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I've developed breathing and stomach problems living in Delhi the last 10 years. My wife now has asthma. I've also developed severe allergies. Things have beco

I've developed breathing and stomach problems living in Delhi the last 10 years. My wife now has asthma. I've also developed severe allergies. Things have become particularly bad in the last 5 years. Come winters, the sky isn't visible in Delhi for weeks. At the height of the crop-burning season (why they do it, I have no idea), there was literally smoke inside my house. India's biggest cities are practically unlivable. Public transport is abysmal, traffic is terrible, and the pollution keeps getting worse. Nearly all the smart people I know who can afford to emigrate have already emigrated, or plan to. India needs to control its pollution and traffic problems otherwise there will be yet another wave of brain drain and the beneficiaries will be countries like Canada and Australia

kamaal 8y ago
>>My wife now has asthma. Well the bad news, Asthma like diseases are like the tip of the Ice Berg. The next set of life style diseases like Diabetes and Thyroid Malfunction are going to be worse. There is already a growing trend of Thyroid Malfunction among women in Bangalore. >>At the height of the crop-burning season (why they do it, I have no idea), The crop waste after they harvest is expensive to dispose off, and decays slow. All options getting rid of them are expensive or too slow. Plus they don't compost because fertilizers are cheap, apparently. >>India's biggest cities are practically unlivable. Public transport is abysmal, traffic is terrible, and the pollution keeps getting worse. I can assure you there is no respite. We are only in the beginning of what are huge urbanization trends. Talking to my relatives who stay around districts around Bangalore, I don't know a single young nephew/niece/cousin who doesn't want to come to Bangalore. Because Bangalore is where good tuition classes, jobs and other stuff is. >>India needs to control its pollution and traffic problems otherwise there will be yet another wave of brain drain and the beneficiaries will be countries like Canada and Australia More bad news here. Many countries are cracking down on immigration. Thanks to the blatant fraud and abuse our people do here. During a recent H1-B thread on HN someone mentioned India alone files 2.5 times more H1-B applications than all other countries combined and the phenomenon of 'Principal Engineers' who can't code a shell script. With the growth of right wing politics and nationalists trends in the west, immigration is no longer an easy deal.

kamaal 8y ago

>>My wife now has asthma. Well the bad news, Asthma like diseases are like the tip of the Ice Berg. The next set of life style diseases like Diabetes and Thyroid Malfunction are going to be worse. There is already a growing trend of Thyroid Malfunction among women in Bangalore. >>At the height of the crop-burning season (why they do it, I have no idea), The crop waste after they harvest is expensive to dispose off, and decays slow. All options getting rid of them are expensive or too slow. Plus they don't compost because fertilizers are cheap, apparently. >>India's biggest cities are practically unlivable. Public transport is abysmal, traffic is terrible, and the pollution keeps getting worse. I can assure you there is no respite. We are only in the beginning of what are huge urbanization trends. Talking to my relatives who stay around districts around Bangalore, I don't know a single young nephew/niece/cousin who doesn't want to come to Bangalore. Because Bangalore is where good tuition classes, jobs and other stuff is. >>India needs to control its pollution and traffic problems otherwise there will be yet another wave of brain drain and the beneficiaries will be countries like Canada and Australia More bad news here. Many countries are cracking down on immigration. Thanks to the blatant fraud and abuse our people do here. During a recent H1-B thread on HN someone mentioned India alone files 2.5 times more H1-B applications than all other countries combined and the phenomenon of 'Principal Engineers' who can't code a shell script. With the growth of right wing politics and nationalists trends in the west, immigration is no longer an easy deal.