India, Oct. 5 -- Living abroad often comes with the promise of better opportunities and financial growth, but staying thousands of kilometres away from family can also mean missing important moments back home. An Indian man living in Canada captured this dilemma in a video before revealing that he had decided not to let distance keep him away from a special family occasion.

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Pratik Chaudhary shared the video on Instagram, where he initially spoke about the disappointment of potentially missing the housewarming ceremony of his family's new home in India.

"We bought a new house in India, and there is a puja (housewarming...