They said early on in this season that she lived in India for a year before deciding to move there permanently to be with TJ. Did people not see where she said that the things she chose for the apartment construction were not what she picked out before she left? Why is everyone saying she should have researched the culture? I’m pretty sure living there for a year can equal to doing some research on the internet.
I don’t understand your point.
Afaik, she told TJ how she wanted her apartment to be. Understandably, TJ took care of it. Then she arrived and saw it for the first time.
How does maybe choosing colors, mouldings and such in a catalog familiarise you with how a household is run, what they expect from you, what the life of a typical woman in their community is, … ?
Living there for a year should have helped her get familiarised with many things that seemed to be a problem: clothes, craftmanship, diets, how many people actually speak English, … apparently she lived like a tourist, I imagine?