it is not as rosy when you have to go through it everyday. Regular travel to India is expensive, may be you need to ease up on it.

Lot of things that are easily available in the US/Canada like good public parks/library, national parks, outdoors, simply do not exist in these cities or are not easily accessible. If you value those things.

>> but if I lived a good healthy (mental and physical) life the amount of money saved will drop.

I think there is some disconnect here. If you are healthy, you will be more productive, less medical expenses - how will it result in less savings ?

Can you elaborate on the weather, what is so brutal about it ?