An expatriate is any person living in a different country from where they were born. In common usage, the term is often used in the context of professionals sent abroad by their companies, as opposed to locally hired staff (who can also be foreigners).

Nationwide,between 20,000 to 30,000 expatriates are believed to be working in India. Many foreigners working in India are on assignment with multinational companies from their headquarters. Bangalore was far more attractive and peaceful, and this could have influenced their decision to stay on here.

While most expatriates in Bangalore draw salaries equivalent to their Indian counterparts in the profession, some, especially in the BPO segment, command higher compensation due to their international exposure and language proficiency.

Banaglore's expatriate community has a wide cross section of people, from CEOs of multinational corporations to recent graduates. Some of them can afford very affluent lifestyles, comparable to or even better than that in their home countries

Bangalore ranks highly among the expatriate community. Several expatriates interviewed expressed a marked preference for Bangalore, mainly because of the large expatriate community here and also because of its weather, which does not get extremely hot or cold. Other cities of choice include Pune, New Delhi,Hyderabad and Mumbai.

Bangalore has able to served expatriates in all manners, whether it International food joints like KFC & MC Donalds, or branded clothing like lifestyle, organic vegetable such as Namdharis or hang out places like Coffee days, baristas or Leela coffee house etc,

But mostimportant of all these are education for their children, which Bangalore hasagain proved itself. It has good number of international schools which facilitateexpatriate parents to enroll their kids in them.

International schools like Trio World School meet all the criteria to call itself “Truly International School”. They have international standard and mostly foreign faculties and students from many countries. They have Cambridge curriculum which is followed worldwide, so parents need to worry about transition of their kids’ schooling, when they return back to their country on completion of their project in India.