Should You Move Back to Guyana? My Truth

Should you move back to Guyana? The government is running job fairs in New York and Toronto to attract skilled diaspora professionals. I moved back 3.5 years ago, after 10 years in Australia, and I want to have an honest, heart to heart conversation about what it’s really like. We go through the DPI article, the salary math nobody talks about, why there’s no Stripe in Guyana, and why I think we should fix the product before we market it. I want you to come back. I just want you to come back with your eyes open. Are you in the diaspora thinking about moving back? Tell me in the comments what’s holding you back, or what made you do it. I read every one. 📩 I do 1-on-1 consults for people in the diaspora planning to move back, retire, or start a business in Guyana: https://calendly.com/alex-power/business-ideas-strategy-with-alex-power Chapters 0:00 A place called Guyana 0:13 Should you move back? 0:19 The government’s diaspora job fairs 2:16 Guyana’s biggest problem: capacity 3:32 The questions I ask everyone who wants to move back 4:41 Going through the article 5:27 The pay contradiction 6:27 90% of us live on a sliver of land 8:14 Why payment rails matter 9:48 Why I moved back 11:29 What I tell my brother 12:50 Life here is an action movie 14:21 The sales pitch of sales pitches 15:56 So, should you move back? Sources DPI article: dpi.gov.gy/guyana-intensifies-efforts-to-attract-skilled-diaspora-professionals US civil engineer pay: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS May 2025 Average Guyanese salary: Bureau of Statistics, Guyana Labour Force Survey Q4 2025 Exchange rate: Bank of Guyana Emigration of university graduates: World Bank (Docquier, Lowell & Marfouk) Coastal population: U.S. Library of Congress, Guyana: A Country Study Stripe availability: stripe.com/global Australian engineer pay: Jobs and Skills Australia #Guyana #GuyaneseDiaspora #MovingBackToGuyana