Things to know before starting from Chennai to USA

1. First and foremost is to know car driving. Learn car driving at India itself and if possible get an International driving license. Its both time saving and cost effective.
2. Bring with you a flat pin adapter to charge you laptop and mobile. Here the round pin what we use to have doesn't fit into the plug points.
   
3. Keep your email id as short as possible. Here you have to provide your email id for each and every thing and you need to pronounce each and every letter of your email id (eg. In case you have a email id like umamaheswaran@yahoo.com then you have to pronounce like this "U as in umbrella, M as in Mango, A as in Apple, M as in Mango, A as in apple, H as in Henry, E as in Edward, S as in Sam, W as in Whale, A as in Apple, R as in Rock, A as in Apple, N as in Nancy").
4. If you have kids bring along with you all their medical prescriptions, immunization certificates, you need them for school admission and medical checkup.
   
5. It takes a minimum of one month to understand the US accent fully. Get used to US accent by watching some movie or TV shows.
6. Bring along with you, your subject books and technical books. Here books are more expensive.
   
7. Its better to have scanned soft copies of your certificates, passport and visa. Otherwise you have to search for a scanner or fax machine, every time you want to send a copy of them.
8. Switching job is not easy, like uploading resume on naukri.com and getting the interview call next day morning and getting the offer day after. Here some employer has to hold your work permit.
9. Take adequate tablets and medicine for fever, head ache and if you are wearing contact lenses, buy adequate stock at India itself. Here you cant buy lenses without prescription, also they are expensive.
   
10. Learn to cook in case you don't know how to. Indian restaurants may be far from your hotel.
    

Enjoy your trip!