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also hey you know what, if abroad doesn't work out, do your level best to build a life you can be proud of here. I mean this with all due sincerity towards someone I certainly don't know, Good luck in whatever your endeavours may be.
Thanks for not being the usual troll, meaningful responses always are more fruitful. Also yes, I suppose going to the UK with eyes open is the best course. As it stands time will tell if I can pull this off. Though, I am curious on how you've managed to pull it off in the U.K (to absolutely nobody's surprise).
I am currently based in the UK, and I just wanted to make sure you were going in with eyes open. Keep an eye on the changing landscape, especially re: immigration policy, because that has been, and is likely to continue to be, changing very much over here. As for what you said about wanting to go abroad to make the most of the chances that your combo of brains (to the extent you have that) + privilege (to the extent you have that) will allow you to access, that's also a perfectly valid point (call me biased, but that was very much part of my reasoning as well to move to the UK five years ago, and I practically haven't regretted it at all, except for about an hour of madness once when I dislocated my knee and was having lots of difficulties navigating the British emergency services system, and even that regret vanished later). All the best.
In part it is from ease of common law jurisdiction that I would enjoy having done my undergrad in India. Alternatives like the USA are so actively hostile right now that I'm at odds with considering (I acknowledge that the UK is no snowflake either, it however a matter of relative comparison). I would want to consider the EU but I know that short of say C1 levels of native language fluency I will achieve nothing, so overall I'm inclined for the UK, notwithstanding the challenges I'd face there (which is part and parcel for anybody wanting to go abroad in this climate).
If you are asking why abroad ?, that should be self explanatory. I was born lucky to afford such affluence and I desire to not rot my life away in whatever this country is.
Hope that helps.
(please hold back on the LLM is useless talk, I don't want to be a solicitor or anything like that).
I don't have the credentials for Oxbridge/LSE kinds of universities but say something like Kings College London etc. I'm wondering if this plan is feasible ?. I require no loan of the sort to fund my studies so debt is not a concern, my main concern once I go would be doing everything humanely possible to not come back.
Though if I must, I've realised that policy firms do give preferential treatments to these degrees, so thats a plus for what its worth but one I'm not interested in until I'm absolutely forced to return.
I'm currently spending all my time building a writing portfolio to express interest and competence in my niche (tech law).
I'm here so that people from more experience and seniority, or if luck has it those who paved similar routes can advise me on the feasibility of such a plan.
Notwithstanding the visa, job shitshow that the global economy is coming to, I'm otherwise seeking an assessment if the plan I've laid out for the next 5-6 years makes sense for my specific ambitions.
If you made it till here, thank you :).