Idea 362 of 500. Cluster 18: Sri Lankans abroad, both directions
Return-relocation services: the school, the house, the car, the tax, in one package
The mechanism, from the book
1.5 million people abroad who know how rich countries work, and who send home money and little else.
Every idea in cluster 18 uses this mechanism.
A first step
Find five families abroad who say they are thinking of moving back, through a Sri Lankan association or your own contacts, and ask each for their list of worries: school, house, car, tax. Price what you would charge to handle school visits and house viewings for one family, done and reported. One deposit is the proof, and the lists of worries are your service design.
- Who pays first
- A professional couple abroad with children of school age who want to come home but cannot plan the move from where they are.
- What leaves today
- Returning talent often gives up halfway through the paperwork and stays away; a relocation service makes return practical and brings the skills home with the family.
The idea and the mechanism are from the book. The first step was written for this site as a suggestion; if you know a better one, say so.
The test
Does it keep value that now leaves the island, or build the proof that lets somebody else do so?
The only test any idea on this site has to pass. The four rules that go with it are here.
In the book
- Ch. EightWhat It Costs to Go First
What bonds sold to Sri Lankans abroad have and have not done - Ch. SixteenThe Bridge
The institutions that could carry value back
More from cluster 18
- 361A directory of Sri Lankans abroad: who does what, where, and what they will help with, verified
- 363Sri Lanka House in London, Melbourne and Toronto: a shop, a café and a desk, the Colombo model abroad
- 364Money-transfer products that buy a specific thing at home, a course, a machine, a roof, rather than cash
- 365Investment clubs of Sri Lankans abroad that own one business each at home, with a manager on the ground
- 366Import agencies in each city with a Sri Lankan community, stocking Sri Lankan brands and nothing else
- 367A returning-professional registry that hospitals, universities and firms at home can search
Idea 362 of the 500 in the appendix of Why Not Sri Lanka? Every one can be started by one person, one family or one small firm.